The Last Witness
Der letzte Zeuge
Rating: 6.4 · 1960 · Crime, Drama · Germany · 1 ч 42 мин
Description
Director Wolfgang Staudte who left East Germany in 1953 to make movies in West Germany, takes a few swipes at the West German judicial system in this fairly effective courtroom drama about the murder of a four-month-old baby. Police almost immediately arrest the mother Ingrid who is the mistress of the father, a rich business VIP married to another woman. His position and wealth keep him insulated from suspicion. A hot-shot lawyer has to overcome the unaccountably biased perceptions of the police, the judge, the prosecutor and almost everyone else in the judicial system. The defence lawyer, driven to an extreme, knows he has to find the real killer or his client will be convicted.
Information
- Original title
- Der letzte Zeuge
- Year
- 1960
- Genre
- Crime, Drama
- Country
- Germany
- Runtime
- 1 ч 42 мин
- TMDB
- 6.4
- IMDb
- 6.4
Director
Cast
- Martin Held — Direktor Werner Rameil
- Hanns Lothar — Rechtsanwalt Dr. Fox
- Ellen Schwiers — Ingrid Bernhardy
- Jürgen Goslar — Dr. Heinz Stephan
- Adelheid Seeck — Gerda Rameil
- Werner Hinz — Landgerichtsrat Ricker
- Lore Hartling — Assessorin Ebeling
- Siegfried Wischnewski — Kriminalinspektor Gerhuf
- Harald Juhnke — Kriminalsekretär Wenzel
- Otto Graf — Anwalt Dr. Beyer
- Albert Bessler — Dr. Hollberg
- Lucie Mannheim — Frau Bernhardy
- Hans Hessling — Vorsitzender des Schwurgerichts
- Hellmut Grube — Staatsanwalt Thalmann
- Rudi Schmitt
- Herbert Tiede — Dr. Heinz Stephans Anwalt
- Blandine Ebinger — Gymnastiklehrerin
- Martin Berliner — Beamter beim Nachlassgericht
- Tilly Lauenstein — Aufseherin
- Ursula Diestel