A cabbie picks up the wrong fare—now he's holding a dead man's secrets and every cop's suspicion.
Munich cab driver Herbert Sponer picks up American businessman Jack Mortimer at the train station. Suddenly Mortimer is shot while driving and Sponer has to try to avoid being suspected as the perpetrator.
Acting
Malzacher's sweaty desperation is pure claustrophobia.
Direction
Kehlmann squeezes Hitchcock into a taxi meter.
Director
Michael Kehlmann
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Kehlmann was Austria's TV noir king—this was his third adaptation of a James Hadley Chase novel in five years.
The 88-minute runtime was standard for German TV slots—every second of Sponer's panic had to count.
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