Senator Isaak Kohler shoots and kills Professor Winter in a crowded restaurant, while Winter is dining with the struggling idealistic young lawyer, Felix Spat. Kohler puts up no defense and is sentenced to twenty years. Kohler then gets his daughter Helene to pay the reluctant Spat to reinvestigate the case, on the assumption that Kohler is innocent. The newspapers pick up on this and begin to question whether Kohler was wrongly convicted.
Director
Hans W. Geißendörfer
Maximilian Schell
Isaak Kohler
Thomas Heinze
Felix Spät
Anna Thalbach
Helene Kohler
Hark Bohm
Prof. Adolf Winter
Ulrike Kriener
Ilse Freude
Suzanne von Borsody
Daphne Winter
Martin Semmelrogge
Lucky
Teresa Harder
Giselle
Wilfried Klaus
Gefängniswärter Moser
Mathias Gnädinger
Police Chief
Dietrich Siegl
Dr. Benno
David Ryall
englischer Minister
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