When Kathrin Bahro once again plays babysitter for the neighbors, a thief breaks into the house. Kathrin confronts the intruder, who escapes after a brief struggle. What remains is the dead child. Thanks to Kathrin's drawing skills, the perpetrator is quickly caught. Nine years later, the convict takes part in a Ministry of Justice project - ankle cuffs with acoustic signals are supposed to put the criminal in his place - and has only one thought: revenge...
Acting
Esther Zimmering's haunted, trapped performance.
Direction
Michael Karen's competent TV-movie tension building.
Director
Michael Karen
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This 2003 TV movie shares its title with Clint Eastwood's Oscar-winning western, causing endless confusion in database searches.
The ankle cuff surveillance concept eerily predates real-world electronic monitoring debates by decades, making this oddly prescient.
DE
