The best detective in Germany meets his match—and his ruin.
A detective with the highest clearance rate in the country, gets involved in a case with a young woman arrested for having killed her child. The detective falls under the spell of the young woman.
Acting
Stute's magnetic ambiguity—did she or didn't she? You'll switch sides seven times.
Direction
Fleischmann directs himself into obsession; the meta-layer crackles with uncomfortable intimacy.
Director
Peter Fleischmann
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Frevel arrived as the New German Cinema was collapsing; Fleischmann's TV pivot after this theatrical flop explains its rough-edged ambition.
The title translates to 'Sacrilege' or 'Desecration'—not of the child, but of Lohmann's sacred belief in his own judgment. The real victim is his professional identity.
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