Hinterkaifeck - Die wahre Geschichte hinter Tannöd (2009) [N/A]

Release Date:
November 18, 2009

Original Title:
Hinterkaifeck - Die wahre Geschichte hinter Tannöd

Alternate Titles:
Die wahre Geschichte hinter Tannöd

Genres:
Crime | Documentary | TV Movie

Production Companies:
Securitel
ZDF

Production Countries:
Germany

Ratings / Certifications:
 N/A

Runtime: 45

Still today, people say that during the stormy night from March 31st to April 1st, 1922, the devil had come to Hinterkaifeck. On the farmstead near Schrobenhausen, all 6 inhabitants – 4 Adults and two children – are struck down bestially. The police did not manage to seek out the murderer(s). As the case is still unsolved as of today, the story still lives on in the minds of the people. Motion pictures, theatre plays, and the bestselling novel “Tannöd”, behind all of them stands Hinterkaifeck. Aspiring police investigators and a self-declared “Internet – special commission ‘Hinterkaifeck’” have now once again taken up the trail of the case. This exciting search for traces is followed by the film, and its findings are recreated in elaborate play scenes. Thereby, a picture of an era thought to be bygone and an idea of what really happened back then comes into existence. More precise than any fiction, the docudrama manages to get closer to the truth.

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Art Direction:
Kurt Rauscher
Martin Wommer

Assistant Director:
Gesine Blanke

Author:
Kurt K. Hieber

Cinematography:
Björn Kurt
Johannes Schäfer

Color Grading:
Phillippe Schmid

Costumer:
Esther Walz
Michaela Wencelides

Director:
Kurt K. Hieber

Editor:
Thomas Polzer

Editorial Staff:
Christian Dezer

Interior Designer:
Seri Baris

Lighting Supervisor:
Albert Rieger

Lighting Technician:
Emanuel Kremer

Makeup Artist:
Katharina Schulz

Manager of Operations:
Daniel Rieder

Mixing Engineer:
Sven Blessing

Music:
Jens Hafemann

Producer:
Martin Groß

Production Assistant:
Annika Hoch

Production Manager:
Alex Amann
Ulrich Reuß
Sabine Zimmermann

Sound:
Michael Zeilinger

Steadycam:
Frank Hackeschmidt

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