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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.
Art Direction:
Martin Wommer
Kurt Rauscher
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:
Sabine Zimmermann
Ulrich Reuß
Alex Amann
Sound:
Michael Zeilinger
Steadycam:
Frank Hackeschmidt
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