Mord ohne Sühne (1962)
Based on an authentic case from the 1920s. The head country constable Heinz Lippert arrests the Polish farm worker Jakubowski on suspicion of murdering a child - his adopted son. Although he has insufficient evidence, public prosecutor Becker takes the case to court. Jakubowski is sentenced to death, the "Polish murderer" fits in with the propaganda of the time. Lippert, encouraged by the communist editor Hartmann, tries to prevent the sentence from being carried out and even investigates the real perpetrator. In vain, the death sentence was carried out prematurely. After the Nazis seized power, the public prosecutor, now an SS leader, had the men who had uncovered the true facts arrested. Lippert joins the underground resistance.
Director: Carl Ballhaus
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Günther Simon as Heinz Lippert |
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Johanna Clas as Lotte Lippert |
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Wojciech Siemion as Josef Jakubowski |
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Karla Runkehl as Dora Mettner |
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Manja Behrens as Frau Nogens |
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Wilhelm Koch-Hooge as |
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Horst Schönemann as |
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Erik S. Klein as |
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Fred Delmare as August Nogens |
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Rudolf Ulrich as |
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Harry Gillmann as |
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Kurt Steingraf as |
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Johannes Arpe as Von Pätow |
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Charlotte Friedrich as |
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Otto Krieg Helbig as |
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Gertrud Brendler as |
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Annegret Golding as |
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Peter Groeger as |
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Horst Friedrich as |
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Siegfried Weiß as |
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Herbert Dirmoser as |
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Paul Berndt as |
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Hans Flössel as |
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Karl-Heinz Weiss as |
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Marita Böhme as |
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Rudolf Christoph as |
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Harald Grünert as |
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Friedrich Teitge as |
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Axel Triebel as |
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Willi Neuenhahn as |
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Hans Sievers as |
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Hans-Joachim Engelmann as |
| Directing | Carl Ballhaus | Director |
| Writing | Joachim Barckhausen | Writer |
| Writing | Alexander Stenbock-Fermor | Writer |
| Crew | Peter Krause | Cinematography |
| Sound | Wolfgang Hohensee | Music |
| Editing | Ursula Rudzki | Editor |
| Writing | Theo Harych | Novel |