Das Lied des toten Mädchens (2021)
Sauerland, autumn 1995: In the middle of the forest on the Wilzenberg, a walker finds the body of high school graduate Sonja Risse. However, the fact that the killer left a music box with the lullaby "Hush Little Baby" at the crime scene does not lead to a clear solving. 25 years later, the investigative journalist Stefanie Schneider, known as "Mütze", made a surprising discovery in Cologne. In a disused multi-storey car park, she films an undressed corpse of a man with a music box running next to it! When her colleague Jan Römer, who reported on the spectacular Sonja case as a young journalist in 1995, recognizes the melody from back then, he immediately believes there is a connection. He goes to Wilzenberg with his ambitious colleague to interview Sonja's mother Maria, her former teacher Waldheim and her best friends. The more the journalists compile, the clearer the contradictions and gaps that the investigators should have noticed at the time.
Director: Felix Herzogenrath
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Torben Liebrecht as Jan Römer |
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Lara Mandoki as Stefanie Schneider |
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Kais Setti as Arslan Aksoy |
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Michael Specht as Lupe |
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Dirk Borchardt as Thomas Sonnefeld |
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Peter Davor as Edmund Münch |
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Nadja Becker as Rebecca Wahlert (geb. Kaiser) |
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Franziska Arndt as Anna Lehmann |
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Hans-Uwe Bauer as Sebastian Waldheim |
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Fritz Roth as Wirt Schulte |
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Johanna Hens as Sonja Risse (1995) |
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Mia Kovac as Anne Lehmann (1995) |
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Vivien Sczesny as Rebecca Kaiser (1995) |
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Kerstin Römer as Maria Risse |
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Oona von Maydell as Rechtsmedizinerin Beate Lenz |
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Timo Hübsch as Andreas Wahlert |
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Henner Momann as Thomas Sonnefeld (1995) |
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Maxwell Richter as Gernot Spengler (1995) |
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Guido Renner as Linus Günther |
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Carlo Bohnenkamp as Lukas Römer |
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Naila Schuberth as Leonie Wahlert |
| Directing | Felix Herzogenrath | Director |
| Writing | Annette Reeker | Writer |
| Writing | Linus Geschke | Novel |
| Sound | Dominik Giesriegl | Music |
| Production | Marc Schötteldreier | Casting Director |
| Costume & Make-Up | Eva Kantor | Costume Design |
| Art | Thomas Schmid | Production Design |
| Editing | Vincent Assmann | Editor |
| Camera | Stephan Wagner | Director of Photography |
| Production | Annette Reeker | Producer |
| Production | Zeljko Karajica | Producer |
| Production | Eva Tonkel | Executive Producer |
| Sound | Hank Trede | Sound |
| Sound | Tobias Mahlstedt | Sound Designer |
| Sound | Martin Grube | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Jutta Dinges | Makeup Designer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Melanie Schneider | Makeup Designer |
| Production | Oliver Uenzen | Line Producer |
| Production | Kirsten Frehse | Line Producer |
| Production | Herwig Krawinkler | Producer |