Perpetrator wanted

Germany

• 1931-03-12
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  Crime
• ▪ 1h-25m

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Overview

A dedicated editor, who is engaged to the daughter of a wealthy senator thrills her father with a lecture about convictions based on circumstantial evidence. When a corpse with a disfigured face is found in the house of the senator, evidence points to the editor. An entertaining thriller with a fairly intricate plot and some critical comments on the practice of the law. Based on the novel "Der geschlossene Ring" by Frank Arnau.

• Carl Heinz WolffDirector

  Egon EisScreenplay

  Frank ArnauNovel

  Rudolph CartierScreenplay

  Carl Heinz WolffProducer

  Jacob GadeSound