Several young girls were killed in a rural area. Thus Inspector Matthaei has to travel to the region where it happened and has to search for the killer. When all the people suspect a roamer to be the killer he gets lynched and everybody thinks that the crimes will stop now but not Matthaei who searches for a blond girl that looks just like the ones that were murdered. He finds one and stays with her and her mother, attracting the murderer with the girl trying to catch him this way.
Acting
Król's Matthaei: repulsive yet magnetic, you can't look away.
Direction
Hofmann makes rural Germany feel like a disease.
Writing
The bait-girl premise that dares you to keep watching.
Director
Nico Hofmann
Joachim Król
Kommissar Matthäus
Barbara Rudnik
Elisabeth
Axel Milberg
Schrott
Heino Ferch
Bock
Hans-Werner Meyer
Steiner
Arnd Klawitter
Henze
Martin Lüttge
Held
Monika Baumgartner
Mutter der ermordeten Hanne
Michael Mendl
Bauer Moser
Monica Bleibtreu
Frau Moser
Dieter Mann
März
Udo Thomer
Bauer Barz
Heinz-Josef Braun
Dorfpolizist
Steffen Schroeder
Jugendlicher
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This is a remake of the 1958 Swiss-German classic 'Es geschah am hellichten Tag'—the original starred Gert Fröbe, pre-Goldfinger fame.
The 1997 version strips away the original's procedural neatness, making Matthaei's moral rot the true horror.
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