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Film · Crime, Drama

It Happened in Broad Daylight (1997)

★ 6.9 · 8 votesIMDb★ 5.6 · 305 votes1 h 30 minCrime, Drama1997

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.

Director
Nico Hofmann
Writers
Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Bernd Eichinger, Uwe Wilhelm
Country
Germany
Language
German
Release date
January 4, 1997
Original title
Es geschah am hellichten Tag

It Happened in Broad Daylight cast

  • Joachim KrólKommissar Matthäus
  • Barbara RudnikElisabeth
  • Axel MilbergSchrott
  • Judith ThayenthalAnnemarie
  • Heino FerchBock
  • Hans-Werner MeyerSteiner
  • Arnd KlawitterHenze
  • Martin LüttgeHeld
  • Monika BaumgartnerMutter der ermordeten Hanne
  • Michael MendlBauer Moser
  • Monica BleibtreuFrau Moser
  • Dieter MannMärz
  • Udo ThomerBauer Barz
  • Heinz-Josef BraunDorfpolizist
  • Steffen SchroederJugendlicher
  • Ursula BuschhornLehrerin
  • Wolfgang ThonWirt
  • Heribert Czerniak1. Jungbauer
  • Alexander Held2. Jungbauer
  • Michael Z. HoffmannBauer
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