The Last Witness
Der letzte Zeuge
Release: 1960-12-30
·Runtime: 102m
·★ 6.2
Crime
Drama
Director Wolfgang Staudte who left East Germany in 1953 to make movies in West Germany, takes a few swipes at the West German judicial system in this fairly effective courtroom drama about the murder of a four-month-old baby. Police almost immediately arrest the mother Ingrid who is the mistress of the father, a rich business VIP married to another woman. His position and wealth keep him insulated from suspicion. A hot-shot lawyer has to overcome the unaccountably biased perceptions of the police, the judge, the prosecutor and almost everyone else in the judicial system. The defence lawyer, driven to an extreme, knows he has to find the real killer or his client will be convicted.
Production Countries
Germany
Production Companies
Kurt Ulrich Filmproduktion
Cast
Ilse Trautschold
Hanns Lothar
as Rechtsanwalt Dr. Fox
Werner Hinz
as Landgerichtsrat Ricker
Erich Dunskus
Ellen Schwiers
as Ingrid Bernhardy
Jürgen Goslar
as Dr. Heinz Stephan
Albert Bessler
as Dr. Hollberg
Hans Hessling
as Vorsitzender des Schwurgerichts
Herbert Tiede
as Dr. Heinz Stephans Anwalt
Tilly Lauenstein
as Aufseherin
Martin Held
as Direktor Werner Rameil
Harald Juhnke
as Kriminalsekretär Wenzel
Blandine Ebinger
as Gymnastiklehrerin
Siegfried Wischnewski
as Kriminalinspektor Gerhuf
Lucie Mannheim
as Frau Bernhardy
Ursula Diestel
