A Film by Dominik Graf
music by Florian Van Volxem and Sven Rossenbach
Er sollte tot: (He should (be) dead)
A trip to the countryside with fatal consequences.
Detective Chief Superintendent Tauber goes to Erding to play a quiet game
of billiards with his former boss, Kruppke but nearby Waller, a lonely old man, is found dead, strangled.
After a clash over jurisdiction between Tauber and Kruppke − body found in Tauber and Joe Obermeier´s district,
Waller´s house in Kruppke´s − they agree to work together.
This makes sense because Kruppke believes he knows that the dubious Maria Lorenz is somehow involved.
However, after Kruppke´s unsuccessful interrogation Tauber can´t shake off the suspicion that Kruppke,
his erstwhile role model, may have behaved incorrectly in this case.
Maria Lorenz is fighting a massive battle, which rages almost entirely in her own inner world.
Still, she answers thousands of questions and also asks a few of her own.
She is threatened, blackmailed and beaten up. She seduces and misleads. She lies and she loves.
(Translation: BR Press Release)
TV Premiere 06.08.2006
Director: Dominik Graf Writer: Rolf Basedow
Produced by: Cornelia Ackers
Camera: Axel Fischerkoesen Production Design: Claus Jürgen Pfeiffer
Cast: Edgar Selge, Michaela May, Rosalie Thomas and Eisi Gulp
Er sollte tot was awarded the Grimme Prize, the German Film Development Prize,
the German TV Prize and it won a Minich Film Festival Award...