Oct 08, 1980
104 min
Full-HD

From the Life of the Marionettes (1980)

Peter and Katarina are at a marital crossroads, but, when he brutally kills a burlesque dancer, their domestic squabbles are rendered trivial by comparison. In the wake of the crime, the film backtracks, painting a portrait of the fraught union between Peter and Katarina. When does a marriage go bad? What causes a member of the German bourgeoisie to murder an innocent woman?

Category

Drama

Country

Germany

Companies

Personafilm

Robert Atzorn

Peter Egerman

Christine Buchegger

Katarina Egerman

Martin Benrath

Mogensjensen

Rita Russek

Katharina Krafft

Lola Müthel

Cordelia Egerman

Walter Schmidinger

Tim Mandelbaum

Heinz Bennent

Arthur Brenner

Karl Heinz Pelser

Untersuchungsrichter

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