The Last Witness

The Last Witness (1960)

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.

star 6.3 6.9
  • Release Date: 1960-12-30
  • Runtime: 1h 42min
  • Director: Wolfgang Staudte

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Cast

  • Martin Held

    Direktor Werner Rameil

  • Hanns Lothar

    Rechtsanwalt Dr. Fox

  • Ellen Schwiers

    Ingrid Bernhardy

  • Jürgen Goslar

    Dr. Heinz Stephan

  • Adelheid Seeck

    Gerda Rameil

  • Werner Hinz

    Landgerichtsrat Ricker

  • Lore Hartling

    Assessorin Ebeling

  • Siegfried Wischnewski

    Kriminalinspektor Gerhuf

  • Harald Juhnke

    Kriminalsekretär Wenzel

  • Otto Graf

    Anwalt Dr. Beyer

  • Albert Bessler

    Dr. Hollberg

  • Lucie Mannheim

    Frau Bernhardy

  • Hans Hessling

    Vorsitzender des Schwurgerichts

  • Hellmut Grube

    Staatsanwalt Thalmann

  • Rudi Schmitt

  • Herbert Tiede

    Dr. Heinz Stephans Anwalt

  • Blandine Ebinger

    Gymnastiklehrerin

  • Martin Berliner

    Beamter beim Nachlassgericht

  • Tilly Lauenstein

    Aufseherin

  • Ursula Diestel

  • Maria Milde

  • Alexa von Porembsky

    Sekretärin

  • Harald Sawade

    Portier

  • Käte Alving

  • Hilla Höfer

  • Erich Dunskus

  • Ilse Trautschold

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