Joachim Król
Norbert Bartels
On June 1st, 2019, around 11:30pm, the shoot which represents a turning point in the federal republic falls. In the hessian small town Wolfhagen-Istha, the district president of Kassel, Walter Lübcke, is murdered during this night, while, just a few meters away, the annual carnival is putting the locals into a festive mood. It is DNA-evidence on the clothes of Walter Lübcke which leads the investigators on June 15th, 2019, to his presumptive murderer: Stephan Ernst. The previously convicted right-wing extremist Ernst gets arrested by a SEK unit in Kassel. A first background check reveals: Stephan Ernst was known to the security authorities, but they did not have him on their radar for six years. Now he is back. And a person is dead. The docu-drama “Schuss in der Nacht” („Shoot in the dark“) tells emotionally, and simultaneously factually, how the deadly attack on Lübcke came to be. It tells about the first far-right motivated murder of a politician since the era of national socialism.
Release Date | 2020-12-04 |
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Runtime | 1h 29m |
Directors | Raymond Ley, Dirk Heuer, Madeleine von Senfft |
Producers | Tonio Kellner, Brian A. Moser, Joheina Hamami, Tim Klimes, Christiane Mädge, Walid Nakschbandi |
Writers | Hannah Ley, Raymond Ley, Dirk Eisfeld |