Schuss in der Nacht - Die Ermordung Walter Lübckes

Overview

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.

Directed by Raymond Ley

Top cast

Joachim Król

Norbert Bartels

Katja Bürkle

Petra Lischke

Konstantin Lindhorst

Markus H.

Robin Sondermann

Stephan Ernst

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Hagen Bähr

Alexander Thomas

Hannah Ley

Konstanze Weber

Bernd Hölscher

Werner Vogel

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Marco Matthes

Frank Hannig

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Bert Cöll

Walter Lübcke

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