Dead Pool

★ 6.0IMDb Score
Released:1997-06-15
Duration:177 min
Country:Germany
Director:Heinrich Breloer
Actors:Sebastian Koch, Karoline Eichhorn, Manfred Zapatka, Dieter Mann, Claudia Michelsen
Production:WDR, NDR, CineCentrum Deutsche Gesellschaft für Film- und Fernsehproduktion mbH

Overview:

Docudrama in two parts, based on the abduction of the president of the employer's association of Germany, Hanns Martin Schleyer, by the Baader-Meinhof gang in the Autumn of '77.

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