• Runtime: 90'
  • Viewers: 5,17 Mio / 14,7 MA

After the big audience successes DAS KINDERMÄDCHEN (6.75 million/2013), DIE LETZTE INSTANZ (7.68 million/2014) and DER MANN OHNE SCHATTEN (7.32 million/2015), Carlo Rola again directs a film about Berlin lawyer Joachim Vernau (Jan Josef Liefers) based on the book of the same name by Elisabeth Herrmann to kick off the year on ZDF.

A murderous game, a mysterious suicide and a haunting secret: when lawyer Joachim Vernau takes over a law class at a private school in Berlin, the students meet him full of reservations. When Vernau discovers what is behind the silence, it is almost too late.
Content
Berlin lawyer Joachim Vernau (Jan Josef Liefers) receives a lucrative offer: He is to lead the law class at a private school. Vernau takes over the seventh hour. But on the very first day there is a scandal. Principal Katharina Oettinger (Sophie von Kessel), an old school friend of his law firm colleague Marie-Luise Hoffmann (Stefanie Stappenbeck), has concealed the fact that a girl in Vernau’s class committed suicide a few months ago.
Allegedly, Sami (Emilio Sakraya Moutaoukkil), a boy with Lebanese roots from the secondary school two streets away, had something to do with it. But was Clarissa really just suffering from lovesickness? Vernau’s students, especially Samantha (Isolda Dychauk) and Matthias (Samuel Schneider), become more and more withdrawn.
Vernau discovers that role-playing games were being played at the expensive private school. One of the games goes back to ancient medical records that someone must have found in the school attic. The school building once housed a mental hospital. The game “The Black Queen” is based on the delusions of a child murderess.
When another student becomes the victim of a poison attack at the school, fear runs rampant. Vernau goes on a search and finds access to a group that plays larp – live action role play – at night in a Berlin park. When he finds out who is behind the threats, it is almost too late …
The 7th Hour” was directed by Carlo Rola, based on the book of the same name by author Elisabeth Herrmann. Producers are Jutta Lieck-Klenke and Dietrich Kluge on behalf of ZDF. Daniel Blum is the editor.

  • Besetzung

    Jan Josef LIefers
    Stefanie Stappenbeck
    Sophie von Kessel
    Martin Brambach
    Marie Gruber
    Elisabeth Schwarz
    Carmen-Maja Antoni
    Muriel Wimmer
    Isolda Dychauk
    Julius Nitschkoff
    Lutz Blochberger
    Emilio Sakraya Moutaoukkil


    Stab

    Regie
    Carlo Rola

    Buch
    Elisabeth Herrmann

    Kamera
    Nicolay Gutscher

    Szenenbild
    Jérôme Latour

    Kostüm
    Mirjam Muschel

    Musik
    Enis Rotthoff

    Casting
    Anna-Lena Slater

    Schnitt
    Friederike von Normann

    Produktionsleitung
    Vanessa Eggers

    Herstellungsleitung
    Roger Daute

    Produzenten
    Jutta Lieck-Klenke, Dietrich Kluge

    Produktion
    Network Movie, Jutta Lieck-Klenke

    Redaktion im ZDF
    Daniel Blum