A village sees murder

Lavinia Wilson, August Zirner, Corinna Harfouch and Thomas Thieme in a drama about a well-kept secret

Novelist Martin Selig (August Zirner) has retired to a small village near Gorleben. Life goes on peacefully until one day the mysterious and attractive photographer Lotte Feininger (Lavinia Wilson) disturbs the idyll of the community. A man she portrays (Peter von Strombeck) suffers a fatal accident. A second sudden death of a portrayed villager (Jochen Nickel) is not long in coming. Martin Selig must fear that he has fallen in love with a murderess.

A mysterious crime thriller that takes you to a village near Gorleben in the picturesque Wendland region and is inspired by the 2005 bestseller “In unnütz toller Wut” by bestselling Dutch author Maarten ‘t Hart. Following the film adaptation of “The Secret Life of My Girlfriend,” based on Maarten ‘t Hart’s novel “The Sundial,” the successful collaboration with director Walter Weber continues. “A Village Sees Murder” is a production of Network Movie, Hamburg. Producers: Jutta Lieck-Klenke, Dietrich Kluge. Daniel Blum is the editor at ZDF.