Die unheimlichen Briefe

Die unheimlichen Briefe

Die unheimlichen Briefe

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Die unheimlichen Briefe

2002

1h 30m

5.5(2 votes)

Crime

TV Movie

Overview

Strange, rhymed advertisements in the newspaper unsettle three London gangsters - and rightly so, because soon the first of them are killed. The mysterious killer also catches a shady lawyer. Higgins and Lane find out that the key to the crimes is an unsolved diamond heist.

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RTL

Rialto Film

The people behind it

Cast & crew

10 featured cast members

Starring

Gunter Berger

Gunter Berger

Inspektor Higgins

Mariella Ahrens

Mariella Ahrens

Barbara Lane

Eddi Arent

Eddi Arent

Sir John

Rosalind Baffoe

Ann Pattison

Udo Schenk

Udo Schenk

William Bolden

Julia Richter

Julia Richter

Peggy Lynch

Helen Vita

Helen Vita

Lady Upperworth

Eva Ebner

Eva Ebner

Miss Thinwhister

Klaus Lehmann

Stephen Scott

Peggy Lukac

Peggy Lukac

Ruth Bolden

Creative team

Directed by: Wolfgang F. Henschel
Written by: Florian Pauer
Peter Jürgensmeier
Produced by: Horst Wendlandt

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