Der Fall Harrer

Story

Synopsis

Walter Harrer, an engineer, is on the night shift and returns home in the morning to find his wife lying unsconscious in the garden. She is sent to hospital were a loss of memory is observed. Dr. Bogner, a young psychiatrist, is interested in the case and tries to help Mercedes. He talks to her husband, her former lover and her friends to see if he can get some clue as to why she can't remember who she is. She confesses that she killed Lona Logan, her rival. But Dr. Bogner isn't sure that she's telling the truth. Did she really do it or is it pure fantasy?

Director

Antonis Lepeniotis

Writers

Antonis Lepeniotis, Nora Gray

Language

German

Country

Austria

Release date

10 March 1986

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  Beatrice Frey

  Mercedes

• Dieter Witting

  Dr. Bogner

• Rolf Parton

  Mercedes' husband

• Gerald Florian

  Kolmer, Mercedes' lover

• Marianne Chappuis

  rich woman

• 

  Heinz Reincke

  Mercedes' father

• 

  Erwin Strahl

  Prof. Marathon, psychiatrist

• 

  Kurt Jaggberg

  Dr. Katz

• Ingold Platzer

  former cabaret star