Das Buschgespenst

Das Buschgespenst

1986 · 168 min · ★ 9.0 · Crime, Drama

In the forests of the Ore Mountains, on the border with Bohemia, a gang of smugglers is up to mischief. Anyone who dares to oppose them is murdered in cold blood. The locals are paralyzed by fear of the ominous bush ghost that is said to be behind it all. Then a stranger turns up at the remote forester's lodge and begins investigating a murder that took place twenty years ago. Having become wealthy in the Alaskan gold fields, Arndt is now looking for the woman he once loved and whose perjury landed him in prison. The forester and the weaver Eduard Hauser help him with his investigations. But Hauser himself soon becomes the victim of a sinister intrigue. Fritz Seidelmann, an unscrupulous profiteer who is after Hauser's fiancée Angelika, lures him into a trap. Hauser is arrested as an alleged bush ghost. For the time being, Arndt can do nothing for him ...

Directed by Vera Loebner · Written by Friedemann Schreiter

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Rolf Ludwig Gustav 'Arndt' Brandt
Kurt Böwe Gottlieb Wunderlich
Marianne Wünscher Barbara Wunderlich
Detlef Gieß Fritz Seidelmann
Ulrich Mühe Siegfried Strauch
Andreas Herrmann Eduard Hauser
Heike Meyer Angelika Hofmann
Hans-Joachim Brieske Franz Siebert
Jenny Gröllmann Frau Siebert
Barbara Dittus Frau Seidelmann
Horst Rehberg Vater Hauser
Gerry Wolff Vater Hoffmann

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