Ich wollte nicht töten

Ich wollte nicht töten

2007

Young Lena Kehl urgently wants to speak to the Berlin star reporter Meike Marndorfer, but is then driven to her death. Meike senses a story about old Stasi machinations and investigates in Lena's home town of Neubrandenburg. Together with Lena's boyfriend Robert, she discovers something that shakes up her life.

Directed by Dagmar Hirtz · Written by Frauke Hunfeld

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