A series of brutal murders leads inspector Armin Trost and his colleague Anette Rath onto a bloody track of historic acts of violence in their second murder case. When a young journalist is found dead, the crime seems familiar to the detectives. But why? They discover more in a bestseller about the worst felonies in the history of Styria, meticuously described. The recently published and successful work served as a sort of manual for the copycat criminal. More crimes are committed. Murders by the book. The detectives are under pressure. Which cruelty will serve as the next role model? The trail guides Trost and Rath to the author himself, professor Tadelmann and his university. However, would he act upon his own words?
Again with their second case, the police duo Armin Trost (Michael Ostrowski) and Anette Rath (Bea Brocks) from Graz make use of unconventional investigations. Not only do they drive just some suspect, but even more so their superior Gierack (Robert Reinagl) into despair.
A film by Nikolaus Leytner and Anton Maria Aigner.
With Bea Brocks, Michael Ostrowski, Dominik Warta, Robert Reinagl, Joseph Lorenz and Christian Strasser.
Credits
Armin Trost: Michael Ostrowski
Anette Rath: Bea Brocks
Reinhard Hinterher: Dominik Warta
Balthasar Gierack: Robert Reinagl
Fred Bollinger: Norman Hacker
Prosecutor: Julian Loidl
Police officer: Emilia Leitner
Magister: Christian Strasser
Cornelius Tadelmann: Joseph Lorenz
starring in further roles, among others Pia Raunjak, Karl Fischer, Cosima Lehninger, Sabrina Worsch, Sabine Herget, Michael Mischinsky, Angelika Strahser und Mercedes Echerer.
TV Feature Film
90 min.
Directed by: Nikolaus Leytner
Written by: Nikolaus Leytner, Anton Maria Aigner
Based on the novel by: Robert Preis, "Der Engel von Graz"
Producers: Jakob Pochlatko, Dieter Pochlatko, Jan Gebauer
Line Producer: Alfred Strobl
Executive Producer: Nina Kohlhammer
Production Coordination: Johanna Siebert
Director of Photography: Hermann Dunzendorfer
Sound: Max Vornehm, Martin Löcker
Music: Herwig Zamernik
Edited by: Bettina Mazakarini
Production Design: Christine Egger
Costume Design: Caterina Czepek
Make Up: Monika Puymann, Eliese Bernard
Casting: Nicole Schmied
Commissioning Editors ServusTV: Frank Holderied, Maresa Wendleder
among others
produced in: 2024
first broadcasted: September 20, 2025
a co-production by ServusTV and EPO-Film
with the financial support of FISAplus, ABA, Fernsehfonds Austria, CineStyria and Film Commission Graz
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