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Dead Pool

Dead Pool

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Overview

Docudrama in two parts, based on the abduction of the president of the employer's association of Germany, Hanns Martin Schleyer, by the Baader-Meinhof gang in the Autumn of '77.

Created by Heinrich Breloer
Written by Heinrich Breloer
Produced by Richard Bolz, Gebhard Henke, Andreas Knoblauch
NetworksARTEARTE

Top Cast

Sebastian Koch

Sebastian Koch

Andreas Baader

Karoline Eichhorn

Karoline Eichhorn

Brigitte Monhaupt

Manfred Zapatka

Manfred Zapatka

Helmut Schmidt

Dieter Mann

Dieter Mann

BKA-Präsident Horst Herold

Claudia Michelsen

Claudia Michelsen

Sieglinde Hofmann

Ulrich Matthes

Ulrich Matthes

Jan-Carl Raspe

Hans-Jörg Assmann

Hans-Jörg Assmann

Alfred Klaus

Robert Viktor Minich

Robert Viktor Minich

Jürgen Boock

Birol Ünel

Birol Ünel

Zohair Y. Akache aka 'Captain Mahmoud'

Hans Brenner

Hans Brenner

Hans-Martin Schleyer

Themes & Keywords

germany1970skidnappinginterviewpoliceairplane hijackingterrorist plotreflectivecomplexrafsuspensefuldignifiedexciteddocu-fictionhanns-martin schleyer

About Dead Pool

Dead Pool is a documentary, drama, war & politics, crime series that first aired in 1997 exploring themes of germany, 1970s, kidnapping, interview, police, airplane hijacking. Created by Heinrich Breloer, it stars Sebastian Koch, Karoline Eichhorn, Manfred Zapatka. Docudrama in two parts, based on the abduction of the president of the employer's association of Germany, Hanns Martin Schleyer, by the Baader-Meinhof gang in the Autumn of '77.

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