5 votes
A dedicated editor, who is engaged to the daughter of a wealthy senator thrills her father with a lecture about convictions based on circumstantial evidence. When a corpse with a disfigured face is found in the house of the senator, evidence points to the editor. An entertaining thriller with a fairly intricate plot and some critical comments on the practice of the law. Based on the novel "Der geschlossene Ring" by Frank Arnau.

Status: Released
Released Date: 1931-03-12
Runtime: 85 mins
Director: Carl Heinz Wolff
Spoken language: Deutsch
Genres: Crime
Original title: Perpetrator wanted
Production Companies: Carl-Heinz Wolff Filmproduktion
Production Countries: Germany

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Ernst Behmer

Rosa Valetti

Gustav Rickelt

Julius E. Herrmann

Wanda Rotha

Harry Frank

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Friedrich Kayssler