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Cast

Otto Sander (Sprecher)

Team

Director
Matthias Unterburg

Script
Henning Sietz, Matthias Unterburg nach dem Buch Attentat auf Adenauer erschienen im Siedler Verlag

Director of Photography
Rainer Hartmann, bvk

Editor
Berthold Baule

Sound
Sebastian Wagner

Production Designer
Christiane Stein, Daniel Döhmer

Producer
Jasmin Gravenhorst

TV Editor
Susann Bremer, Rainer Markgraf, NDR

Attack on Adenauer

2005

A film by Matthias Unterburg based on the book by Henning Sietz
In Munich on the 27th of March 1952 preparations were made to assassinate the German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. A young man was supposed to detonate a bomb in his proximity. That same day the terrorist attack ended in unexpected fashion. The police attempted to find the man behind the attacks for decades - without success. It was 50 years later, in winter 2002, that the journalist Henning Sietz - author of the controversial book “Attack on Adenauer” - rediscovered the files of the investigation in a public archive. These documents, complete with a large number of photographs and many details, describe the course of the unsuccessful police investigation - complete with numerous mistakes - which lasted almost 10 years. Now filmmaker Matthias Unterburg, working together with Henning Sietz, has once again studied this long-forgotten criminal case from the year 1952 in a program commissioned by ARD. After extensive research in archives in Germany, the USA, France and Israel, along with a great many connotations with contemporary witnesses and those involved, they have succeeded in reconstructing the secret story of an attempted political assassination in a tense TV documentary founded in objective fact... which comes up with some surprising results.

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