A group of GDR tourists has to spend the night on an island off the Black Sea coast because of engine trouble. They devise a game to pass the time. The crime expert Dr. Enderlein suggests a murder game. A young woman who was supposed to be the "corpse" is suddenly really dead, she is found on the cliff. The suspicion of murder is raised. The ominous situation reveals the characters of the tour group members. 'Einer muss die Leiche sein' is a 1978 DEFA crime film directed by Iris Gusner, based on the crime novel of the same name by Gert Prokop. Gusner worked at DEFA from 1970, initially as an assistant director to Konrad Wolf. Her first own film 'Die Taube auf dem Dach' (1973) was not released for screening in the GDR; the film material was destroyed at the studio - all that remained was a working copy, on the basis of which a reconstruction of the film was made in 2010.
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1h 20min
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A group of GDR tourists has to spend the night on an island off the Black Sea coast because of engine trouble. They devise a game to pass the time.
The crime expert Dr. Enderlein suggests a murder game. A young woman who was supposed to be the "corpse" is suddenly really dead, she is found on the cliff. The suspicion of murder is raised. The ominous situation reveals the characters of the tour group members.
'Einer muss die Leiche sein' is a 1978 DEFA crime film directed by Iris Gusner, based on the crime novel of the same name by Gert Prokop.
Gusner worked at DEFA from 1970, initially as an assistant director to Konrad Wolf. Her first own film 'Die Taube auf dem Dach' (1973) was not released for screening in the GDR; the film material was destroyed at the studio - all that remained was a working copy, on the basis of which a reconstruction of the film was made in 2010.