(Das Buschgespenst)

Content: In the forests of the Ore Mountains, on the border with Bohemia, a gang of smugglers is up to mischief. Anyone who dares to oppose them is murdered in cold blood. The locals are paralyzed by fear of the ominous bush ghost that is said to be behind it all. Then a stranger turns up at the remote forester's lodge and begins investigating a murder that took place twenty years ago. Having become wealthy in the Alaskan gold fields, Arndt is now looking for the woman he once loved and whose perjury landed him in prison. The forester and the weaver Eduard Hauser help him with his investigations. But Hauser himself soon becomes the victim of a sinister intrigue. Fritz Seidelmann, an unscrupulous profiteer who is after Hauser's fiancée Angelika, lures him into a trap. Hauser is arrested as an alleged bush ghost. For the time being, Arndt can do nothing for him ...

Countries:

East Germany

Genres:

Crime,

Drama

Runtime:

168 minutes

Year:

1986

Directors:

Vera Loebner

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Production companies:

Fernsehen der DDR

Actors:

Gustav 'Arndt' Brandt

Gottlieb Wunderlich

Barbara Wunderlich

Fritz Seidelmann

Siegfried Strauch

Crews:

Director

Music

Writer

Director of Photography

Editor