The Hau case

Movie
Original title	The Hau case
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1966
length	90 minutes
Rod
Director	Joachim Hess
script	Erich Ebermayer
production	Televersal
occupation
Werner Bruhns : Dr. Carl Hau Andrea Grosske : Lina Hau Barbara Senff : Olga Molitor Elly Burgmer : Helene Molitor Joachim Rathmann : First Lieutenant Molitor Victor Warsitz : District Court Director Georg Eilert : Defender Franz Rudnick : Public Prosecutor Wolf von Gersum : Assessor Sigrid von Richthofen : wife of Reitzenstein Frank Straass : Porter Kerstin de Ahna : housemaid Harry Engel : Trainee lawyer in Lenk Kurt A. Jung : hairdresser Friedrich Schütter : criminal inspector Rudolf Möller : Expert

The Fall Hau is a television game that was produced by Televersal Hamburg on behalf of ZDF . The broadcast date was January 7, 1966.

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The television film depicts the authentic case of the lawyer Dr. Carl Hau (1881–1926), who in 1907 was sentenced to death in a circumstantial trial for the murder of his mother-in-law, and was later pardoned to life imprisonment. He was released on parole after 17 years in prison. After he wrote two books in which he described the process and the time of detention from his point of view, the sentence was revoked. Hau then fled to Italy and finally committed suicide there.

Others

The production, shot in black and white, received little friendly reviews from the TV magazine Gong at the time. It was criticized, among other things, that screenwriter Erich Ebermayer only provided a "superficial transfer of the facts" and did not even go into the books that Hau had written about his fate after his release from prison. The gong sees the "perplexed viewer (...) asking in vain for a useful application" and ultimately describes the film as "unsuccessful re-chewing of facts" .

Web links

• The case Hau in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• The Hau case on the crime thriller website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Detailed information on the Hau case can be found in the Wikipedia article on Carl Hau.
2. ↑ The Hau case at krimiserien.de , accessed on June 27, 2016