Der Sandmann (1995) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained

Release, runtime and language

1995 · 95 mins · German

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Directed by

Nico Hofmann

Starring

Michael Brandner, Karoline Eichhorn, Inga Busch, Götz George, Michael Schenk, Ilka Teichmüller

Ina Littmann, an ambitious TV talk‑show journalist on “Eye in Eye”, investigates bestselling author Henry Kupfer, who spent eight years in prison for manslaughter before writing about a psychopathic killer. She intends to tie him to a recent series of brutal prostitute murders, becomes both fascinated and repelled, and grows convinced Kupfer is the murderer, planning to expose him live on the program.