The Praying Mantis

Year: 2001

Runtime: 93 mins

Language: German

Director: Paul Harather

ComedyThriller

Trixi Jancik leads a dangerous double life. At home she is an obedient housewife, but she dons a disguise to visit the racetrack, indulging in a secret passion and tasting a luxury she had only imagined. After blowing her grocery money, a small domestic fight drives her to poison her husband with a lethal mix of pills.

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