Wealthy Corpses: A Crime Story from Starnberg
Odd things start to happen when Rookie Cop Ariane reports for work in the rich suburb of Starnberg. A corpse surfaces at the same spot where Mad King Ludwig II drowned in 1886. The dead man isn't just dressed like Ludwig, he seems to have lived like him, too...
Police academy grad Ariane Fink from Dortmund winds up in Starnberg, of
all places: A faceless bedroom community on a beautiful Bavarian lake.
The highest population of millionaires in the state. On her first day on
duty, Ariane is faced with the most Bavarian cliché of all: Mad King
Ludwig II, or a very convincing doppelganger, washes up on the shore in
the same spot where the monarch drowned 1886. Even Chief Inspector Lu
Reinhold is impressed, as a big fan of the fabled king, and takes on the
case personally. But who is the dead man? He seems to have lived just
as richly as his role model, with "severe tooth decay and serious
obesity". They can't figure out his identity or whether it was murder or
suicide, however. The only clue is the fake king seems to have had a
sleep disorder. Then the rich daughter from a broken Starnberg home is
kidnapped, who shares one thing in common with king Ludwig: She just
wants to be loved.
Directed by German star director Dominik Graf ("Beloved Sisters", "Dreileben", "Face to Face with Crime).
Key Information
| Original Title | Die reichen Leichen. Ein Starnbergkrimi |
| Genre |
Fiction/Drama |
| Produced by: | Hager Moss Film for BR |
| Year Of Production | 2014 |
| Duration | 01h30h00h00 min |
| Country Of Origin | Germany |
| Language Versions | German [OV], English [SUB TITLE] |
Cast & Crew
| Director/s | Dominik Graf |
| Cast | Andreas Giebel Annina Hellenthal Florian Stetter Eisi Gulp Martin Feifel Ulrike C. Tscharre Hannes Jaenicke |
| Producer/s | |
| Writer/s | Sathyan Ramesh |