Excellent TV production, which saves a -gottlob- what the victim in her last minutes "co- make "had regard Just what serial killer movies. I'm very grateful if I too bold of Butcheries be spared. - There are not many films in which Donald Sutherland ("Do not Look Mourning wear ", 1973) can upstage, but Stephen Rea as relentless investigator in one, also through Party clique, practically unsolvable case unschlagbbar. But his appearance when he, at the end of his tether, learns his insistence that the transfer results of this beast causes and ultimately he gets a crying fit, when he Sutherland reads the eulogy of a leading FBI agents who himself does not wish that such a attached persistent pursuers at his heels, is very big drama !!! In addition, even Max von Sydow as a psychologist and Joss Ackland ("The House That Dripped Blood", 1970) as a Pharisee-like KPDSU- Leader who protects the PG-member of the offender to homosexual by his own desires divert and the arrests of the "usual suspicions" to new "contacts" get hold. Understand why this exemplary film in Germany is not available on DVD !!!