Plot Summary

USA 1964: Three young men are arrested on suspicion of speeding. As it turns out, they are employees of a civil rights center in Mississippi who are fighting against the racist Ku Klux Klan. The disappearance of the activists leads to a political scandal in the USA. There are riots and demonstrations against the president's civil rights policy. Despite smear campaigns in the south of the USA, a trial is held in which the background is to be clarified. But the real perpetrators have their own laws...

Movie Details

Original Title
Tod am Mississippi
Status
released
Original Language
de

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Cast

Jiří Lír as Moore

Jiří Lír

Moore

Josef Šebek as Butler

Josef Šebek

Butler

Fritz Bartholdt as Sheriff Rainey

Fritz Bartholdt

Sheriff Rainey

Ulrich Teschner as Hilfssheriff Price

Ulrich Teschner

Hilfssheriff Price

Michael Narloch as

Michael Narloch

Klaus Nietz as

Klaus Nietz

Berko Acker as

Berko Acker

Carl Heinz Choynski as

Carl Heinz Choynski

Victor Beaumont as

Victor Beaumont

Manfred Müller as

Manfred Müller

Peter Sturm as

Peter Sturm

Thomas Weisgerber as

Thomas Weisgerber

Arthur Jopp as

Arthur Jopp

Helmut Schellhardt as

Helmut Schellhardt

Lothar Schellhorn as

Lothar Schellhorn

Berti Deutsch as

Berti Deutsch

Heinz Schröder as

Heinz Schröder

Gudrun Wendler as

Gudrun Wendler

Hans Ulrich Laufer as Arzt

Hans Ulrich Laufer

Arzt

Werner Ehrlicher as

Werner Ehrlicher

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