Degree of Murder

Volker Schlöndorff's second feature film: When Hans decides to leave Marie, packs his things, but wants to sleep with her one last time, she defends herself. She shoots him and on the same evening persuades Günther, a young man in a bar, to remove the body for a fee. In the face of the dead, both become a new couple and set out with Günther's friend Fritz to make the body disappear in the excavation of a new motorway.

Director : Volker Schlöndorff. 1967, col., 87 min.