Das Buschgespenst

Story

Synopsis

In the forests of the Ore Mountains, on the border with Bohemia, a gang of smugglers is up to mischief. Anyone who dares to oppose them is murdered in cold blood. The locals are paralyzed by fear of the ominous bush ghost that is said to be behind it all. Then a stranger turns up at the remote forester's lodge and begins investigating a murder that took place twenty years ago. Having become wealthy in the Alaskan gold fields, Arndt is now looking for the woman he once loved and whose perjury landed him in prison. The forester and the weaver Eduard Hauser help him with his investigations. But Hauser himself soon becomes the victim of a sinister intrigue. Fritz Seidelmann, an unscrupulous profiteer who is after Hauser's fiancée Angelika, lures him into a trap. Hauser is arrested as an alleged bush ghost. For the time being, Arndt can do nothing for him ...

Director

Vera Loebner

Writers

Friedemann Schreiter, Karl May

Language

German

Country

East Germany

Release date

26 December 1986

Ensemble

Cast

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  Rolf Ludwig

  Gustav 'Arndt' Brandt

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  Kurt Böwe

  Gottlieb Wunderlich

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  Marianne Wünscher

  Barbara Wunderlich

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  Detlef Gieß

  Fritz Seidelmann

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  Ulrich Mühe

  Siegfried Strauch

• Andreas Herrmann

  Eduard Hauser

• Heike Meyer

  Angelika Hofmann

• Hans-Joachim Brieske

  Franz Siebert

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  Jenny Gröllmann

  Frau Siebert

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  Barbara Dittus

  Frau Seidelmann

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  Horst Rehberg

  Vater Hauser

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  Gerry Wolff

  Vater Hoffmann