THE BLIND SPOT

Genre: Tragedy
Year of Production: 2007
Co-Producers: DFFB Berlin
Station: ZDF Das kleine Fernsehspiel, Lucas Schmidt
Director: Tom Zenker

Screenplay: Tom Zenker
Casting: Simone Bär
Director of Photography: Frank Meyer
Editing: Sarah Levine
Score/ music: Tom Zenker, Jakob Diehl
Production Design: Axel Werner
Costume Design: Katrin Berthold
Make-up Artist: Mike Reinecke
Sound recording: Einar Marell

An ordinary policeman's life is turned upside down when his daughter is arrested as the prime suspect in the murder of two policemen. She refuses to talk. He is torn between the inability to believe that his daughter is a cold-blooded killer and his growing doubts as to her innocence. When he is finally confronted with the truth, he has to make a tough decision...

Jan-Gregor Kremp (Eckhard König), Nina Petri (Marianne König), Henriette Schmidt (Laura König), Jakob Diehl (Max Schreiber), Hans-Uwe Bauer (Markus Dietz), Josef Heynert (Christian Klier)

Awards:
First Steps Award 2007 „Bester Abendfüllender Spielfilm“, Fernseh-Krimi-Preis Wiesbaden

Festivals:
Filmfest Hamburg 2007, Filmfest Sevilla 2007, Solothurner Filmtage 2008, Internationales Filmfestival Shanghai 2008, Filmfest München