On August 21, 2017, a once-in-a-lifetime total solar eclipse passed straight across the heart of Nebraska...and so did a line of summer storms. From Carhenge to Homestead National Monument, from sky to prairie, relive the Great American Eclipse in 360-degrees as thousands wait in the rain with Bill Nye the Science Guy to see if the clouds will part in time for totality.
Still today, people say that during the stormy night from March 31st to April 1st, 1922, the devil had come to Hinterkaifeck. On the farmstead near Schrobenhausen, all 6 inhabitants – 4 Adults and two children – are struck down bestially.
The police did not manage to seek out the murderer(s). As the case is still unsolved as of today, the story still lives on in the minds of the people. Motion pictures, theatre plays, and the bestselling novel “Tannöd”, behind all of them stands Hinterkaifeck.
Aspiring police investigators and a self-declared “Internet – special commission ‘Hinterkaifeck’” have now once again taken up the trail of the case. This exciting search for traces is followed by the film, and its findings are recreated in elaborate play scenes. Thereby, a picture of an era thought to be bygone and an idea of what really happened back then comes into existence.
More precise than any fiction, the docudrama manages to get closer to the truth.
