A TV film inspired by the Peggy Knobloch affair which has shaken Germany since 2001

On Friday October 18 at 8:55 p.m., Arte broadcasts Disappeared. A TV movie about the disappearance of a young girl, inspired by a nebulous yet very real criminal case…

Enjoying a series of European fictions, Arte will this Friday evening bet on a German thriller that is interesting in more than one way. It is about Disappearedproduced in 2012 by Dominik Graf, specialist in the genre across the Rhine. A TV film inspired by real events, plunging us into the throes of a miscarriage of justice and questioning us about the darker side of characters who are at first glance unsuspected…

Disappeared : A devilishly realistic TV movie

Here it all begins with the discovery of the corpse of a woman, on the side of a road in Franconia, close to the Czech border. Through his investigations, the young commissioner Niklas Tanner will meet a certain Altendorf. An investigator in the past, this now retired man will put him on the trail of a file that was once taken away from him, that of the disappearance of Sina Kolb, an 8-year-old girl kidnapped leaving the school. At the time, 11 years ago, Emmanuel Stock, mentally ill, confessed to his murder before being locked up in a psychiatric center. A botched affair for Altendorf and into which Niklas Tanner will throw himself headlong. The beginning of an incredible whirlwind of revelations…

Peggy Knobloch: Judicial error, botched investigation and suspicion of a pedophile act

Author of successful detective novels, Friedrich Ani wrote the screenplay for Disappeared. A fiction inspired by a real criminal case, that of Peggy Knobloch, 9 years old, kidnapped on May 7, 2001 in Lichtenberg, Bavaria. Initially, a mentally disabled Ulvi Kulac was convicted of the rape and murder of the girl, although her body was not found. Finally, in 2010, after his loved ones fought to prove his innocence and a witness’s recantation, he was cleared. It was not until 2016 that Peggy Knobloch’s remains were discovered in a forest. Even today, it is difficult to see clearly the death of the little girl, between a suspect already cited in the Maddy affair and a mother who, according to the German tabloids, would have had links with Bavarian child pornography circles.