Die vierte Gewalt
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View on VideBits →Freelance journalist Jan Schulte hopes for a job at the online portal of Berlin newspaper “Die Republik” when he discovers a potential scandal. Federal minister of health Elisabeth Stade apparently helped her brother’s search for a heart transplant by moving him up the waiting list illegally. But then Schulte’s colleague Britta claims the compromising material is a fake. Editor-in-chief Weishaupt and publisher Winter refuse to run the article. As Jan keeps on digging into the scandal, investigating state secretary Katharina Pflüger and political advisor Frank Gruber, his evidence is suddenly stolen from the newspaper office, and soon a competing tabloid breaks the story...
Cast & crew
Benno Fürmann · Devid Striesow · Franziska Weisz · Heike Hanold-Lynch · Holger Daemgen · Jördis Triebel · Mercedes Müller · Oliver Masucci · Ulrich Matthes · Victoria Trauttmansdorff · Brigitte Bertele · Jochen Bitzer