01 Mar 1991
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The story of the famous and influential 1960s rock band and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morrison.
The Kleist File
Kleist's death at Wannsee - a spectacular case that has disturbed and fascinated posterity to this day. The German poet is found shot - what does that mean? What exactly happened on the afternoon of November 21, 1811 at Kleiner Wannsee? What do you know about the woman who died with him?
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Alexander Beyer Heinrich von Kleist
Meret Becker Henriette Vogel
Nina Hoss Narrator
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