The Bookfair Murders

The Bookfair Murders

🎞️ Movie 93 min DE
โ˜… 5.7 /10 2000

Halifax Chronicle-Herald newspaper reporter Judith Cass is in Frankfurt attending a book fair, she there to write an article on up and coming Canadian author Jonathan Matthews who is writing a book rumored to be of major historical significance. Judith's story takes a major turn when Jonathan, during the fair's opening night party, collapses and dies. The police later report that Jonathan was poisoned to death. Jonathan had a personal history with publisher Marsha Hillier, Judith's friend who is also at the fair to promote the yet unfinished book of her star author, Margaret Dourie Cantor. Jonathan's murder is the latest but worst of Marsha's problems at the fair. Marsha has also been having problems with Margaret and Margaret's agent, Martin Barrett - who was also Jonathan's agent - about Margaret's inaccessibility to the book fair's buyers and the questionable quality of the chapters she's written thus far. Judith, looking for the answers to Jonathan's murder in wanting a good story but also to help her friend Marsha, works with Ernst Murnau, the Frankfurt police inspector assigned to the case. They all figure that the answers to Jonathan's murder may be found somewhere in his manuscript.

Cast

Samantha Bond
Samantha Bond
Marsha Hillier
Linda Kash
Linda Kash
Judith Cass
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Bernd Michael Lade
Ernst Murnau
Saul Rubinek
Saul Rubinek
Martin P. Barrett
Robert Joy
Robert Joy
Peter Schmidt
Walter Kreye
Walter Kreye
Peter Freimann
Jonathan Higgins
Jonathan Higgins
Jonathan Matthews
Geneviève Bujold
Geneviève Bujold
Margaret Dourie Cantor
Eli Wallach
Eli Wallach
Erich Schmidt
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Cliff Saunders
Morris
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Filippo Trecca
Composer
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Edwin Horak
Cinematographer