Das Buschgespenst

Synopsis

In the forests of the Ore Mountains, on the border with Bohemia, a gang of smugglers is up to mischief. Anyone who dares to oppose them is murdered in cold blood. The locals are paralyzed by fear of the ominous bush ghost that is said to be behind it all. Then a stranger turns up at the remote forester's lodge and begins investigating a murder that took place twenty years ago. Having become wealthy in the Alaskan gold fields, Arndt is now looking for the woman he once loved and whose perjury landed him in prison. The forester and the weaver Eduard Hauser help him with his investigations. But Hauser himself soon becomes the victim of a sinister intrigue. Fritz Seidelmann, an unscrupulous profiteer who is after Hauser's fiancée Angelika, lures him into a trap. Hauser is arrested as an alleged bush ghost. For the time being, Arndt can do nothing for him ...

Cast

Rolf Ludwig

Gustav 'Arndt' Brandt

Kurt Böwe

Gottlieb Wunderlich

Marianne Wünscher

Barbara Wunderlich

Detlef Gieß

Fritz Seidelmann

Ulrich Mühe

Siegfried Strauch

Andreas Herrmann

Eduard Hauser

Heike Meyer

Angelika Hofmann

Hans-Joachim Brieske

Franz Siebert

Jenny Gröllmann

Frau Siebert

Barbara Dittus

Frau Seidelmann