One Has To Be The Corpse
1978, German. Directed by Iris Gusner.
A group of tourists from the GDR spend their holiday at the coast of Bulgaria. When making a trip to a small fisher house, they have to stay they night, because the ship's motor broke down. One of the group proposes a game: Someone has to be a corpse, one the detective and another one the murderer. But shortly after starting the game the "corpse" has vanished only to befound at the foot of the nearby cliff - being dead for real. Now the group start their investigation...
- Runtime
- 1h 23m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- German
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Cast & crew
- Iris GusnerDirector
- Ruth KommerellMagda Bähreis
- Veliko StoianovBootführer Wassil
- Gertraud KreissigPitty
- Giso WeißbachPeter Bockisch
- Monika WoytowiczSusanne
- Hansjürgen HürrigHans Fielitz
- Hannes FischerHans-Peter Maiendorff
- Helmut StraßburgerDr. Franz Enderlein
- Marylu PoolmanJohanna Enderlein
- Karin GregorekEvelyn Kunack
- Otto MelliesDr. Egon Kunack
- Zhana StoyanovichReiseleiterin Shana
Details
- Released
- 3 February 1978
- Original title
- Einer muß die Leiche sein
- Country
- Germany, East Germany
- Written by
- Iris Gusner
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One Has To Be The Corpse runs 83 minutes (1h 23m).
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One Has To Be The Corpse isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 3 February 1978. (Checked 10 November 2026.)
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If you liked One Has To Be The Corpse, try No One Would Tell, The Parts You Lose, Appointment with Death.
Who directed One Has To Be The Corpse?
One Has To Be The Corpse (1978) was directed by Iris Gusner and stars Ruth Kommerell, Veliko Stoianov, Gertraud Kreissig.