Die diebische Elster

This one wants to be a zany caper so badly. A bookstore-owning burglar finds a corpse during a routine heist. Now she has to solve the murder to avoid charges for that and the initial crime. It’s mostly a very late entry in a specific '80s filmography.

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Hugh Wilson directed Die diebische Elster in 1987. See Hugh Wilson's full filmography, where to start with Hugh Wilson, or where to go after you've seen everything by Hugh Wilson.

Die diebische Elster was released in 1987 (EN original-language production), with a runtime of 103 minutes.