Jack, celebrated as a „clink-writer“, demonised as a „bitch murderer“. The fictitious documentation of a unique crime.

1976 Jack Unterweger is sentenced to lifelong prison for murdering a young woman. After twenty years he gets again life sentence: He is suspected of having murdered nine prostitutes, from Prague via Vienna to Los Angeles, from 1990 to 1992. Unterweger hangs himself in his prison cell. In between, he is in prison for 16 years and writes a novel that makes him promptly a star: Fegefeuer oder die Reise ins Zuchthaus. Jack Unterweger is the highly acclaimed “slammer-poet”, the celebrated “clink-writer”, and in 1990, with the support of influential personalities of cultural life and politics, he was let go as a classic example of successful social rehabilitation. Four months later, however, the body of a murdered prostitute is found, then another one, another one, finally it’s nine of them. All of them strangled with their bras, the act of a serial killer. Jack Unterweger flees, but he doesn’t escape. John Leake approaches the crime and the personality of Jack Unterweger both in a documentary and fictitious way. He keeps to the facts, stays sober-minded in the light of the fascinating-monstrous; he goes into detail without losing himself in it; he tells a true story that could have been this way.