Tobias Schenke, Sebastian Urzendowsky, Walter Gontermann. Based on a true story, this 15-year-old boy with abusive and unaffectionate adoptive parents, killed four schoolboys between 1962 and 1966 in Germany's Ruhr District. He was caught at age 19. This journey into his psyche encapsulates his horrific crimes with reenactments and details from his own letters and statements. In German with English subtitles. 2002/color/86 min/NR/widescreen.