Gesches Gift feature film, D 1997, 95 min, colour www.josthering.de www.zdf.de director script dop music production dept.    Exposè Walburg von Waldenfels Walburg von Waldenfels/Christian Frosch Krzystof Ptak Peter Ludwig/Paul Browse Jost Hering Filmproduktion in Co-Produktion mit ZDF "Gesche's Poison" is a psychological portrait of the murderess, Gesche Gottfried, who was the last woman to be publicly executed in Bremen, 1831. Gesche Gottfried, known to her neighbours and friends as an upright Christian, loving mother, and dutiful wife, poisoned her parents, her brother, two husbands, and three children: all within a span of 15 years. Although she never denied her deeds during her trial, she also never gave any reason for her actions. "Gesche's Poison" is a poetic thriller, which instead of answering questions prefers to pull the audience into Gesche's world: a romantic world in which the dead are omnipresent.