
They call him Jack
Marbach Studio’s next big project. It is the story of the so-called “Double Event,” Jack the Ripper’s double murder in one night.
Prostitute Elizabeth Stride was murdered on the night of September 30, 1888. Her body was found at 1:00 a.m. in Dutfield’s Yard on Berner Street in Whitechapel.
Unlike Mary Ann Nichols and Annie Chapman, Stride was not further mutilated except for having her throat cut. Sources who assume that Jack the Ripper was the murderer believe that the perpetrator was disturbed in his act by the arrival of a waiter from a neighboring restaurant with a cart.Just 44 minutes later, the body of Catherine Eddowes was found about a kilometer away in Mitre Square, City of London. After that, the Ripper presumably fled back to Whitechapel. Assuming that both were killed by the same person, the murderer of Catherine Eddowes may have completed what he was unable to do to Elizabeth Stride due to the disturbance.
However, the film is not set in the streets of London, but in the night editorial office of a newspaper. A group of journalists has gathered here in preparation for a new murder by Jack the Ripper. The journalists routinely process the first murder.
With the second murder, and the gruesome acts of Jack the Ripper, the atmosphere changes dramatically. Egos clash, emotions run high, and there are increasing indications that one journalist knows more about Jack the Ripper than he admits.
The question is: Is he Jack the Ripper’s accomplice, or is he the killer himself?



