Character Relationship Map: Jack the Ripper

Characters

• Dr. Dennis Orloff / Jack the Ripper (played by Klaus Kinski) — protagonist

  A respected and charitable doctor by day, Orloff becomes a brutal serial killer at night, murdering and mutilating young women in Whitechapel. He secretly disposes of their bodies with help from a for...

• Cynthia (played by Josephine Chaplin) — supporting

  Selby's young fiancée and a dancer, Cynthia assists the investigation by posing as a woman of loose morals at a cabaret used as hunting ground by the killer. Orloff abducts her in a carriage and takes...

• Inspektor Selby (played by Andreas Mannkopff) — supporting

  The inspector assigned to investigate the murders, Selby struggles to stop the killer and turns to his young fiancée Cynthia for help. After receiving crucial information from a blind man with a sixth...

• Charlie, the Fisherman (played by Herbert Fux) — supporting

  Charlie is the blind man whose unusual sixth sense provides the breakthrough in the investigation. His information enables Selby and the police to locate the killer's greenhouse and intervene in time...

• Marika Stevenson (played by Lina Romay) — supporting
• Frieda (played by Nikola Weisse) — supporting
• Ms. Higgins (played by Ursula von Wiese) — supporting
• Mrs. Stevenson (played by Angelika Arndts) — supporting
• Mrs. Baxter (played by Olga Gebhard) — supporting
• Sally Brown (played by Francine Custer) — supporting
• Mr. Bridger (played by Hans Gaugler) — supporting
• Policeman (played by Roman Huber) — minor
• Jeanny (played by Esther Studer) — minor
• Piano Player (played by Walter Baumgartner) — minor
• Lulu (played by Lorli Bucher) — minor
• Sergeant Ruppert (played by Peter Nüsch) — minor
• Blondy (played by Regine Elsener) — minor
• Coach Driver (played by Mike Lederer) — minor
• Charlie's Friend (played by Otto Dornbierer) — minor
• Policeman (played by Markus Gehrig) — minor

Story Analysis

A dual-life physician hunts women to erase maternal trauma while a dancer becomes police bait.

Plot Progression

1. The Shadowed Physician
2. The Lure and the Trap
3. The Greenhouse Siege
4. Cynical Aftermath