Via Mala (TV series)
Via Mala is a 1985 television series, based on the 1934 novel "Via Mala" by John Knittel. It was made as a co-production between West Germany, France, Italy and Austria. The novel had previously been made into two films "Via Mala" (1945) and "Via Mala" (1961). Synopsis. Jonas Lauretz the owner of a sawmill in a village in Switzerland is a tyrannical person disliked by all his family and neighbours. When he is killed, almost everyone is suspected of murdering him before prime suspicion falls on his daughter.