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A Saturday evening dance in the village pub is interrupted when the barn of local farmer Paul Gäbler catches on fire. The farmer himself is soon found – hanged. Sawmill owner Züllich claims that Gäbler committed suicide because he was forced to join an agricultural production cooperative, but others are convinced Gäbler was murdered. Officers Schneider and Anders must navigate their way through a complex maze of personal and political motivations in order to reconstruct the crime.Read moreLess
A Saturday evening dance in the village pub is interrupted when the barn of local farmer Paul Gäbler catches on fire. The farmer himself is soon found – hanged. Sawmill owner Züllich claims that Gäbler committed suicide because he was forced to join an agricultural production cooperative, but others are convinced Gäbler was murdered. Officers Schneider and Anders must navigate their way through a complex maze of personal and political motivations in order to reconstruct the crime.
The story
A Saturday evening dance in the village pub is interrupted when the barn of local farmer Paul Gäbler catches on fire. The farmer himself is soon found – hanged. Sawmill owner Züllich claims that Gäbler committed suicide because he was forced to join an agricultural production cooperative, but others are convinced Gäbler was murdered. Officers Schneider and Anders must navigate their way through a complex maze of personal and political motivations in order to reconstruct the crime.
Cast & crew
Gerry WolffOberleutnant Schneider
Johannes ArpePaul Gäbler
Rudolf UlrichFritz Gäbler, Pauls Bruder
Marianne WünscherMartha Demuth
Ingeborg KrabbeEdith Kolbe
Günter SchubertLothar
Hans LuckeCast
Albert GarbeCast
Walfriede Schmitt
Hans KleringCastExplore the crew
- Director
- Heinz Thiel
- Writer
- Lothar Creutz
- Writer
- Carl Andrießen
- Editor
- Wally Gurschke