
86 minutes
1/19/1962
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.

Gerry Wolff
as Oberleutnant Schneider
Kurt Conradi
as Leutnant Anders

Johannes Arpe
as Paul Gäbler
Ruth Kommerell
as Erna Gäbler, seine Frau

Rudolf Ulrich
as Fritz Gäbler, Pauls Bruder

Marianne Wünscher
as Martha Demuth

Ingeborg Krabbe
as Edith Kolbe

Günter Schubert
as Lothar

Hans Lucke

Albert Garbe

Walfriede Schmitt

Hans Klering

Rolf Römer

Manfred Borges

Elfriede Florin
Sonja Hörbing
Horst Lommatzsch

Gertrud Brendler
Hans Finohr
as Bruno Schönherr
Rudolf Fleck

Dietmar Richter-Reinick

Walter Richter-Reinick

Jochen Thomas
Rudolf Christoph
Hans Flössel
Charlotte Friedrich
Bella Waldritter

Trude Bechmann
Manfred Ott
Hermann Eckhardt

Otmar Richter
Walter E. Fuß
Jürgen Rothert
Willi Neuenhahn
Ruth Glöss
Frank Michelis
Lisa Wehn
Peter Festersen
Günter Rüger
Albert Zahn
Hans Winter