Tanz am Sonnabend-Mord?

Tanz am Sonnabend-Mord?

86 mins | Crime | Jan. 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.

Tanz am Sonnabend-Mord?

86 mins | Crime | Jan. 19, 1962

Tanz am Sonnabend-Mord?
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.
Producers DEFA
Original title Tanz am Sonnabend-Mord?
Directors Heinz Thiel
Writers Carl Andrießen, Lothar Creutz

Cast

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