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.
Directed by Heinz Thiel
Gerry Wolff
Oberleutnant Schneider
Kurt Conradi
Leutnant Anders
Johannes Arpe
Paul Gäbler
Ruth Kommerell
Erna Gäbler, seine Frau
Rudolf Ulrich
Fritz Gäbler, Pauls Bruder
Marianne Wünscher
Martha Demuth
Ingeborg Krabbe
Edith Kolbe
Günter Schubert
Lothar
