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
as
Albert Garbe
as
Walfriede Schmitt
as
Hans Klering
as
