
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
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

Hans Lucke

Albert Garbe

Walfriede Schmitt

Hans Klering

Rolf Römer

Manfred Borges

Elfriede Florin
Sonja Hörbing
Horst Lommatzsch

Gertrud Brendler
Hans Finohr
Bruno Schönherr
Rudolf Fleck
Heinz Thiel
Lothar Creutz, Carl Andrießen
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