You don't hear a shot in a westerly wind

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Movie
Original title You don't hear a shot in a westerly wind
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1976
length 65 minutes
Rod
Director Sepp Strubel
script Sepp Strubel
music Manitas de Plata
camera Manfred Lowack
cut Brigitte Rothert-Lässig ,
Beate Gottschall
occupation

You don't hear a shot at Westwind is a TV film by Sepp Strubel . It was first broadcast on December 8, 1976 in the evening program of ARD . The Hessischer Rundfunk was in charge of the production .

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A television team wants to make a film about the breeding behavior of the seagulls. To do this, Anselm Kiwitt, Jochen Kieselack and Harry Jungnickel go to the fictional East Frisian North Sea island of Mellogg. During the crossing they meet the reserved biologist Dr. Know Schlünz, who wants to research the island flora. The only residents of Mellogg are the angular island bailiff Dirksen and his pretty daughter Swantje. Jochen and Harry soon begin to vie for the young girl's favor, which neither Kiwitt nor Dirksen remains hidden and they both dislike. In the period that followed, there were repeated verbal arguments between the young men.

One evening, Dr. Nearly the victim of an unknown marksman who shoots the biologist in the dark, but only hits his hat. Jochen is caught the following evening, but he gets away with a graze on the arm. The already charged atmosphere experiences another climax when Kiwitt catches his colleague Jungnickel in bed with Swantje. Kiwitt expressly disapproves of Jungnickel's behavior, as the inexperienced Swantje is already forging plans for the future with Harry, but this Kiwitt is known as an outright philanderer.

The next morning Harry lies dead on the beach - shot. The criminal police now arriving from the mainland begin to investigate and discover a loaded hunting rifle in a shed by the house. Corresponding ammunition was found in the immediate vicinity of the murder victim. Although it was found right next to Jochen's chamber, Jochen denies knowing the rifle. Finally, Dr. Schlünz agrees to be the owner of the weapon that he brought to the island as packaged fishing gear. He wanted to avenge the death of his son Bernhard, who drowned two years ago in a storm off Mellogg, for which he blames Dirksen. Bernhard and a friend had set out on Mellogg to cook something, but Dirksen drove them away, even though he knew a storm was coming. The boys left the island and got caught in the storm in which the boat finally capsized. The friend could be saved, for Bernhard any help came too late. He, Schlünz, had contacted Dirksen in order to carry out research as an alleged biologist and thus be close to the Vogt. In truth, his name is Ebeling and he is the manager of a savings bank branch. He shot through his hat himself in order to initially divert suspicion that the attack on Jochen was a mistake because it was dark and Jochen was wearing the captain's cap. After the shot at Jochen, he refrained from his plan and buried the rifle in a rabbit hole.

Now the suspicion falls again on Kieselack, to which the commissioner alleged to have taken the rifle and to have killed his colleague due to the ongoing arguments about Swantje. But Kiwitt is able to present the police with a handwritten note that he found on the body. Swantje invites Harry to a meeting in the dunes, but the young woman denies that it is her handwriting. So the inspector asks everyone present to do a written sample, but Dirksen gets ahead of him. Threatening those present with a gun, he confesses to having written the note. By chance he overheard Dr. Schlünz alias Ebeling had hidden the hunting rifle, accepted it and again happened to overhear the conversation between Kiwitt and Jungnickel described above. He then put the note in Jungnickel's pocket, lured him into the dunes, shot him there and then hid the murder weapon in the shed. After this confession, Dirksen flees to the water, gets on a small motorboat and drives out to sea. Although the end remains open, it can be assumed that the island bailiff will perish in the upcoming storm and deliberately chose suicide.

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The script is based on the novel of the same name by Hansjörg Martin , who himself took on the small role of the police doctor. In the opening credits the film is referred to as the "island ballad". In his role as Anselm Kiwitt, Wolfgang Kieling occasionally acts as an off-speaker. The film is underlaid with the music of the French guitarist Manitas de Plata .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ With Westwind you don't hear a shot on the crime thriller homepage, accessed on February 24, 2020