The trail leads to the 7th heaven

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Movie
Original title The trail leads to the 7th heaven
Country of production GDR
original language German
Publishing year 1963
length 257 minutes
Rod
Director Rudi Kurz
script Rudi Kurz
Karl Georg Külb
production DEFA , KAG “concrete”
on behalf of the DFF
music Wolfgang Hohensee
camera Helmut Grewald ,
Klaus Groch
cut Thea Richter
occupation

The track leads to the 7th heaven is a five-part crime television film by the German TV radio (DFF) by Rudi Kurz from 1963 . The five-part crime film was based on a script written jointly by Karl Georg Külb and Rudi Kurz. The premiere and German language first broadcast took place on December 12, 1963 in the program of the German television station (DFF) .

action

The Viennese detective commissioner Hermann Müller, supported by his assistants Kasparek and Haberkorn, has to deal with a number of murders and other crimes, the traces of which are all in the nightclub “7. Heaven ”lead. In this very exclusive club the elegant living world of Vienna pervades: rich snobs, gamblers and pimps of the bourgeois society. In the “7. Heaven ”, mysterious things also happen, all of which corroborate the suspicions of the criminal police.

Characteristic features

The song performed by Vera Oelschlegel as Janine in a scene is doubled purely vocally by the French chanson singer Nicole Felix. In addition, the director Rudi Kurz , in a scene as a chemist, also makes a brief appearance in front of the camera. The Austrian dialect performed by some of the actors sounds convincing and realistic. What is also no wonder, since most of them like Peter Sturm , Thomas Weisgerber , Horst Schäfer, Katja Paryla , Erika Pelikowsky or Otto Stark had Austrian roots or had previously spent a not inconsiderable period of their lives in the Alps.

background

In December 1963, TV competition between the systems for the GDR , along with ARD , had grown to include ZDF , which was only launched in April of that year . This competitive situation has always been a delicate matter, especially in the area of ​​crime genre. On the one hand, the German TV Broadcasting Corporation (DFF) in Berlin-Adlershof did not want to do without this genre, which promised the viewers entertainment, excitement, but also relaxation. After all, crime films and crime games were by far the most popular genre in the GDR that potential TV viewers wanted to see in the evening program of the DFF from 8:00 p.m. Only in second and third place followed, at a considerable distance, from feature films, television films and entertainment programs. On the other hand, however, according to the officially valid view , the ground had been removed from the crime in the GDR by the real socialism that was now in force , especially since the wall was built on August 13, 1961 . So where do the cases come from? Since, according to this point of view, the causes of crime could only lie on the western side, the television thrillers produced for the DFF from 1961 onwards continued to play exclusively there and, in their course of action, mostly had ideologically colored allusions and references to harmful influences from the West or social differences in East and West. The 5-part production “The track leads to 7 Heaven” from 1963, however, does not contain any such references or allusions. What can possibly also be seen in the fact that the film is not set directly on the West German side, but in neutral Austria , which was also recognized by the GDR at the time . It wasn't until 1971 that there was something like a GDR television thriller of its own with the police call 110 .

DVD release

On May 24, 2015, this DFF production by Studio Hamburg Enterprises , complete and unabridged, as well as digitally restored, was published as part of the DVD edition DDR TV-Archiv .

Episode list

No.
( total ) 		No.
( St. ) 		Original title First broadcast in GDR Director
1 1 First part December 12, 1963, DFF Rudi Kurz
In the late evening several visitors were at the jeweler Pröbstel, who was found murdered the next morning. A second crime occurs a little later. Various suspects may be responsible for the violent death of moneylender Josef Lehnert ...

Duration: 56:21

2 2 Second part December 14, 1963, DFF Rudi Kurz
Playboy Bob Radtke is suspected of murdering old Lehnert. Since Bob continues to protest his innocence in custody, Emmi Lehnert comes under suspicion. At the masked ball in the “7th Heaven “another murder. The victim is Cesare Cenutti ...

Duration: 51:15

3 3 third part December 15, 1963, DFF Rudi Kurz
Emmi Lehnert makes a suicide attempt. When she comes to, she accuses herself of murdering her father and Cenutti. When she is not believed, she claims that her brother, the consul Arthur Lehnert, committed the two murders. A little later, Emmi is murdered with a wire loop ...

Duration: 45:14

4th 4th fourth part December 17, 1963, DFF Rudi Kurz
The attempted murder of Emmi Lehnert failed. She fears that her brother is now trying to kill her. When the police began to hunt the tennis trainer Bernd Vanderheyd and Freddy Zahbusch, the waiter from the “7. Heaven ”, another murder occurs: Consul Arthur Lehnert has been poisoned ...

Duration: 50:30

5 5 Part five December 19, 1963, DFF Rudi Kurz
Consul Lehnert is found poisoned in his hunting lodge. Suicide is confirmed on the basis of a suicide note. However, the authenticity of the letter is questioned. Finally, new investigations bring to light the criminal past of an already almost exonerated suspect. When he is charged with the murders, he tries to escape ...

Duration: 52:55

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The trail leads to the 7th heaven . Internet Movie Database. February 16, 2016. Retrieved February 16, 2016.
  2. ↑ The trail leads to the 7th heaven . In: fernsehenderddr.de . February 16, 2016. Retrieved February 16, 2016.
  3. ↑ The trail leads to the 7th heaven . In: fernsehenderddr.de . February 16, 2016. Retrieved February 16, 2016.
  4. ↑ DRA Special No. 20: Detective films on GDR television - an overview of the holdings from September 20, 2008, in the foreword on page 3, published by the German Broadcasting Archive Foundation (DRA)
  5. ↑ DRA Special No. 20: Detective films on GDR television - an overview of the holdings from September 20, 2008, in the foreword on page 3, published by the German Broadcasting Archive Foundation (DRA)
  6. ↑ Sebastian Pfau: From serial to serial. Changes in GDR television , Leipziger Universitätsverlag 2009
  7. ↑ The trail leads to the 7th heaven . In: presse.studio-hamburg-enterprises . April 24, 2015. Accessed June 9, 2017.
  8. ↑ The trail leads to the 7th heaven . In: fernsehenderddr.de . February 16, 2016. Retrieved February 16, 2016.
  9. ↑ The trail leads to the 7th heaven . In: fernsehenderddr.de . February 16, 2016. Retrieved February 16, 2016.
  10. ↑ The trail leads to the 7th heaven . In: fernsehenderddr.de . February 16, 2016. Retrieved February 16, 2016.
  11. ↑ The trail leads to the 7th heaven . In: fernsehenderddr.de . February 16, 2016. Retrieved February 16, 2016.
  12. ↑ The trail leads to the 7th heaven . In: fernsehenderddr.de . February 16, 2016. Retrieved February 16, 2016.