An alibi breaks
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| Original title | An alibi breaks |
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| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1963 |
| length | 97 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Alfred Vohrer |
| script | Herbert Reinecker |
| production | Sascha film industry ( Herbert Gruber ) |
| music | Peter Thomas |
| camera | Friedl Behn-Grund |
| cut | Arnfried Heyne |
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Breaking an Alibi is an Austrian crime film directed by Alfred Vohrer from 1963 . The film was shot from September to October 1963 in Vienna and in the Rosenhügel film studios . The first performance was on November 29, 1963 in the mass start.
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Dr. Maria Rohn takes over the legal defense for a truck driver who has killed a man on the nightly motorway. The man, Siebeck, claims that two men dragged the run-over onto the street and threw him directly in front of his car; he could no longer avoid it. The police don't believe Siebeck, but his lawyer senses that he is telling the truth.
In the evening she tells her husband Günther about her new case. He reacts in an unusual way and tries to persuade Maria to hand over the case. However, she is researching the matter of her own accord and independently of the police investigation, because the story does not leave her alone and also because the deceased could not be identified. On the homicide squad, she sees a drawing that is supposed to represent the dead person. The drawing is not very meaningful, but the face of the murdered man is probably even less suitable for recognition ... She asks that the drawing be published in the newspaper, which leads to the desired success, because the man is recognized by a hotel porter. It is a civil engineer named Kessler from Kaiserslautern. When it turns out that someone paid Kessler's hotel bill and took his luggage with them when the man was already dead, the suspicion grows that it was murder and not an accident. Maria reports to Günther about her successful detective work and Siebeck's release from prison. It is becoming more and more hostile and aggressive. By chance she discovers a note from her husband on which the name Kessler appears. But he must have made this note before she told him the dead man's name. Deeply concerned, she confronts her husband. He admits that he knew Kessler from those early days of development after the war. It turns out that his closest associates and colleagues, Dr. Hartleben and Wasneck are also involved in something related to Kessler. Kessler fought the dirtiest for clients and benefices at the time and ended up in prison for a few years as a result. Just released, he went to Rohn, Hartleben and Wasneck in order to blackmail them with his knowledge of a manslaughter committed at the time. An argument broke out and it was decided that Kessler had to be silenced.
Next to the run-over one found broken glasses, which, however, it turned out, did not belong to him. Maria adds detail to detail in her research and the puzzle shows her a terrible picture. Her husband and his colleagues are directly involved in the case, maybe even the killers of Kessler. First Hartleben, then Wasneck too, try to warn Maria not to corner Rohn any further, and Wasneck's wife too, Hanne tries in vain to persuade Maria to be loyal to her husband.
When all of this fails and Maria sees no other way than to bring the truth to light in order to bring the guilty to their just punishment, the last remnant of feeling between the Rohns is broken, and Günter decides that his wife must die. Supported by his partners Hartleben and Wasneck and his wife Hanne, he plans a staged and fatal accident for Maria. Hanne is supposed to appear at the construction site at night, wrapped in a striking coat from Maria, and be seen there, while Rohn has arranged that the housekeeper will see him at home. Maria is drugged and driven to the construction site. Wasneck is looking for his wife, because Maria is supposed to wear her coat when she is later found dead. Homicide officers appear on the construction site after they have come to the same investigation results as Maria and have realized that she is in great danger. The officials have the lights switched on at the nightly construction site. Wasneck finds Hanne, who fell from an unsecured upper floor, dead on the floor. Hartleben is arrested. For Wasneck, life without Hanne is pointless and he does not defend himself against arrest. Rohn tries to escape through the construction site, followed by a police officer whom he shoots. Maria follows him and picks up the pistol that fell from the policeman's hand and a short time later the couple stands across from each other, both with a gun, which they point at their partner. Wasneck wants to prevent the only one free from guilt so far from becoming a murderer in this desperate situation. He uses a moment in which all eyes are on the couple and ignores them, takes a pistol and shoots Rohn.
The opening credits indicate that the film is based on an actual occurrence.
Reviews
"[...] so that you can highlight this over-richly dialogue-covered, elegantly presented, well-backgrounded and technically clean strip as NOT a LEUWERIK-FILM, but for [...] you can take it in a very exciting way."
“Judgment film interested more in decor than people; superficial and sterile staged "
Web links
- An alibi shatters in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- An alibi breaks at filmportal.de
- An alibi breaks ( memento from December 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) at deutscher-tonfilm.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ An alibi breaks. In: old.filmarchiv.at. Paimann's film lists , No. 2833_1, January 7, 1964, archived from the original on October 14, 2016 ; accessed on October 14, 2016 .
- ↑ An alibi breaks. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed August 27, 2017 .
