One is missing from the spa concert

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Movie
Original title One is missing from the spa concert
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1968
length 75 minutes
Rod
Director Jürgen Roland
script Jürgen Roland,
Hansjörg Martin
production Dieter Meichsner
music Siegfried Franz
camera Frank Banuscher
cut Monika Tadsen-Erfurth
occupation

One thing is missing from the spa concert is a TV film by Jürgen Roland , which was first broadcast on December 28, 1968 on ARD . The broadcast, filmed in black and white, was a production of the Norddeutscher Rundfunk .

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Police Superintendent Leo Klipp from Munich is a guest at Ms Trojan's holiday guesthouse on the fictional North Sea island of Langeney. The sisters Agathe and Hilde Brocksiepen stayed there with their wealthy ward Harald, as well as the Eisenreichs. Harald soon begins to turn the heads of the ladies around him with his charming manner. For his part, Klipp takes a liking to the young Czech Jana.

One morning Harald is found stabbed to death in his room. Since the criminal police from the mainland can only arrive on the island in the late afternoon due to the tide, Klipp, who previously only pretended to be a teacher (in fact, he is a teacher at a police school), recognizes himself as a police officer and begins to recognize the guests and Interviewing any employee of the boarding house among whom he suspects the murderer.

Suspect is the domestic servant Gesine, who was seen at night when she snuck through the house with a knife. Gesine escapes, but is found by Klipp in her brother Reent's house. Reent initially helps his sister to escape, but Klipp is able to catch Gesine, who admits the intention to kill, but not the act itself. As she stood with the knife in front of Harald's bed, she heard a noise, dropped the knife and ran away. This is how Dr. Eisenreich became the focus of the investigation, because Harald had ensnared Eisenreich's wife in public. Eisenreich initially vehemently denies the allegations, but under the pressure of Klipp's questioning, he finally admits the murder. At night he had followed his wife, who apparently wanted to see Harald. He saw the knife lying in front of the bed and stabbed the sleeping Harald in the heart with it.

Eisenreich asks to be allowed to put his confession in writing, and Klipp leaves him alone. Eisenreich uses this opportunity to cut his wrists. However, he is discovered in good time and taken to Dr. Button, who had already done the inquest. However, in the meantime, Knopf has found out that Harald was already dead when Eisenreich stabbed him. Rather, Harald was poisoned with chocolate, which leads Klipp on a different track. He found a box of chocolates in Agathe Brocksiepen's room and had the local pharmacist examine the contents for poison. Meanwhile, Klipp receives the news that Agathe has fled the pension, which he regards as an admission of guilt. However, he reacts helplessly to the negative result of the examination by the pharmacist who had given his white mice to eat the chocolates for test purposes.

Klipp then drives to the port, where the colleagues from the mainland have meanwhile arrived. They picked up Agathe in an unseaworthy rowboat near the harbor. Agathe admits that she wanted to evade imminent arrest in order to take care of her nephew's estate. With a trick, Klipp can finally expose Hilde Brocksiepen as a poisoner. She admits that she killed Harald out of greed and persuaded her sister to flee, in the hope that she would drown on the crossing so that she could inherit the inheritance on her own and escape the influence of her dominant sister.

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The model for the film, which was shot on the East Frisian island of Norderney and in Studio Hamburg, was the novel of the same name by Hansjörg Martin , who was also involved in the script. At the beginning, Jürgen Roland introduces the story with a few sentences and mentions that it was not one of his steel mesh productions, which were very popular at the time . On the other hand, one was often mistakenly assigned to the series Der Täter auf der Spur , also by Jürgen Roland, at the spa concert in the following years and is actually included in a corresponding DVD box.

The strings of the NDR dance and entertainment orchestra acted as the Langeney spa orchestra under the direction of Alfred home . At home, with a glued-on beard, he mimes the conductor who plays the Stahlnetz intro and is then reprimanded accordingly by Roland.

The Czech actress Jana Nováková (1948–1968) had also been seen in several German productions since the mid-1960s. In 1967 she married the 40-year-old businessman Eugen Gruber from Munich, who pursued her jealously during the filming process, whereupon Roland was banned from entering the Hamburg studio. On December 3, 1968, Gruber shot his wife before he committed suicide.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b One is missing from the spa concert on the crime thriller website
  2. ↑ Eckhard Mieder: Pitaval 68: Everywhere Beat and Minis , Das Blättchen from May 7, 2018