Foggy night

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Movie
Original title Foggy night
Country of production GDR
original language German
Publishing year 1969
length 85 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Helmut Nitzschke
script Heiner Rank
Helmut Nitzschke
production DEFA , KAG "Red Circle"
music Hans-Dieter Hosalla
camera Wolfgang Pietsch
cut Brigitte Krex
occupation

Nebelnacht is a German crime film of the DEFA of Helmut Nitzschke from the year 1969 .

action

On the nightly road, motorcyclist Peter Burgwedel is pushed off the road by a white Wartburg , he falls down a slope and dies at the scene of the accident. The police officers Oberleutnant Kreutzer and Unterleutnant Arnold start the investigation. Peter had taken several thousand marks from a cash box in his room for the purchase of the Wartburg and put a receipt in the box. When Kreutzer wants to see the receipt, it turns out that the cassette was stolen. In Peter's room there is also the advertisement announcing the sale of the Wartburg. Kreutzer and Arnold go to the advertiser's address. Dr. Nikolai, chief physician of a clinic, is surprised to see her because he never put an advertisement about the car sale in a newspaper. His signature on the advertisement form was forged; he himself was on duty at the time of the crime. Nevertheless, it turns out that his car was involved in the accident. However, Nikolai thought the destroyed flashing light and the scratch on the car was a parking accident and had it repaired immediately by the traveling seaman and mechanic Karl Svenson. He needs the car regularly during work.

Although Nikolai has an alibi, he behaves strangely and it soon becomes clear why. In Katja Alverdes, in the same place where Peter lived, he has a much younger girlfriend. He wants to keep the relationship from going public to avoid gossip. Katja, in turn, used to be with Peter, but broke up with him before the relationship with Nikolai. Nikolai and Peter only met for the first time the day before Peter's death. Meanwhile, Nikolai is threatened by an anonymous caller. Due to various coincidences, Nikolai also has to believe that either Katja or his son Dieter are involved in the murder. It soon turns out that the perpetrators are con artists, so the Kranepuhl couple also paid a deposit on the car. The fraudsters gave them an envelope on which Nikolai's address was written with an electric typewriter. The typewriter can be identified as a machine stolen some time ago via a typing sample. At that time, the young Werner Findeisen was under suspicion. In view of the possible involvement in a murder, Werner admits that he stole the typewriter with other things. Back then he had hidden it in his cabin, but it was stolen from him himself after a short time. He suspects a colleague behind the robbery, as his dog did not strike back then. In fact, it turns out that the convicted Bruno Hecht, son of the workshop manager Herrmann, for whom Karl Svenson also works, had stolen the typewriter. He wanted to prove something to his colleagues and makes it clear that he is also participating in the scam involving cars for down payments, but only because he was blackmailed.

The police arrest Bruno and find Karl Svenson in his cabin, who packs Bruno's things and removes all fingerprints from the equipment with a cloth. Kreutzer forces him to play a tape recorder that he is holding in his hand. The slogan with which the anonymous caller once tried to scare Nikolai can be heard from the tape - Svenson's voice. Svenson is also arrested and turns out to be the main culprit. Peter knew Nikolai from the first meeting the day before. He happened to meet Svenson at Nikolai's Wartburg when he was about to start a new cheating maneuver with Bruno and spoke to him because the car obviously did not belong to him after all. Although Svenson said he was selling on Nikolai's behalf, Peter now wanted to withdraw from the purchase and have his money back. Svenson agreed, but the receipt for the down payment was still in Peter's room and so Peter drove home with the Wartburg behind him. Since Svenson feared that Peter would report him, he took the opportunity and pushed Peter off the road on a steep curve. Bruno was in the car and was threatened with death by Svenson if he unpacked. Together they then drove to Peter's apartment and stole the cassette with the receipt. Bruno, on the other hand, only participated in the scams, as Svenson put him under pressure because of the stolen typewriter. Svenson, in turn, drew suspicion on Nikolai, hoping that the sensitive doctor would do something to himself in the end and thus make an indirect admission of guilt.

production

Nebelnacht is based on the crime novel of the same name by Heiner Rank , who was also involved in the script. It was Helmut Nitzschke's directorial debut and one of the first major film roles for Sabine Krug (in the film Kranepuhl's wife), who had a fatal accident in the summer of 1969.

The film premiered on June 12, 1969 in Karl-Marx-Stadt and was released in GDR cinemas on July 4, 1969. On November 28, 1970 he ran for the first time on DFF 1 on television in the GDR.

criticism

Renate Holland-Moritz called the plot "implausible from A to Z, because it was not motivated, on the screen there are no characters, but schemes".

Frank-Burkhard Habel stated that the viewer "was asked to combine the film, which was not easy, if not impossible, because of the confusion of the plot."

"Dramaturgically confused, psychologically tense, inadequate in the actors' management," said the film service .

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. Nebelnacht on defa.de
  2. ^ Renate Holland-Moritz: cinema owl . In: Eulenspiegel , No. 28, 1969.
  3. ↑ F.-B. Habel : The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , pp. 433 .
  4. ↑ Foggy night. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used