Mink at night by the roadside

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Movie
Original title Mink at night by the roadside
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1973
length 85 minutes
Rod
Director Wolfgang Staudte
script Bruno Hampel
camera Gero Erhardt ,
Uwe Bauer
cut Erich Rohlf
occupation

Mink at night on the roadside is a television film by Wolfgang Staudte . This ZDF production was first broadcast on August 24, 1973 during prime time.

action

The Hamburg detective Heinz Ebeling is on the way to Frankfurt in his car because of a testimony. Even before Hanover, his windshield splinters and he heads for the next rest area. A helpful truck driver also notices a defect in the fuel pump, but points out a car repair shop in Welzheim, a few kilometers away. Ebeling then continues on foot in the darkness which has now fallen. Shortly before entering the town he meets a group of young men who are reloading objects between two small trucks. First they flee, but when Ebeling discovers some fur coats on the floor, he is knocked down from behind and the men are able to escape.

Ebeling takes a room in the only inn in the village and gets to know the master locksmith Schumm, the local policeman, police chief regulator, and the forester Wussow, whom he tells about the attack. During the inspection of the crime scene the next morning, Ebeling mentions that one of the young men was called “Hotte”, which is where Regulator immediately knows. Ebeling also made the acquaintance of the landowner Charlotte Karding and her son Bodo. Workshop owner Schumm then informs Ebeling about "Hotte" alias Horst Wussow, a convicted haulier in the village. Horst is the forester's nephew, he and his sister Gisela were raised by their uncle after their parents died in an accident. While Gisela lives with old Wussow and runs the house for him, Horst has fallen out with his uncle and lives with the old woman Büttner in the village. While the conversation was still going on, Horst was taken to the police station, but was able to escape from the cell a short time later.

Ebeling is offered a surprise by the innkeeper Busemann, who informs him that the room he lives in has already been reserved, as have all the other rooms. While Ebeling is packing, Ms. Busemann shows him various newspaper clippings from last year's attack on the inn. When Ebeling wants to know whether Horst is behind it, the innkeeper leaves it at hints. Ebeling is accepted by forester Wussow, where he meets his niece Gisela. He then drives to the manor house with Wussow and is there to clarify a break-in that recently took place and in which two valuable paintings were stolen. Details of the break-in make Ebeling prick up his ears. On the way back through the forest, shots suddenly rang out, but the alleged attack turned out to be a stranger's target practice on tin cans.

In the evening Wussow found his dog poisoned, a few minutes later he was shot himself through the closed window in his house. Shortly before his death, Wussow utters a few words in Ebeling's presence: "Letter", "the day before yesterday" and "Nice" as well as another word that he interprets as "smooth". The incoming criminal police from Hanover, led by Inspector Köhler, secure a shoe print and a cartridge case in front of the window. The officers next search Ms. Büttner's yard and find various mink coats in a shed as well as the murder weapon and a pair of shoes that match the shoe print. Koehler then lets Horst Wussow write out to be searched.

Back at the inn, Busemann offers Ebeling his old room again and admits that it was Hotte who threatened the innkeeper with demolishing his furnishings if he “didn't bring the Hamburg cop out by noon”. By chance, Ebeling met the mail carrier Klatt the next morning and it became clear to him that the dying Wussow was talking about the postman. Ebeling learns from Klatt that the forester had given the forester a few letters for the Kardings a few days earlier, as Wussow was on his way to the manor house anyway. Among them was a letter with French postage stamps to Bodo Karding. Ebeling visits Gisela again, who confirms Klatt's testimony and also that her uncle had a letter with him when he returned from Kardings, which he opened under steam and then apparently telephoned Bodo Karding, because Wussow literally said: “Me give you three days, then I'll talk to your mother. ”Ebeling finds the letter in Wussow's files and now knows that Bodo was behind the break-in and theft of the paintings.

At Ebeling's insistence, Gisela finally announces her brother's whereabouts and they both go to him. After Ebeling has assured that he is no longer being searched for as a murderer, Horst initially admits that the mink coats were only a favor for a friend whose father is a bankrupt fur trader and has the coats safe want to bring so that they do not fall into the bankruptcy estate. He committed the break-in and theft on behalf of Bodo Karding, who switched off the alarm system before leaving the house - he was in the theater with his mother at the time of the crime. He then handed the pictures to a stranger in a car with a French license plate at a motorway parking lot.

Together with Commissioner Köhler, Ebeling visits the Kardings. With their questions, the officials are so cornering Bodo that he betrays himself and indirectly admits that he was behind the bogus break-in because the Kardings' property was over-indebted. During a search of Bodo's room, Ebeling finds a box of ammunition that is missing a cartridge. Confronted with the fact that this is the same caliber with which Wussow was shot, Bodo admits the murder. He killed the forester because he was aware of the background to the break-in based on the intercepted letter and wanted to make the matter public. Bodo is arrested and a little later Ebeling is able to continue the journey with his car, which Schumm has now repaired.

Others

The film is based on motifs from the novel Fire on My Head by Hansjörg Martin . The film was shot from January to February 1973 in the Hamburg Hamburg-Wandsbek studio .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mink at night on the roadside on the crime thriller website , accessed on February 28, 2020
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Staudte - actor, director . In: CineGraph - Lexicon for German-Language Films, Lg. 20, F 28