Shot through the window
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Shot through the window |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1950 |
| length | 93 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Siegfried Breuer |
| script |
Rolf Olsen Siegfried Breuer |
| production | Alpen-Film Austria AFA (Graz) |
| music | Willy Schmidt-Gentner |
| camera | Helmuth Fischer-Ashley |
| cut | Karl Aulitzky |
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Shot through the window is an Austrian crime film made in 1949 by the actor Siegfried Breuer , who is directing here for the first time. At his side, Curd Jürgens , in whose production Prämien auf den Tod Breuer had played the leading role immediately before, plays another leading role. Gunther Philipp in the key role of the idiosyncratic detective assistant played his first leading role here.
action
Detective assistant Jelinek is once again frustrated. He has just come out of a cinema and had to watch what exciting crimes his American (film) colleagues are allowed to solve while he has to grapple with the everyday little things. The latest case also belongs in this category: Jelinek is called to a chemical factory, where the accountant noticed that 2,400 Austrian schillings (around € 175) are missing from the till. When Jelinek interrogated the employee, Miss Reisinger, who was obviously talking to the laboratory chemist Dr. Winkler shares a secret, a shot is fired that breaks through the window and kills the interviewee. Jelinek then calls his superior for help. Detective Dr. Rittner, a rather arrogant police superintendent, appears and orders Jelinek to come to him to make it clear to him that from now on he will conduct the investigation. But Jelinek senses his great opportunity and secretly continues his own research in the chemical plant. In the laboratory, which is located exactly opposite the room in which Miss Reisinger was shot, Jelinek finds the obvious murder weapon. Immediately he asks Dr. Winkler, much to the displeasure of his superior Rittner, who once again made it very clear to him that he should stay out of this case. Jelinek doesn't even think about it and follows another lead that leads him to the “Kakadu” nightclub. There he meets the company chauffeur Strinzel, who obviously has a relationship with the revue singer Grit Sorell.
In a conversation between the chemist Winkler and his girlfriend Maria Vogt, it became clear a little later that the murder of Miss Reisinger possibly happened because someone in possession of the secret test protocols of Dr. Winklers wanted to come. Winkler then announced that he would go back to the factory and take the documents home to be on the safe side. A second murder occurs the following night. This time one of the two secretaries on the night shift is the victim because the young lady, Miss Swoboda, briefly used the Dr. Winklers had entered. There she saw the broken safe from which the important Winkler papers had obviously been stolen. The perpetrator was still in the same room. Dr. Winkler, who has meanwhile arrived at the chemical plant, discovers the body in his laboratory and alerts the police. Police advisor Rittner then had Winkler temporarily arrested. In the meantime, a man reports to the company's director's office who confesses that he stole 2,400 schillings. It turns out that the thief was once married to the first murder victim, Miss Reisinger. Meanwhile, Jelinek finds himself in the "Kakadu" again and meets Strinzel there again, who is extremely nervous about the police presence. Obviously he is involved in the crimes. Jelinek puts pressure on Strinzel. Strinzel receives a mysterious call and he confesses that Jelinek is on his back. As a result, some crooks in a car attach themselves to Jelinek's tracks, but Jelinek can use a trick to outrun the dark guys. Jelinek returns to the "Kakadu", where the still hyper-nervous chauffeur Strinzel is waiting. When Strinzel disappears outside, Jelinek follows him and is ambushed by the allegedly shaken off gangsters who killed Strinzel and are now fighting a fist fight with Jelinek. With the help of the added grit, the detective assistant can escape the scoundrels.
In the meantime, detective inspector Rittner and a colleague Dr. Winkler sharply, who vehemently denies the murders of the two women. Rittner gets a call from Jelinek, who tells the inspector about his hot lead. He drives with his colleague to Kellermann's house, where all threads seem to come together. Maria Vogt, Winkler's friend, is already waiting there for the engineer to tell of her suspicions. For Kellermann this means danger. Maria is now trapped, because Kellermann confesses to her the murders and makes no secret of the fact that Maria will be his next victim. The reason for his actions are the documents Dr. Winklers, who contain an ingenious invention and which Kellermann desperately wants to turn into money. Jelinek intervenes, switches off the room lighting and thus helps the threatened Maria to escape. While Kellermann is preparing his own escape, the police are already approaching with full force. There is a violent exchange of fire between Kellermann's people and the police. Kellermann tries to pull away, but is caught up and overwhelmed by the fast-paced Jelinek. The clever detective assistant takes the papers stolen from Winkler's safe from his loden coat. On the drive home to the station, Rittner has to confess to Jelinek that he underestimated him. He is promoted immediately after his successful search for the perpetrator. At the end, Jelinek returns to the beginning of the film and is back in a movie theater to watch an American crime thriller called "The Glistening Snake".
Production notes
The shooting of Shot Through the Window began on September 19, 1949 and ended about two months later. The film was shot in Thalerhof near Graz (studio). The film premiered in the Scala-Lichtspiele in Frankfurt am Main on January 17, 1950; the Austrian premiere was in Vienna on March 3, 1950. It was first broadcast on German television on September 4, 1960 on ARD .
Herbert Sennewald took over the production management, Isabella Ploberger designed the film structures .
criticism
The Lexicon of the International Film found: “Several murders in the eerie atmosphere of an abandoned factory are solved by a clumsy detective assistant. Artistically and technically not worth mentioning, but still an exciting thriller. "
Individual evidence
- ^ Filmography Curd Jürgens in the German Film Institute
- ↑ Shot through the window. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed February 7, 2020 .
Web links
- Shot through the window in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Shot through the window at filmportal.de