Steel mesh: burned traces
| Episode in the series Stahlnetz | |
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| Original title | Burned traces |
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| Country of production | Federal Republic of Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
North and West German Broadcasting Association |
| length | 71 minutes |
| classification | Episode 11 ( list ) |
| First broadcast | July 27, 1960 on Das Erste |
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| Director | Jürgen Roland |
| script | Wolfgang crowd |
| production | Erich Holder |
| camera | Günter Haase |
| cut | Johanna Riedel |
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Burned Traces is the 11th crime film in the Stahlnetz television series . The German premiere took place on 27 July 1960 at 20.20 in the preliminary program of the ARD .
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In the small Holstein village of Pritzin, Farmer Cohr's barn is on fire. Even before the fire brigade has completely extinguished the fire, the remains of a cremated corpse are discovered in the rubble. Even while Detective Inspector Strobel from the homicide squad in Rendsburg only knows that the body is a woman, rumors of the possible arsonist are already spreading in the village . Strobel finds the curious horse breeder von Altmann particularly suspicious. But insurance fraud by the barn owner also seems possible.
In Rendsburg, Inspector Strobel learns from the autopsy report that the dead woman was four months pregnant. At the crime scene in Pritzin, the forensic team found a shoe buckle, a belt buckle and the remains of a book, among other things. Criminal chief secretary Eismann smuggled his way into von Altmanns Gutshof as a horse painter. But neither his daughter Beate nor the visitor Nancy from England seem to know anything. Even in the local inn, Eismann only hears various rumors about the crime.
The homicide squad found out that the remains of the book were two volumes of the novel Debit and Credit . Meanwhile, an exhumation and a new autopsy of the corpse also bring new findings . It is now certain that the burned woman was already dead before she burned. The inspector learns that a certain Carola Poppe is missing in Hamburg , whose description fits the latest investigations. The mother of the young woman tells Strobel and Eismann that their daughter wanted to visit her fiancé Anton Reisiger in Zurich , but never got there.
The commissioner now knows with certainty that the dead woman is Carola Poppe. However, he doubts the bourgeois picture that his mother paints of the lives of the murdered. In fact, in Carola's room, the officers find evidence of a certain Peter, with whom the young woman met regularly and whom she knew from working in a Hamburg factory. In the personnel administration there, Strobel and Eismann track down Peter Holzmann, who was born in Pritzin. The married worker initially denies having known Carola Poppe.
In the evening, Holzmann visits the investigators to confess that he lied. He had met Carola Poppe regularly until she was expecting a child from him. The two would then have made the decision in Pritzin suicide to commit. During a crime scene inspection in a similar barn, Holzmann describes how he and Carola wanted to hang themselves. When the young woman was already dead, he got scared and set the barn on fire. Then he fled. When Inspector Strobel confronts the suspect with the fact that Carola Poppe had checked out two books on the day of her death and could therefore not have planned a suicide, he finally confesses to having murdered the young woman.
background
In Burned traces it was already the 11th episode of the crime series steel mesh director Jürgen Roland and the author Wolfgang amount . The outdoor shots took place in Schleswig-Holstein and Hamburg in the first half of 1960 . The interior shots were shot in the Real-Film studios in Hamburg- Wandsbek . Dieter Bartels acted as production designer . As a cameraman was Günter Haase committed. Production manager was Erich Holder .
The main actors Karl Georg Saebisch and Eddi Arent had already been in front of the camera a few months earlier in Jürgen Roland's Edgar Wallace film The Red Circle (according to a statement by Roland, however, the filming of the "Stahlnetz" episode took place BEFORE the Wallace film ). In the Wallace film The Green Archer , also directed by Roland , Eddi Arent alluded to his participation in Burned Traces . When asked if he would like to take a look around the scene, he answered in the role of a reporter that he already knew the work of the police from the steel network .
media
Burnt Traces has now appeared on several DVDs and as an audio book .
Web links
- Steel mesh: Burned traces in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Steel net: burned traces at filmportal.de
- Burned traces on the crime thriller homepage
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