During construction work in a small town in Thuringia, the burial of an unidentified man in an SS uniform with gunshot wounds is discovered. Taking into account that there were no military operations in this place and an ancient gold coin was found near the body, two police inspectors, Captain Stetter and Lieutenant Hoffmann, arrive to investigate the unusual incident. Soon they manage to get on the trail of a mysterious crime that took place twenty years ago, but it is cut short with the murder of the owner of the plot of land where the corpse was found. Realizing that the new crime is closely connected to the death of an unknown SS man, the police search for clues in the memories of old residents and archival documents.
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Fritz Diez
Known for
Seventeen Moments of Spring
Dieter Wien
Also in
Ghosts from Outside
Fritze Bollmann will nicht angeln
Helga Emmrich
Siegfried Hartmann
Marita Böhme
Also in
Carbide and Sorrel
Der Mann, der nach der Oma kam
Wolfgang Held
Rolf Sohre
Emil Fuhrmann
Kurt Wendland
Regine Albrecht
Also in
Heißer Sommer
Cascade Backwards
Edmund Kiehl
Karl Schinsky
Jiří Vršťala
Known for
Ikarie XB 1
Siegfried Hartmann Director · Edmund Kiehl Writer Wolfgang Held Author
First release May 27, 1966 · Produced in XG, Germany · Production DEFA
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DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme
Production
DEFA
Production
XG · Germany
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Original language
German
Spoken on screen
German
Release dates
XG · May 27, 1966
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No release date listed for United States.
Germany
April 7, 1967 · TV · (West Germany)
Hungary
September 28, 1967
Russia
October 23, 1967 · Theatrical
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