Leichensache Zernik (1972)
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Cast
Gert Gütschow, Norbert Christian, Kurt Böwe, Hans Hardt-Hardtloff, Alexander Lang
In 1948, investigator Kramm investigates Katharina Zernik’s murder amid postwar political turmoil and rivalry among Berlin’s sector police.
The story
In 1948, the murder of Katharina Zernik in a forest near Berlin brings investigator Kramm into a case shaped by the organizational and political turmoil of the postwar period. Rivalries between police departments in Berlin’s sectors complicate cross-sector criminal investigations, which are divided in connection with the so-called Stumm Police.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
In 1948, Katharina Zernik is strangled in a forest near Berlin and doused with sulfuric acid. During the investigation, Kramm has to contend with the organizational and power-political turmoil of the postwar period, and in the meantime there are further victims. But the murderer leaves clues when he breaks into Zernik’s apartment, and Kramm is ultimately able to corner him in a hotel. The overarching theme is the turf war between police departments in Berlin’s sectors, as well as the division of cross-sector criminal investigations in connection with the so-called Stumm Police.
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