Abschiedsvorstellung

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1986 · 108 min

Overview

A classical who-dunnit-detective-story in an unusual setting: In the retirement-home for aging stage-artists "Ewige Rampe", an overly engaged doctor discovers what seems to be a murder by poison. The victim is the only inhabitant of the home who was not on stage, but a reporter of a gossip magazine. The two investigating police inspectors soon find out that the deceased lady blackmailed most of the inhabitants with little secrets she found out in her time as a reporter - nasty, but harmless things like a little shoplifting, alcoholism, a corrected date of birth, a success one never had... but are these little old secrets reason enough to kill someone? Or is there someone with a more important dark spot in the past? And

Directed by Peter Weck

Cast

• Eberhard Fechner — Oberkommissar Richter
• Lola Müthel — Beatrice Roemer
• Anne-Marie Blanc — Elisabeth Wisotzki
• Peter Pasetti — Peter Paulsen
• Klaus Schwarzkopf — Benno Behrmann