Der Fall Dr. Wagner
- Harald Mannl: Dr. Kurt Wagner
- Johanna end of man: Rita Wagner
- Brigitte Pike: Inge Wagner
- Dieter Heusinger: Hans Henning
- Hans Wehrl: Gerhard Scholz
- Hans -Peter Thielen: Rudolf Neumann
- Raimund Schelcher: Erich Rückert
- Theo Shall: Rolling
- Wolf Kaiser: spring
- Peter Paul Goes: Member of the security organs
- Horst Preusker: VP- commander
- Werner Berndt: Carlie Schneider
- Fredy Barten: Meyer
- Peter A. stairs: Burner
- Aribert Grimmer: Lehman
- Erich Mirek: in the Ministry
- Georg Niemann: Friesian
- Corinna Breucker: secretary in Wagner's office
- Lilli Füchsel: Miss Simsch
- Else sands: Mrs. Siebert
- Helga Jordan: Secretary at Scholz
- Kurt Lange: Master Berger
- Ulrich Thein Student
The case of Dr. Wagner is a German crime film DEFA by Harald Mannl from the year 1954.
Action
Dr. Kurt Wagner is a scientist in the VEB Astra. He has worked a long time on an invention that replace the always imported from the West copper wire and so the economy is to make the east independent from the West. It is a paint, the Wagner Isolon want to call. Initial tests show that Isolon is not usable because it already does not withstand low bending operations. Wagner is a loss. He does not know that his closest collaborator Rudolf Neumann his experiments secretly manipulated and the composition of the Isolon does not conform to Wagner. Neumann works for clients in West Berlin, organized by the dodgy spring. Neumann's assistant at Astra 's driver Erich Rückert, who was active as a Sergeant in World War II before. He hopes that the west money and reputation, Neumann, however, a position as chief chemist in Ludwigshafen. Both can be held up by their clients, however. First, you want to see results in the West.
Neumann is to prevent Isolon is actually developed. As he feared, Wagner will send the sample paints for control analysis in Electrochemical Institute and learn so that the composition has been tampered with, he shall bring Wagner on instruction Feder way to escape to the West. Together with Rückert he begins Wagner anonymous call and convince him that you can not trust him in the factory. Apparently you believe that Wagner intentionally manipulating the samples. Wagner takes the calls initially not serious.
His daughter Inge has fallen to the University in their former fellow student Hans Henning. He's just finished studying and applying successfully as an assistant at Wagner Astra. Inge is thrilled, but Wagner is communicated with an anonymous phone call that Henning was only hired to spy on him. He met the young man now with suspicion and talks Inge one that his love is just a lie to her. Inge turns away from Henning. More anonymous calls claiming to be a colleague had been arrested - in fact he is on a continuing, but Wagner learns to demand only that he is no longer there. He, too, was on the verge of arrest, warn other calls. Neumann manages to secretly make imprints of Wagner's apartment keys. It can Rückert break into Wagner's apartment where they ensure chaos. Phone Wagner hear much later, that he should not go home because a search takes place. In a panic, Inge Wagner picks up from college and ordered his wife Rita to the station. Without luggage, the family fled to West Berlin. There spring and his men are not pleased. They had assumed that Wagner would go with the documentation on Isolon in the West. They have no interest in the invention, but just do not want that it is brought in the east to production. Wagner is worthless for them without these papers. They organize it a property, but leave him about his future career to unaware.
In East Berlin, the leaders in the Astra plant initially think Wagner himself had operated sabotage, because he had been for a long time been recruited by the West. Henning, however, embarks on a quest to Inge, who he loves her. He meets her after some time and learns from her about the threatening phone calls. Together they go to the police and launched an investigation of the case of Wagner. Meanwhile, Neumann commissioned by spring, to grab a copy of the papers to Isolon. When hiding the papers in a "debris mailbox" Neumann is arrested. Also, the agent of the other party can be arrested a short time later. However, there is still no Neumann's helper at the factory. The young worker Carlie can help. He is in search of his missing father for some time. Neumann advised him to abandon a search for RIAS. So Carlie was regularly the RIAS, the main office of spring and its people. One day he is asked to bring a cardboard factory, on his return, which contains a bomb. It is designed to the time fuse, if he makes Feierabend. Initially, Carlie refuses, however, sees in the next room Rückert sit with a same packet. He immediately agrees to perform the task and deliver the bomb off on his return to the police that is currently in the works. It can also report so that Rückert is the required complicity Neumann. Rückert are after long -examine his deeds, Neumann has already confessed. Dr. Wagner is rehabilitated and will return to the factory, where the colleagues are already waiting for him. Wagner realizes that he has done wrong and Henning now has no objection more against a relationship of young man with rings.
Production
The case of Dr. Wagner in 1954 turned. Director was the Munich Harald Mannl that his first created here of two films for DEFA. He was also the only guest - director of the DEFA, who turned a decidedly political film. Mannl took over in the film the lead role of Dr. Wagner. The costumes created Rosemarie Converts, the production design was by Alfred Tolle.
The case of Dr. Wagner experienced on October 8, 1954 at the Berlin cinema Babylon and the DEFA film theater chestnut avenue its premiere. On 5 November 1954, he ran on DFF 1 for the first time on television in the GDR. An alternate title of the film was conspiracy.
Criticism
The contemporary critics called the script "is not awkward [ ... ] created ". Nevertheless, the film was average, because the actors did not use the qualities of the script.
The filmdienst praised the fact that the case of Dr Wagner " partially breaks the rigid black-and- white pattern and theme -existent fears such as the fear of unjust prosecution in the East. "