Spur in die Nacht
- Ulrich Thein: Ulli Sperber
- Raimund Schelcher: Man with leather jacket
- Eva -Maria Hagen: Sabine
- Anne Kathrin citizens: Traudel
- Uwe -Jens Pape: Hanno
- Friedrich Gnass: Old grave Bert
- Hermann Kießner: Mr. Eschka
- Kurt Dunkelmann: Herr Lehmann
- Hans -Peter Minetti: Dr. Meisel
- Horst Kube: The Younger
- Herbert Körbs: The Elderly
- Kurt Rackelmann: Bethmann
- Hela Gruel: Woman Lehman
- Charlott Steinegg: Rita
- Dieter Perlwitz: border policeman
- Aribert Grimmer: grave Bert
- Lisa Wehn: Old woman
- Gustav Heverle: Command Head
- Albert Hetterle: Officer
- Heinrich Schmidt: sergeant
- Günter Wolf: sergeant
- Ursula White: HO- seller
- Margot Naumann: singer
- Dieter Kaufmann: CSR Sergeant
Track in the night is a German crime film DEFA by Günter Reisch from the year 1957.
Action
The mason Ulli has received from his girlfriend Sabine a letter in which she asks him to come as quickly as possible from Berlin to her. Sabine works as HO- assistant in a small village in the Zittau Mountains near the border with Czechoslovakia. However, when Ulli arrives at the station, Sabine is not waiting for him. He goes alone to the inn Burrow. However, Sabine's girlfriend Traudel just know that Jane has made their way to the station. When she noticed that Sabine's room is dispelled, they called the police. The police found in Jane's room only a plan that is a trip to Hamburg. For them, Sabine is now considered a fugitive Republic.
Traudel and Ulli can not believe that, even if Trudi knows that Sabine an illegitimate child had to leave behind in Hamburg. Ulli sets out on his own in search of Sabine, especially since he takes part in the ashes of the inn, which is part of Sabine's case. Each guest at " the Burrow " Ulli seems suspicious to have something to do with the disappearance of Sabine. Above all, a man in a leather jacket sweaters excited suspicion, but he has asked the HO to Sabine. In the ashes of the " Burrow " Ulli has a shoeprint found, which he follows up to a cabin in the woods. Unwittingly, he triggers a mechanism which opens the actually locked door of the hut. Drin already waiting on the seedy Eschka Ulli, who threatened him with a gun. A short time later Sabine arrives at the cottage, which acts as an intermediary between Eschka, the head of a troop agents from the West, and the Mitspionen and sliders. Eschka opened Ulli that Sabine had an illegitimate child in Hamburg - Sabine in turn is forced to cooperate with Eschka, because otherwise the child does not release. Indeed, Sabine is because of their hopeless situation just before the suicide. When approaching the border police hut, Ulli, Sabine and Eschka keep quiet. Ulli does not want to jeopardize Sabine, thus making himself guilty, however.
The agents gang wants to set off across the border. Ulli is released and wants to leave disappointed by Sabine. As she calls him in " The Burrow ", since you have left her alone in a school to expect the man with the leather jacket that has the group now worried fake passports. Ulli wants to go to her, but is overwhelmed by the agent group and returned to the forest hut. There turns out that the man in the leather jacket is actually a mole from the State Security Service and the group to spy. Long the border guards are alerted on both sides of the border. When the agents want to flee across the border, they are arrested. Sabine, who is looking for Ulli, an accident in the snow, but only one leg has been broken. At the end go Ulli and the man with the leather jacket together towards the Berlin. Ulli notes that he soon must return to a limit - he wants to go to Hamburg. Before the SD man can turn away from him, Ulli is clear that he is only there to get Jane's child.
Production
Track in the night was the first detective film, the Günter Reisch turned for DEFA. In addition, it was his second feature-length directorial effort by Young vegetables. Filmed under the working title smuggler king movie experienced on 25 October 1957 at Berlin's Babylon cinema its premiere. On 14 February 1958, he ran for the first time on DFF one on TV.
Protagonist Ulrich Thein sings and plays in the movie the song composed by him Burrow Boogie, which is also accompanied by the Quartet Ernst Kunert.
Criticism
The contemporary critics called the film surface, but rated him positively. " Great ambitions has not this film, the thing does not go very deep, but what is shown is real and true " The cinema audience " need such films undemanding the need satisfy the voltage and real sensation, "said Karl- Eduard von Schnitzler fixed, while other critics criticized the acting tiresome uniformity of the scene representation.
For the filmdienst track was in the night a " illogical constructed and tensionless thriller that warns viewers against unauthorized actions and to cooperate with state authorities, asking '. "