Hunkeler und die Augen des Ödipus
Directed by Christian von Castelberg2012 1h 40m[Crime](/on-demand/category/crime), [Drama](/on-demand/category/drama)
7.06.5
Retired police commissioner Peter Hunkeler rekindles an old passion and goes to the theater with Hedwig. In his youth, he himself had considered becoming an actor, but ultimately opted for the supposedly safer career in the police force. The premiere of Sophocles' "Oedipus Rex," which Hunkeler and Hedwig attend-he fascinated, she asleep-goes awry. A scandal is brewing. One of the actors, Walter Rutziska, sabotages the production by suddenly appearing in the auditorium, completely drunk, and hurling insults at the audience. Hunkeler considers this outburst a stroke of genius by the director. At the premiere party, he wants to congratulate the director and lead actor of the production, Bernhard Vetter, and is met with a stunned slap. When Rutziska then staggers onto the jetty of the motor yacht where the party is being held, Vetter, in a fit of rage, throws the entire party off the ship and tells them to get lost. Accompanied only by the young actress Beate Keller, whom he had previously praised highly, Vetter sets sail. The Provence, as the yacht is called, disappears on the Rhine at night and reappears the next morning, derelict and wrecked at a weir. Bernhard Vetter is reported missing and shortly afterward is found dead in the Rhine, his eye sockets empty.
