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A man, Schubelik, is found dead in his makeshift apartment, smothered with his own pillow, and when inspector Keller (Erik Ode) and his team (Reinhard Glemnitz, Günther Schramm, Fritz Wepper, Emily Reuer) investigate, they're quick to learn that Schubelik wasn't exactly well-liked in his neighbourhood. Basically he was a drunkard whose wife (Erni Mangold) has left him years ago, but his daughter Inge (Susanne Schaefer) still lived with him, at least some of the time, when things didn't get too much for her and she instead slept over at her Czech boyfriend Blaha (Josef Vinklár) - as she claimed she had done at the night of the murder, but evidence proves otherwise - which makes her a suspect, but Keller doesn't believe either she, or Blaha for that matter, are the actual culprits. Other suspects are Schubelik's young neighbour Arnim (Thomas Piper), who's clearly in love with Inge, or Schubelik's drinking buddies Klenze (Peter Kuiper) and Pölich (Josef Fröhlich), who insist on not having been at Schubelik's place the night of the murder, though evidence suggests they were. So Keller and his team put pressure on Klenze and Pölich individually, and on Klenze's wife (Margarethe von Trotta), whose broken leg clearly suggests domestic violence, and eventually they get the big picture, that Klenze and Pölich have indeed been at Schubelik's place, where Klenze tried to have his way with Inge, but he was chased away by Arnim, and then ... well, ultimately Schubelik's estranged wife confesses to having killed him for the sake of her daughter ...

An at best so-so episode of Der Kommissar, basically because it doesn't feel totally thought through, and thus characters react to things in unnatural ways, without proper motivation, make weird choices, and sometimes seem to do things merely to drive the story forward rather than act logically. Now of course, Der Kommissar as such was never known for great character studies, and some of the most fun episodes are that much fun because of their weird character work, just with this episode things don't really come together, the characters just defy believability a bit too much without the story offering that much entertainment in return.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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