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Hallo - Hotel Sacher... Portier! - Mein Freund Uwe
episode 2.8
Austria / Germany 1974
produced by Gottfried Schwarz, Hans-Jürgen Bobermin for Schönbrunn-Film/ORF, ZDF
directed by Hermann Kugelstadt
starring Fritz Eckhardt, Elfriede Ott, Reinhold Tischler, Josef Hendrichs, Brigitte Neumeister, Klausjürgen Wussow, Marianne Chappuis, Peter Frick, Ida Krottendorf, Elisabeth Danihelka, Fritz Holzer, Peter Rampfel, Harry Hardt, Herbert Lenobel, Jaroslav Borek, Erik Ode, Hans Niklos, Tom Krinzinger, Manfred Inger, Maxi Böhm, Sascha Helwin, Peter Janisch, Fritz Widhalm-Windegg, Sepp Trummer, Alfred Reiterer
created and written by Fritz Eckhardt, music by Carl Loubé
TV-series Hallo - Hotel Sacher... Portier!, Der Kommissar
review by Mike Haberfelner
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There's a new waiter at the hotel Sacher, Uwe (Klausjürgen Wussow),
and concierge Huber (Fritz Eckhardt) takes an immediate dislike into him -
and the fact that Uwe drives an expensive car doesn't make things easier.
Thing is, when Uwe runs across a new guest, flirty Emme (Ida Krottendorf),
he makes a hasty escape, resigns from his job and leaves town. When his
wife Gritli (Marianne Chappuis) asks for him at reception a few hours
later, he's already long gone. A few days later, Huber travels to the
Semmering to sub for a colleague (Herbert Lenobel) at the local Hotel
Südbahn, and to his surprise he finds Uwe's now waiter at that hotel. And
when German inspector Keller (Erik Ode) inquires about him, inofficially
of course, Huber's interest is peaked - however, he and Uwe soon warm up
to one another. Then Emme arrives at the Hotel Südbahn, and she tries
everything to seduce Uwe, and when that doesn't work she accuses him of
having stolen her bracelet. A search of his room produces nothing though,
and it's later revealed that she has placed the bracelet in his room but
he has found it and removed it before the search, then returned it to her
room with breakfast next morning. He later confesses to Huber he had been
happily married to Gritli until Emme had come along and tried to seduce
him - which in turn made Gritli so jealous she threw him out, and since he
has been on the fun from Emme who seemingly has tracked him down in every
hotel he's been working at since. Gritli enters the Südbahnhotel while
Uwe's out, and she instead runs into Emme, who tells her she's with him
now - which makes Gritli want to give all up on him. But somehow Huber
manages to get Uwe and Gritli back together again for a happy ending
before Huber himself heads back for Hotel Sacher in Vienna. The
main story of this episode is a rather shallow romance with more clichés
that one could point one's stick at, and the actors are all really more
going through the motions than acting it out, and likewise the directorial
effort is underwhelming. Sure, at least the change of scenery blows a bit
of new air into the proceedings, but in all it's really nothing to write
home about ... if it wasn't for a guest spot by Erik Ode, playing his
inspector Keller from Der
Kommissar, and even if he doesn't actually intervene with the
on-screen action he does give some backstory. And he has one of the best
jokes in the episode when he tells Fritz Eckhardt he's certainly no Inspector
Marek - which like this series at hand was a creation of Fritz
Eckhardt and a role he played himself. In this respect it's also
interesting that the two leads of this episode, Fritz Eckhardt and
Klausjürgen Wussow, both had previously been on Der
Kommissar, Wussow had been in the episode Lisa
Bassenges Mörder from 1971 while Eckhardt in 1970's Drei
Tote reisen nach Wien, as above-mentioned Inspector
Marek.
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