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Der Kommissar - Am Rande der Ereignisse
episode 84
West Germany 1975
produced by Helmut Ringelmann for Neue Münchner Fernsehproduktion/ZDF
directed by Theodor Grädler
starring Erik Ode, Reinhard Glemnitz, Günther Schramm, Elmar Wepper, Helma Seitz, Maria Schell, Gabi Fischer, Eva Ingeborg Scholz, Paul Edwin Roth, Werner Pochath, Romuald Pekny, Erik Schumann, Eva Meier, Heini Göbel, Tobias Ringelmann
written by Herbert Reinecker, series created by Helmut Ringelmann, Herbert Reinecker, music by Hans-Martin Majewski, title theme by Herbert Jarczyk
TV-series Der Kommissar
review by Mike Haberfelner
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At a hotel, arts expert Dr. Zorn (Paul Edwin Roth) is shot dead, and
the last person alive was Mrs. Gutmann (Maria Schell), the hotel's
secretary for hire who was in the middle of taking his dictation when he
received a threatening phonecall and sent her away. A short time later,
Mrs. Gutmann receives a phonecall threatening her not to tell anything
about the dictation to the police and is promised a good sum of hush
money. When inspector Keller
(Erik Ode) and his team (Reinhard Glemnitz, Günther Schramm, Elmar
Wepper) question her, she keeps indeed mum, but they soon find out what
the dictation was about, but not whom the letter was for. But they know
that the lives of Mrs. Gutmann and her daughter (Gabi Fischer), who's
suffering from multiple sklerosis, are in danger, since the killer might
as well just kill them as paying up. Still, Mrs. Gutman pays a visit to
the gallery of Mr. Kampmann (Romuald Pekny) and son (Werner Pochath) to
ask for more money. She gets it even, but by now Keller and company zero
in on her and soon get her to confess. They also get a clue leading to a
small guesthouse where Keller's assistant Robert (Reinhard Glemnitz) takes
a room and soon finds out that the guest house's owner (Eva Ingeborg
Scholz) and one of the guests (Erik Schumann), the Kampmanns and Zorn were
part of an art forgery ring, and ultimately Zorn had to be killed because
he wanted too much money ... One of the episodes of Der
Kommissar where writer Herbert Reinecker tried to weave some
social relevancy into his story with the multiple sklerosis subplot, but
it's really not done very elegantly, and so the result is a rather
over-convoluted whodunnit that's not at all plothole-free - starting with
the mere fact that the victim dictates an incriminating letter to a
secretary-for-hire, that the killer trusts his instincts so much that he
shoots a man dead through a closed door, and Mrs. Gutmann for some reason
trusts she'll be able to blackmail somebody who has just shot dead a man.
In other words, everything is incredibly far-fetched - and that really is
part of the nostalgic charm of Der Kommissar, which might not be good
crime TV but a fun watch for all the wrong reasons all the same.
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