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Der Kommissar - Auf dem Stundenplan: Mord
episode 13
West Germany 1969
produced by Helmut Ringelmann for Neue Münchner Fernsehproduktion/ZDF
directed by Theodor Grädler
starring Erik Ode, Reinhard Glemnitz, Günther Schramm, Fritz Wepper, Helma Seitz, Emily Reuer, Thomas Holtzmann, Renate Grosser, Eva Kinsky, Herwig Walter, Liselotte Quilling, Sigfrit Steiner, Trude Breitschopf, Vadim Glowna, Hans Quest, Hannes Gromball, Hans Fries, Pierre Franckh
written by Herbert Reinecker, series created by Helmut Ringelmann, Herbert Reinecker, music by Peter Thomas, title theme by Herbert Jarczyk
TV-series Der Kommissar, Harry Klein
review by Mike Haberfelner
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One morning, teacher Dommel (Thomas Holtzmann) enters his classroom
some 20 minutes late and seems all distracted. Later, when he enters his
office, he finds one of his female students dead in his chair. Of course,
he's immediately the chief suspect, especially since it seems he had an
extra-curricular relationship with this student. Inspector Keller (Erik
Ode) and his men (Reinhard Glemnitz, Günther Schramm) investigate, and
they soon find out that the girl was not killed at Dommel's office but
rather in the bicycle room, and there's one student especially, Palacha
(Vadim Glowna), who wants to pin the murder on Dommel, especially since he
was the dead girl's ex. But more suspects turn up soon, including Dommel's
own sister (Renate Grosser) who he lives with and who didn't approve of
him having relationships with his female students, or even the school's
caretaker (Herwig Walter) - but then Dommel hangs himself, and that's
pretty much a confession of guilt, and all that's left for Keller to do is
to make Palacha confess that it was him who found the girl's body and
placed it in the teacher's office to make him confess his guilt ... Not
one of the better episodes of the series, as it's way too obvious here
that too many suspects are only thrown into the mix to obscure a rather
simple case, and the actions of some of the characters are just too
far-fetched to ring true. On the plus side of course, there's still plenty
of stilted dialogue here to appease nostalgia fans, and the whole approach
to the subject matter of a teacher having a relationship with one (more?)
of his students is treated in away that seems hilariously out of time from
today's point of view (and rightly so) but is at the same time a nice time
capsule. So not great, but a fun trip to yesteryear.
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