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Der Kommissar - Besuch bei Alberti
episode 30
West Germany 1971
produced by Helmut Ringelmann for Neue Münchner Fernsehproduktion/ZDF
directed by Wolfgang Staudte
starring Erik Ode, Reinhard Glemnitz, Günther Schramm, Carl Lange, Christine Wodetzky, Herbert Mensching, Stephan Stroux, Klaus Schwarzkopf, Angela Hillebrecht, Signe Seidel, Peter Dornseif, Trude Heess, Gusti Kreissl, Willy Harlander
written by Herbert Reinecker, series created by Helmut Ringelmann, Herbert Reinecker, music by Peter Thomas, title theme by Herbert Jarczyk
TV-series Der Kommissar
review by Mike Haberfelner
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When Sidessen (Klaus Schwarzkopf) returns to his office after hours to
fetch something, he finds his boss Alberti (Carl Lange), freshly murdered.
He's quick to pick up the scent of the killer and follows him through
pretty much half the building before losing him but bumping into Brink
(Herbert Mensching), Alberti's brother-in-law and also employee of his
company, but the two men weren't on good terms. Now Sidessen is sure it
was Brink whom he has followed, and when inspector Keller (Erik Ode) and
his team (Günther Schramm, Reinhard Glemnitz) come in to investigate,
Keller soon zeroes in on Brink. Thing is, after having talked to Alberti's
wife (Christine Wodetzky), Sidessen insists it hasn't been Brink after all
- and he has also been appointed Alberti's successor in the company. To
dig deeper into this change of heart, Keller's men dig into Brink's story
and soon find he has been bullied by Alberti, so much so that his office
had been moved into the company's windowless archives. But apparently in
the archives he had found something to blackmail Alberti with. Keller puts
more pressure on Brink, and also brings Brink's adult son Erwin (Stephan
Stroux) into the story, until Brink confesses ... only Keller doesn't
believe him. The attention is shifted to Brink's son, who was actually in
Alberti's office at the time of the murder - but ultimately it was
Alberti's own wife who Erwin had an affair with, and when Alberti
confronted the two, things got out of hand ... Basically an
episode that has everything you've come to expect from Der Kommissar,
a pretty convoluted case with the killer pulled out of the hat at the end,
a not very believable premise, characters acting and reacting very
unnaturally to whatever thrown at them, and of course writer Herbert
Reinecker's trademark stilted dialogue. However, it's not one of the
better or funnier episodes, things seem to be a little too stale and too
far-fetched at the same time. Nostalgic fun still, just not very
memorable.
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