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Der Kommissar - Der Geigenspieler
episode 61
West Germany 1973
produced by Helmut Ringelmann for Neue Münchner Fernsehproduktion/ZDF
directed by Theodor Grädler
starring Erik Ode, Reinhard Glemnitz, Günther Schramm, Fritz Wepper, Helma Seitz, Sonja Ziemann, Elisabeth Flickenschildt, Heinz Bennent, Erik Schumann, Günther Stoll, Willy Semmelrogge, Walter Ladengast, Hilde Brand, Fred Albert
written by Herbert Reinecker, series created by Helmut Ringelmann, Herbert Reinecker, title theme by Herbert Jarczyk
TV-series Der Kommissar, Harry Klein
review by Mike Haberfelner
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While violinist Triberg (Günther Stoll) is busy playing a concert,
front desk receives a call for him, warning him to not take the train home
this night. Of course, he takes the train all the same, and is shot dead
during the train ride, from someone who must have shot him from outside. Inspector Keller (Erik Ode) and his men (Reinhard Glemnitz, Günther Schramm, Fritz Wepper)
are quick to launch investigations, and it doesn't take them long to
figure out that the call came from Triberg's wife Irene (Sonja Ziemann).
And from Triberg's mother (Elisabeth Flickenschildt) they learn that Irene
has long had an affair with another man, impoverished painter Kolding
(Heinz Bennent). So it's easy to assume Irene and Kolding have conspired
to kill him. But Irene was at the station to pick up her husband when he
was shot somewhere along the line, and Kolding has an alibi that's
water-proof. But he has taken a lot of money off Irene's back, allegedly
to pay his debts - but then he has "borrowed" a large
chunk of the money to his neighbour Broschek (Erik Schumann), who hasn't
got an alibi for the time of the murder. So he's the logical suspect of
course. That said, Keller assumes the killer somewhere else and works on
Irene some more - until she breaks down and proves to him that she could
have murdered her husband and still be at the train station on time for
the train to arrive, and she shows him the murder weapon in the trunk ... An
at best mildly amusing episode, especially since the story is rather
sloppily constructed and features little in terms of tension and suspense.
And that the characters often act and react all unnaturally doesn't help
much, nor the stilted dialogue one has come to expect though from writer
Herbert Reinecker - and yet these are actually the mildly amusing details
in an overall pretty forgettable murder mystery. That said, as a piece of
nostalgia it is at least somewhat entertaining, just nothing beyond that.
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