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Der Kommissar - Der Liebespaarmörder
episode 81
West Germany 1974
produced by Helmut Ringelmann for Neue Münchner Fernsehproduktion/ZDF
directed by Michael Braun
starring Erik Ode, Reinhard Glemnitz, Günther Schramm, Elmar Wepper, Helma Seitz, Claus Biederstaedt, Ruth-Maria Kubitschek, Christiane Krüger, Thomas Piper, Jan Hendriks, Rolf Henniger, Fritz Tillmann, Ruth Hausmeister, Johannes Schauer
written by Herbert Reinecker, series created by Helmut Ringelmann, Herbert Reinecker, title theme by Herbert Jarczyk
TV-series Der Kommissar
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Anita (Christiane Krüger) is the very attractive waitress at
Meringer's (Claus Biederstaedt) café, and thus is hit on by all the
guests and also by Meringer himself. That said, it's public knowledge that
she's picked up by a guy, Karl (Thomas Piper), who doesn't want to be
recognized every night, who then drives her into the woods to make out in
his car. It's no different tonight, but tonight they're followed, and this
follower then shines a flashlight into the car, and when Karl gets out to
chase the other one off, he is shot dead. In shock, Anita runs away, but
gets out of this unharmed and calls the police. Inspector Keller
(Erik Ode) and his team (Reinhard Glemnitz, Günther Schramm, Elmar
Wepper) soon pick up investigations but have only very little material
evidence to go on, so they start collecting suspects. One of them's
Meringer of course, who fails to come up with an alibi, another's Korte
(Jan Hendriks), a regular at the café who's also a jilted admirer, and
even Anita's owh father (Rolf Henninger) acts suspicious. But a lot of
suspects don't make a culprit, so Keller collects them all and also
Meringer's wife Agnes (Ruth-Maria Kubitschek) and takes them to the scene
of the crime, where he tricks Agnes into giving herself away. Thing is,
Agnes suspected Meringer to be Anita's secret lover, so she followed them
to surprise and kill her husband, and when she found out it wasn't him but
Karl, she just fired at him anyhow. Given it's a Herbert
Reinecker script, this is actually rather interestingly built up, with
many suspects and many motives. And even though the characters don't
necessarily act or react all that naturally, as one would by now come to
expect from a Reinecker script, the motives at least come across as sound.
What kind of drives the story into the ground a bit is the ending, where
the culprit's not only pulled out of the hat, also the method of Keller
proving her guilt is overly constructed and thus doesn't ring at all true.
That said, still a fun piece of crime TV nostalgia, if not exactly
objectively good crime TV.
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