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Der Kommissar - Der Tod des Apothekers
episode 91
West Germany 1975
produced by Helmut Ringelmann for Neue Münchner Fernsehproduktion/ZDF
directed by Michael Braun
starring Erik Ode, Reinhard Glemnitz, Günther Schramm, Elmar Wepper, Josef Meinrad, Christine Schuberth, Wolf Roth, Gerd Vespermann, Michael Brennicke, Corny Collins, Wolf Richards, Erich Fritze, Günter Clemens, Christian Engelmann, Johannes Buzalski, Bruno W. Pantel
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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Drugist Lahuser (Josef Meinrad) receives a phonecall that his young
wife Lena (Christine Schuberth) has been kidnapped and he's to pay a tidy
sum of money to have her released. Then though, she turns up again when
her husband's already at the handover of the ransom, and while she claims
she's been on a holiday trip with her lover Loska (Wolf Richards), Lahuser
is killed and the ransom is stolen. Inspector Keller (Erik Ode) and his team (Günther
Schramm, Reinhard Glemnitz, Elmar Wepper) soon start to investigate and
come up with a whole slew of suspects, there's of course Lena, Lahuser's
nephew Scholl (Wolf Roth), whom Lahuser brought up like his own son and
who eventually had had an affair with Lena, and also Loska, who's dead
afraid that someone will find out about his affair, least of all his wife
(Corny Collins). Thing is, Loska's wife already knew about the affair, and
she and her fashion designer brother Piel (Gerd Vespermann) soon freely
admit that they "staged" the kidnapping, knowing that Lena and
Loska were out of town, trying to both prank and embarrass Loska that way.
But that was all they did, pranking the man, they claim to have had
nothing to do with the murder or the disappearance of the ransom money. So
Keller has Lahuser's as well as Loska's place and the company Loska and
Piel work for searched, and ultimately the ransom money is found in one of
Piel's mannequins. A rather over-convoluted murder mystery with
a few too many red herrings and an ending that's a bit contrived, even if
it does make narrative sense. Now add to this screenwriter Herbert
Reinecker's trademark stilted dialogue that especially Wolf Roth in a very
central role has to suffer through, and you've got ... a rather amusing
whodunnit, but one that's funny for all the wrong reasons.
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