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Der Kommissar - Der Tod des Herrn Kurusch
episode 40
West Germany 1971
produced by Helmut Ringelmann for Neue Münchner Fernsehproduktion/ZDF
directed by Theodor Grädler
starring Erik Ode, Reinhard Glemnitz, Günther Schramm, Fritz Wepper, Helma Seitz, Volkert Kraeft, Cornelia Froboess, Wolfgang Büttner, Christiane Krüger, Martha Wallner, Heinz Baumann, Wolfgang Engels, Otto Bolesch, Hannes Kaetner, Margit Weinert
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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Everything should have been so easy: After Kurusch (Wolfgang Büttner)
has collected the rent money from all the tenants, Ewald (Volkert Kraeft),
one of the tenants, would break into Kurusch's apartment, sneak up on him,
kill him by hitting him over the head with a hammer, and make off with the
money - only when he's about to kill him, Ewald notices he's already dead,
killed in just the way he intended to. Ewald drops the hammer and makes an
escape to call the police - but is seen by Kurusch's niece Annemarie
(Cornelia Froboess). It's not long before inspector Keller (Erik Ode) and
his team (Reinhard Glemnitz, Günther Schramm, Fritz Wepper) start
investigating, and of course they zero in on Ewald, not only because of
Annemarie's testimony but also because he's quick to lose himself in
contradictory statements - and then it's found out that the hammer found
at the scene of the crime is his (even though there's no indication that
this exact hammer is the murder weapon, but that's not even hinted at in
this episode). So basically he's the logical culprit, but he asks Keller
to give him three days to find the real killer (why three is never
explained, and the whole episode seems to take place in half a day). So
accompanied by Keller, Ewald starts to question people, and before you
know it, they stumble upon Kurusch's estranged wife Hilda (Martha
Wallner), a hopeless alcoholic who with her husband gone goes on a big
spending spree with the money she has inherited. Eventually it's found out
that she has grown friendly with Kurusch's neighbour Bross (Heinz
Baumann), and has somehow persuaded him to kill her ex for her ... A
rather run-of-the-mill episode of Der Kommissar that has
pretty much all the series' trademarks - including characters acting
unnaturally, stilted dialogue, and a culprit pulled out of the hat based
on at best questionable evidence -, but somehow, despite the
"innocent killer" twist, the story's just not interesting enough
to really take off. It's still fun mind you, just not as much fun as some
of the best or worst episodes of the series.
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