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Der Kommissar - Die kleine Schubelik
episode 26
West Germany 1970
produced by Helmut Ringelmann for Neue Münchner Fernsehproduktion/ZDF
directed by Georg Tressler
starring Erik Ode, Reinhard Glemnitz, Günther Schramm, Fritz Wepper, Helma Seitz, Emily Reuer, Erni Mangold, Susanne Schaefer, Josef Fröhlich, Thomas Piper, Margarethe von Trotta, Peter Kuiper, Sigfrit Steiner, Josef Vinklár, Günther Heider
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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A man, Schubelik, is found dead in his makeshift apartment, smothered
with his own pillow, and when inspector Keller (Erik Ode) and his team (Reinhard Glemnitz, Günther
Schramm, Fritz Wepper, Emily Reuer) investigate, they're quick to learn
that Schubelik wasn't exactly well-liked in his neighbourhood. Basically
he was a drunkard whose wife (Erni Mangold) has left him years ago, but
his daughter Inge (Susanne Schaefer) still lived with him, at least some
of the time, when things didn't get too much for her and she instead slept
over at her Czech boyfriend Blaha (Josef Vinklár) - as she claimed she
had done at the night of the murder, but evidence proves otherwise - which
makes her a suspect, but Keller doesn't believe either she, or Blaha for
that matter, are the actual culprits. Other suspects are Schubelik's young
neighbour Arnim (Thomas Piper), who's clearly in love with Inge, or
Schubelik's drinking buddies Klenze (Peter Kuiper) and Pölich (Josef
Fröhlich), who insist on not having been at Schubelik's place the night
of the murder, though evidence suggests they were. So Keller and his team
put pressure on Klenze and Pölich individually, and on Klenze's wife
(Margarethe von Trotta), whose broken leg clearly suggests domestic
violence, and eventually they get the big picture, that Klenze and Pölich
have indeed been at Schubelik's place, where Klenze tried to have his way
with Inge, but he was chased away by Arnim, and then ... well, ultimately
Schubelik's estranged wife confesses to having killed him for the sake of
her daughter ... An at best so-so episode of Der
Kommissar, basically because it doesn't feel totally thought
through, and thus characters react to things in unnatural ways, without
proper motivation, make weird choices, and sometimes seem to do things
merely to drive the story forward rather than act logically. Now of
course, Der Kommissar as such was never known for great
character studies, and some of the most fun episodes are that much fun
because of their weird character work, just with this episode things don't
really come together, the characters just defy believability a bit too
much without the story offering that much entertainment in return.
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