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Der Kommissar - Ein Anteil am Leben
episode 69
West Germany 1974
produced by Helmut Ringelmann for Neue Münchner Fernsehproduktion/ZDF
directed by Ullrich Haupt
starring Erik Ode, Reinhard Glemnitz, Günther Schramm, Fritz Wepper, Helma Seitz, Käthe Gold, Kurt Meisel, Dieter Schidor, Heidi Stroh, Katharina De Bruyn, Paul Neuhaus, Wolfgang Schwarz, Otto Bolesch, Sky du Mont, Hans Baur, Maxl Graf, Gustl Weishappel
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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Young waitress Alma (Heidi Stroh) is murdered at her apartment one
night, and her flatmate, elderly cleaning lady at the same bar Alma has
worked Anna (Käthe Gold) has run into the murderer - however she calls
the police only the next day and insists she hasn't been home at the time
of the murder. She also moves into the best hotel in town, and pretty much
throws money around. This of course doesn't go unnoticed by investigating inspector Keller (Erik Ode) and his
team (Reinhard Glemnitz, Günther Schramm, Fritz Wepper). And while
Keller's team questions the regulars of the bar Alma has worked at,
knowing that she has had the habit of letting one or the other of them
take her home and invite them up to her apartment for you-know-what,
Keller zeroes in on Anna, knowing she has received hush money to be able
to afford everything. And while Keller's men don't get past square one
since the killer apparently was very successful covering his tracks, Anna
eventually breaks and tells Keller everything, that the killer was young
Adlinger (Dieter Schidor), apparently a homicidal psychopath, but also son
of a powerful businessman (Wolfgang Schwarz), who has paid her off rather
royally. However, even Anna's confession won't convict Adlinger, so she
has to ask Adlinger senior for more money to be caught by the police
red-handed. Now the idea as such, to pit the investigating
detective against the witness instead of against the killer himself is an
inspired one ... it only falls short in actual writing out, basically
because everything is brought across incredibly bluntly, and - as is often
the case with Herbert Reinecker's scripts - the characters fail to act and
react at all naturally, and all to often fall into stilted monologues and
dialogues. This is especially true with cleaning lady who seems to be all
too intent to draw attention to her despite being paid hush money to avoid
just that. The other problem with this episode is that all the suspects in
the murder mystery are rather pale, up to the point where the actual
culprit had at best two lines of dialogue before he's revealed to the
audience, so one feels pretty much cheated out of a satisfying resolution.
Sure, as with most episodes of Der Kommissar, this is still
an enjoyable piece of nostalgia, but good crime TV it is not.
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