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Der Kommissar - Ein Funken in der Kälte
episode 62
West Germany 1973
produced by Helmut Ringelmann for Neue Münchner Fernsehproduktion/ZDF
directed by Wolfgang Staudte
starring Erik Ode, Reinhard Glemnitz, Günther Schramm, Fritz Wepper, Helma Seitz, Klaus Behrendt, Mady Rahl, Hans Brenner, Gretl Schörg, Horst Sachtleben, Carlamaria Heim, Cordula Wiedemann, Lilith Ungerer, Walter Sedlmayr, Günther Heinlein, Horst Heinlein, Ursula Fröhlich, Jochen Mann, Christine von Stratowa
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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Aging prostitute Heide Hansen' (Mady Rahl) dead body is pushed out of a
car in the very street she worked. Inspector Keller (Erik Ode) and his men
(Reinhard Glemnitz, Günther Schramm, Fritz Wepper) investigate, but at
first come up with nothing but another dead body. But they soon zero in on
Schneider's (Horst Sachtleben) pub, pretty much a place where prostitutes
go to warm up and pimps play cards. There they also meet Schichta (Klaus
Behrendt), an old drunk who was also perhaps the only friend Heide has
had. Schichta in turn leads them in a roundabout way to Heide's pimp
Schönau (Hans Brenner), someone whom Schichta makes more nervous than he
ought to, so much so that Schönau has his men beat him up one time.
Keller has both Schichta and Schönau shadowed, and their ways eventually
convene in, of al places, a ballet school - only it's not a ballet school
but a brothel for underaged prostitutes. Apparently, Heide has found out
about this and tried to blackmail Schönau, which cost her her life, and
now Schichta tried the same, having learned nothing from Heide's death,
and it's only thanks to the timely intervention of Keller and company that
he's not killed as well. Like so many episodes of Der
Kommissar, this one's marred by a sensationalistic premise,
characters that act and react all unnaturally, a not totally thought
through plot and rather stilted dialogue - all things that by this time
writer Herbert Reinecker has already elevated to an artform, often to
unintentionally funny results. So yeah, this is of course campy nostalgia
- good crime TV though it's not.
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