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Der Kommissar - Ein Mädchen meldet sich nicht mehr
episode 5
West Germany 1969
produced by Helmut Ringelmann for Neue Münchner Fernsehproduktion/ZDF
directed by Theodor Grädler
starring Erik Ode, Günther Schramm, Reinhard Glemnitz, Fritz Wepper, Emily Reuer, Helma Seitz, Monika Peitsch, Til Erwig, Peter Chatel, Günther Ungeheuer, Josef Fröhlich, Wolfgang Engels, Rudolf Schündler, Eduard Linkers, Ursula Blauth
written by Herbert Reinecker, series created by Helmut Ringelmann, Herbert Reinecker, music by Herbert Jarczyk, title theme by Herbert Jarczyk
TV-series Der Kommissar, Harry Klein
review by Mike Haberfelner
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As Gerda (Ursula Blauth), young student in the big city, hasn't sent
him a card for his birthday, her father (Wolfgang Engels) comes checking
up on her - and finds her dead, strangled. Inspector Keller (Erik Ode) and
his team are quick to pick up investigations, and soon find out that she
wasn't exactly the virtuous girl his father described her to be but
frequented Proschitz' (Günther Ungeheuer) where she pushed weed -
something Proschitz claims of course he was totally unaware of. Keller
receives an anonymous call that he ought to check up on Tanieff (Peter
Chatel), and finds him to be a drug addict who's out of it most of the
time, who has been in a relationship with Gerda, and who would make a
tailor-made suspect - but Keller doesn't believe he's guilty. He soon
tracks the anonymous call back to Wasner (Til Erwig), Gerda's ex, who's
over-eager to put the blame on Tanieff, so Keller has him publicly
arrested - without for a moment believing he's the one either, as it was
only a ruse for Proschitz, head of a drug cartel, to give his game away -
which he does when he desperately tries to leave town ... An
episode that has essentially everything you'd expect from Der
Kommissar and either love or hate about it, a convoluted case with
a bunch of eccentric suspects and a not perfectly logical solution, not
terribly believable characters who often show unnatural reactions to
things and talk in terribly stilted dialogue, and a view into youth
culture that seems a bit under-informed - in this case especially when it
comes to drugs, as it's quite apparent that screenwriter Herbert Reinecker
hasn't really done his research on the effects of marihuana, or quite
simply confused it with heroin - to rather ridiculous effect. And all of
the above makes this one fun to watch, actually - though of course seen
from a standpoint of nostalgia.
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