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Der Kommissar - Ein Playboy segnet das Zeitliche
episode 93
West Germany 1975
produced by Helmut Ringelmann for Neue Münchner Fernsehproduktion/ZDF
directed by Wolfgang Becker
starring Erik Ode, Reinhard Glemnitz, Günther Schramm, Elmar Wepper, Helma Seitz, Helmuth Lohner, Peter Fricke, Dieter Prochnow, Donata Höffer, Andreas Seyferth, Evelyne Kraft, Barbara Rütting, Carl Lange, Kai Fischer, Michael Graeter, Hans-Jürgen Leuthen, Veronika Fitz, Paul Sahner
written by Herbert Reinecker, series created by Helmut Ringelmann, Herbert Reinecker, title theme by Herbert Jarczyk
TV-series Der Kommissar
review by Mike Haberfelner
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For a week now, Mandy Schulz (Helmuth Lohner), a playboy and local
celebrity, has been receiving threatening phonecalls, and tonight, the
caller actually threatens to shoot him dead later tonight. So he, with a
blonde (Evelyne Kraft) on his arm, his bodyguard Erich (Dieter Prochnow)
and his wingman Willy (Peter Fricke) by his side for security, dashes
home, but before long he's shot dead from outside through his bedroom
window. Inspector Keller (Erik Ode) and his team (Günther
Schramm, Reinhard Glemnitz, Elmar Wepper) soon start to investigate and by
the by pick up traces, the most promising of which leads to a former
girlfriend, Elisabeth (Donata Höffer), who committed suicide in his
garage after Mandy ditched her, and it turns out her brother Albert
(Andreas Seyferth) is still living in her apartment in Munich despite
running a shop in the countryside. After a bit of questioning, he admits
he has followed Mandy around after his sister's death - which was easy to
do because Mandy had never met him and thus didn't know what he looked
like. He was also behind all the threatening phonecalls to Mandy including
the one announcing his imminent death. Albert even owns a handgun and
hands it over to Keller and company, for them to determine it hasn't been
fired in years thus can't be the murder weapon. Of course, it could be
that Albert has a second weapon ... but then it turns out that DM 50,000
have gone missing from Mandy's apartment, and suddenly Willy, who left
shortly before Mandy was shot, becomes the chief suspect, with Erich his
possible accomplice, and even though there's not a shred of evidence
against them, Willy gives everything away by trying to bolt and drawing a
gun on a police officer in the process. A rather lively episode
with many nightclub scenes and thus also then-popular music, and even some
sexy bits and (not entirely successful) attempts at satire. That said,
there are also writer Herbert Reinecker's trademark stilted dialogue and
poor understanding of both psychology and police work, but really with Der
Kommissar that's almost part of the game, and if the episode flows
alright actually adds to its charm, to make it not exactly good crime TV
but an amusing piece of nostalgia.
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