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Der Kommissar - Fährt der Zug nach Italien?
episode 92
West Germany 1975
produced by Helmut Ringelmann for Neue Münchner Fernsehproduktion/ZDF
directed by Thomas Grädler
starring Erik Ode, Reinhard Glemnitz, Günther Schramm, Elmar Wepper, Helma Seitz, Karin Baal, Peter Kuiper, Anne Bennent, Klaus Löwitsch, Hans Hermann Schaufuß, David Bennent, Edmund Saussen, Lina Carstens, Günther Haenel, Friedrich Maurer, Karl Obermayr, Heini Göbel, Hilde Brand, Ursula Traun
written by Herbert Reinecker, series created by Helmut Ringelmann, Herbert Reinecker, music by Erich Ferstl, title theme by Herbert Jarczyk
TV-series Der Kommissar
review by Mike Haberfelner
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An 11 year old girl, Ilse (Anne Bennent), is found wandering Munich
central station on her own, wanting to go to Italy) and when a station cop
(Karl Obermayer) takes her home, he finds her father Kempe (Peter Kuiper)
dead, murdered. Inspector Keller (Erik Ode) and his team (Günther
Schramm, Reinhard Glemnitz, Elmar Wepper) take up investigations, and they
soon learn that Ilse's father Kempe (Peter Kuiper), an unemployed
alcoholic, used to beat her up and even tie her up quite regularly, while
her mother Lisbeth (Karin Baal) worked as an amateur prostitute. The man
who usually took care of her was upstairs neighbour Jensen (Friedrich
Maurer), who had a deep but innocent affection towards the girl. But of
course, he's one of the chief suspects, as are Lisbeth of course,
Lisbeth's brother Hans (Klaus Löwitsch), and even her parents (Lina
Carstens, Günther Haenel). After much to and fro, Keller and company come
up with exactly nothing - no witnesses, none of the suspects have an
alibi, and of course no smoking gun or the like, so Keller takes Ines
around to the suspects one by one, as she figures she must have witnessed
the murder, and when she runs away from her grandmother, that's all the
evidence Keller needs. It's astounding that a man who over the
years has specialized on crime TV like Herbert Reinecker knows quite so
little about police work: How Keller comes up with the suspect at the end
is really mind-boggling and furthermore would never hold in court. Also
apart from that this isn't one of the better episodes, the story never
really gets into swing, wasting most of its time throwing in one suspect
after the next, the premise seems pretty exaggerated and doesn't come
across as quite real, with even quite a few inconsequential tangents
thrown in, and the characters by and large lack blood. And to be quite
honest, Friedrich Mauer's exaggerated performance doesn't do the rather
sympathetic character he plays any favours - though he isn't much helped
by Reinecker's trademark stilted lines. In short, not really good, even in
comparison to Der Kommissar's not exactly lofty standards or seen from a
nostalgic perspective.
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