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Der Kommissar - Fluchtwege
episode 51
West Germany 1972
produced by Helmut Ringelmann for Neue Münchner Fernsehproduktion/ZDF
directed by Wolfgang Becker
starring Erik Ode, Reinhard Glemnitz, Günther Schramm, Fritz Wepper, Helma Seitz, Monica Bleibtreu, Joachim Ansorge, Carl Lange, Ursula Grabley, Martin Semmelrogge, Michael Toost, Eva Ingeborg Scholz, Dinah Hinz, Robert Naegele, Franziska Liebing
written by Herbert Reinecker, series created by Helmut Ringelmann, Herbert Reinecker, music by Peter Thomas, title theme by Herbert Jarczyk
TV-series Der Kommissar, Harry Klein
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Young Gabriele Bebra (Monica Bleibtreu) escapes from a correctional
facility and hitches a ride with Harald (Joachim Ansorge), who quickly
falls for her because he liked the way how she tossed away her shoes
(really). Ten days later, Gabriele's father (Michael Toost), a known
drunkard with fits of violence, is found knived to death, and of course,
suspicion immediately falls upon Gabriele. Thing is, Gabriele has returned
to the correctional facility that same day, and it's questionable if she
could have made it there that quickly after the time of the murder. Inspector Keller (Erik Ode) and his
team (Reinhard
Glemnitz, Günther Schramm, Fritz Wepper), with Keller's men questioning
Gabriele while he himself gets on Harald's case. And by the by he pieces
things together, like the fact that Harald has lived with Gabriele in his
father's (Carl Lange) garden house, but the old man wasn't happy at all
about - so unhappy in fact that he paid a visit to Gabriele's dad and paid
him money to lure her into a trap and have her recaptured. With that
information, Keller confronts Gabriele, and ultimately she breaks
confessing she was at the scene of the murder at the time of same, but it
wasn't her but her younger brother (Martin Semmelrogge), who was panicking
that youth welfare might take him away because the old man refused to make
up with their stepmother (Ursula Grabley) ... Stilted dialogue,
including many endless repetitions of things just said, characters acting
and reacting weirdly and unnaturally, some overacting by some of the guest
stars and ultimately a less than perfect resolution to things - so it's
basically your typical Der Kommissar-episode. But that one's
actually not too bad, the sequence where Gabriele escapes from the
correctional facility is well put together and the jail's a properly drab
place, so some of the urgency of the situation is really palpable for the
audience - but as often with this series, this episode could have done
with (much) better writing.
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