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Der Kommissar - Im Jagdhaus
episode 75
West Germany 1974
produced by Helmut Ringelmann for Neue Münchner Fernsehproduktion/ZDF
directed by Gottfried Reinhardt
starring Erik Ode, Reinhard Glemnitz, Günther Schramm, Elmar Wepper, Herbert Fleischmann, Ursula Lingen, Harry Meyen, Eleonore Weisgerber, Sabina Trooger, Klaus Herm, Willy Schultes, Max Grießer
written by Herbert Reinecker, series created by Helmut Ringelmann, Herbert Reinecker, music by Eugen Thomass, title theme by Herbert Jarczyk
TV-series Der Kommissar
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Sabine (Sabina Trooger) arrives at the family hunting lodge, where she
meets her uncle Paul (Harry Meyen), who wants to persuade her mother Eva
(Ursula Lingen) to divorce her husband/his brother Alwin (Herbert
Fleischmann) so she can marry him, as they've recently had a one-night
stand. Paul tries to persuade Sabine to take his side, but she'll have
nothing of it, instead threatens him with one of her father's hunting
rifles. She would have shot him, too, but the rifle wasn't loaded. So she
loads the rifle and leaves. Later at the village pub, she learns that Paul
has actually just been shot at the lodge. Back at the lodge she confesses
what has gone on to her parents and sister Helga (Eleonore Weisgerber),
and the whole family, all of whom have been on their own at the time of
the murder, decide to act as alibi for one another. Investigating inspector Keller
(Erik Ode) and his team (Reinhard Glemnitz, Günther Schramm, Elmar
Wepper) are quick to see through their lies though, and Keller even hints
at this to the family. So Helga has the idea to pinning the blame on Barek
(Klaus Herm), an employee of Paul's whom he has sent to the lodge for a
vacation. So now the family makes the case for Barek as the murderer so
airtight that Keller refuses to believe them - but then Barek hangs
himself and confesses to everything in a suicide note, adding that he has
embezzled money from the company and has been found out (and subsequently
fired) by Paul. What's interesting about this episode is that
for a change the culprit isn't easy to guess early on or just pulled out
of the hat without rhyme or reason at the end, but actually would have
eluded Keller as he was much too fixated on the family because they acted
guilty despite being innocent, so that even their presentation of the
culprit on a silver platter (even if for all the wrong reasons) couldn't
sway him - and this certainly makes this one one of the more interesting
entries into Der Kommissar. Of course, there's once again a
ton of stilted dialogue and characters acting and reacting unnaturally, as
one has come to expect from the series as a whole, so this one's by no
means a masterpiece for that (even if that's part of the weird charm of
the series), but it's a fun watch at least.
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