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Der Kommissar - Keiner hörte den Schuss
episode 7
West Germany 1969
produced by Helmut Ringelmann for Neue Münchner Fernsehproduktion/ZDF
directed by Wolfgang Becker
starring Erik Ode, Reinhard Glemnitz, Günther Schramm, Fritz Wepper, Helma Seitz, Marianne Hoppe, Michael Hinz, Erika Pluhar, Ernst Fritz Fürbringer, Walter Rilla, Peter Fricke, Horst Sachtleben, Pattie Boyd, Amanda Lear, Gil Gerroway, Kari Ann, Walter Kraus, Peter Böhlke
written by Herbert Reinecker, series created by Helmut Ringelmann, Herbert Reinecker, title theme by Herbert Jarczyk
TV-series Der Kommissar, Harry Klein
review by Mike Haberfelner
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A man is shot dead in broad daylight on a busy parking lot, but due to
a noisy construction site nearby, nobody heard the shot, and thus the
crime wasn't detected until later. Inspector Keller (Erik Ode) and his
assistant Heines (Reinhard Glemnitz) soon find out the deceased was a
courier for jeweller de Croy (Walter Rilla), and this day carried a
fortune in raw diamonds that got stolen. Keller's first way is to the
deceased's wife Eva (Erika Pluhar), who's remarkably unfazed by her
husband's death but atmits she wanted to divorce him. But she denies
having known he was carrying a fortune in raw diamonds that day. Keller
soon finds out about Eva's lover Blago (Michael Hinz), and finds out that
Blago's over-protective mother (Marianne Hoppe) has a lodger, Rühle
(Horst Sachtleben), who's an ex-con, and with his things there's a map
marked at a certain spot that suggests he wanted to rob the deceased.
Thing is, that "certain spot" is not the parking lot the man was
shot. After much to and fro it becomes evident that the deceased himself
wanted to stage being robbed to end up with plenty of money to
"buy" his wife back, and thus hired Rühle. Knowing that
Rühle's a friend of his wife's lover Blago though, he took some extra
precautions hiding the loot in his car. However, Rühle never got a chance
to stage the robbery, because the deceased was killed first. Keller though
figures the loot must still be in the car, so he parks it in front of the
police station as bait, then invites everyone involved in the case over,
knowing the killer will search the car when stumbling upon it - which he
does, and turns out to be the jewellers own son Paul (Peter Fricke), whom
Eva also had an affair with ... An unnecessarily convoluted and
actually quite contrived Police procedural/murder mystery where the killer
can be guessed way too early in the proceedings - and seen through the
filter of nostalgia, it's also great, a fun time capsule where the charm
isn't really in the main plotbut in the (often stilted) dialogue, the
eccentricities of the characters, even the old-fashioned acting styles of
several of the actors, while Erik Ode and Reinhard Glemnitz make a fun duo
in this one while really carrying the episode well.
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