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Der Kommissar - Kellner Windeck
episode 41
West Germany 1971
produced by
Helmut Ringelmann for Neue Münchner Fernsehproduktion/ZDF
directed by Erik Ode
starring Erik Ode, Reinhard Glemnitz, Günther Schramm, Fritz Wepper, Helma Seitz, Claus Biederstaedt, Rosemarie Kirstein, Edith Heerdegen, Michael Verhoeven, Hans Korte, Inge Langen, Wolfgang Giese, Angela Salloker, Thomas Frey, Iris Berben, Axel Scholtz
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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A dead man, Windeck (Michael Verhoeven) is found thrown into a fountain
after he's been strangled, and weirdly enough, his shoes are neatly placed
next to the fountain, like in front of a hotel room after they've been
cleaned. Soon enough, inspector Keller (Erik Ode) and
his team (Reinhard Glemnitz, Günther Schramm, Fritz Wepper) investigate,
and find that Windeck was a very good and very popular waiter at
Millinger's (Claus Biederstaedt) pub, so good and popular in fact that
Millinger didn't fire him even though he knew about Windeck's affair with
his wife Franziska (Rosemarie Kirstein). And it seems that Windeck was
popular with a lot of women, including his landlady, Mrs. Lorenz (Angela
Salloker) - in fact so much so that her son Erich (Thomas Frey) felt
jealous. And then there was Maria Gruber (Inge Langen), who frequented
Millinger's pub just for Windeck, and probably had an affair with him, but
of late, her husband (Hans Korte) has found out about this. After much to
and fro, it's found out that Millinger has killed Windeck - even though he
was too good a waiter to fire -, and both Erich and Gruber witnessed the
murder without intervening, quite the opposite, Erich, in a certain state
of inebriation, even took off his shoes and neatly placed them next to the
fountain ... One certainly can't but love Der Kommissar
for its very, let's say, original writing, which in this case goes to
almost Dadaist lengths. And it really goes from the taken off shoes placed
next to the fountain, to the guy not firing his waiter despite the
waiter's affair with his wife but later murdering him, to the general
stilted dialogue, to the characters' unnatural reactions to almmost
everything. There's really very little that feels "real" about
this episode, more so than many other episodes of Der
Kommissar, despite its realistic directorial approach - and that's
what makes it so much fun to watch. Fun for all the wrong reasons maybe,
but great entertainment still.
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