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Der Kommissar - Lisa Bassenges Mörder
episode 35
West Germany 1971
produced by Helmut Ringelmann for Neue Münchner Fernsehproduktion/ZDF
directed by Wolfgang Staudte
starring Erik Ode, Reinhard Glemnitz, Günther Schramm, Fritz Wepper, Helma Seitz, Klausjürgen Wussow, Boy Gobert, Peter Ehrlich, Diana Körner, Gert Haucke, Addi Adametz, Jan Hendriks, Gustl Weishappel, Michael Habeck
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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Train engineer Leo (Klausjürgen Wussow) has a new girlfriend, Lisa
(Diana Körner), a very popular waitress at a local pub, but one that's
very loyal to him despite being on top of the list of many a local Don
Juan. And every time he passes by her trainside home and honks his horn,
she appears on her balcony naked, showing him that she's ready for him.
But today, when Leo arrives at her place, he finds her dead, strangled.
Now Leo's devastated, but even more so is Alfred (Boy Gobert), his
disaböed brother who has over time developed a strong relationship with
Lisa, and was quite clearly in love with her - and according to all
reports she was very fond of him as well. So when inspector Keller (Erik Ode) and
his team (Günther Schramm, Reinhard Glemnitz, Fritz Wepper) investigate,
it's Leo who takes the bigger interest into their findings than Alfred,
and he time and again pushes suspects into the police's way, especially
Lisa's colleague Wasneck (Jan Hendriks), who at one time tried to get
physical with Lisa and even strangled her for a bit, and freight yard
foreman Hassel (Peter Ehrlich), who has had his designs on Lisa for a
while now and who was actually with her not long before her murder. In the
end though, it turns out in a surprise twist that Alfred himself was the
actual murderer because ... because of reasons, I guess. Now
this is really Der Kommissar at its best - or worst,
depending on your sense of humour, really: The dialogue's so wordy it
stands to wonder whether screenwriter Herbert Reinecker was paid by word
rather than by script, and it comes across as wholly unnatural. The acting
styles of the guest actors clash big time, with especially Klausjürgen
Wussow and Boy Gobert as uneven brothers never really coming together (but
that's also partly due to the script), and storywise, this episode isn't
really anchored in anything resembling reality while as a whodunnit it
really falls short as the killer's motives are weak and murky at best
while its solution seems to be terribly pulled out of a hat rather than
worked upon. So in a way, it's bad - but all the more fun for it!
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