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Der Kommissar - Messer im Rücken
episode 20
West Germany 1970
produced by Helmut Ringelmann for Neue Münchner Fernsehproduktion/ZDF
directed by Wolfgang Staudte
starring Erik Ode, Reinhard Glemnitz, Günther Schramm, Fritz Wepper, Helma Seitz, Emily Reuer, Helmut Käutner, Ursula Lingen, Herbert Bötticher, Christiane Krüger, Jörg Pleva, Werner Kreindl, Franz Brandl, Erich Baier, Martin Lechner, Robert Naegele, Albert Hehn, Otto Friebel, Lisa Helwig, Katharina De Bruyn, Michael Grimm, Günther Heider, Michael Martin
written by Herbert Reinecker, series created by Helmut Ringelmann, Herbert Reinecker, music by Peter Thomas, song performed by Lester Wilson, title theme by Herbert Jarczyk
TV-series Der Kommissar, Harry Klein
review by Mike Haberfelner
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A man (Robert Naegele) is found dead while trying to enter a taxi cab,
and once inspector Keller (Erik Ode) and his team (Richard Glemnitz,
Günther Schramm, Fritz Wepper) start to investigate, they find that not
all the facts compute perfectly, starting with the fact that the upper
class deceased seems to be an unlikely customer for the pub outside of
which he has been killed. On top of that, the victim's sister (Ursula
Lingen) and brother-in-law (Herbert Bötticher) act a little too rejective
once it comes to the police's questions - and ultimately to little
surprise once Keller finds out that the dead man's wife (Christiane
Krüger) had an affair with Ingo (Jörg Pleva), son of the pub's resident
drunk (Helmut Käutner). Now Ingo seems like the tailor-made culprit, but
Keller takes a closer look at the mechanics of it all and finds things are
murkier than they first seemed ... ... or are they really, as
this is one episode where the culprit is given away very early, and the
rest of the story seems to be just an attempt to complicate a simple
story. On top of that, most plot devices seem to be a little too
far-fetched to come across as believable, with the series' trademark
stilted dialogue not helping one bit either - which might not make this
good genre entertainment, but a fun time capsule at least.
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