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Eva (Susanne Uhlen), a well-liked 16 year old schoolgirl, is found strangled to death somewhere out in the streets, and inspector Keller (Erik Ode) and his team (Reinhard Glemnitz, Günther Schramm, Elmar Wepper) are quick to find out she was last seen by her best friend in school, Anneliese (Simone Rethel), when they did their French homework together - however they stumbled over a certain phrase, a phrase that one of Eva's teachers (Ruth-Maria Kubitschek) recognizes from a conversation she had with Eva's music teacher Voss (Michael Heltau). So Keller and company grill Voss, and soon find out that he and Eva were secretly in love with one another, but Voss has always insisted that they wait for her to finish school before they actually get involved - but he willed into them getting secretly engaged. News Eva just couldn't keep to herself and thus first told of all people Anneliese's father (Wolfgang Weiser), who has long had the hots for her and who now ... erm, for some reason strangled her.

Now Michael Heltau as the teacher with a secret who's caught between passion and forced restraint actually gives a pretty good performance - but he isn't exactly helped by the far fetched script full of stilted dialogues and characters acting against logic or reason, which ultimately culminates with a culprit pulled completely out of a hat with too little character motivation, while quite a few clues just don't make sense or are just conveniently dropped at random points in the story. And at least from today's point of view, the schoolgirl angle comes across as almost dangerously sleazy, but that said, at least seen from a nostalgic perspective, the episode is at least some fun - if for mostly the wrong reasons.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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