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Der Kommissar - Noch zehn Minuten zu leben

episode 90

West Germany 1975
produced by
Helmut Ringelmann for Neue Münchner Fernsehproduktion/ZDF
directed by Theodor Grädler
starring Erik Ode, Reinhard Glemnitz, Günther Schramm, Elmar Wepper, Helma Seitz, Christine Wodetzky, Wolfgang Stumpf, Gerlinde Locker, Ute Willing, Luitgard Im, Eric Pohlmann, Jürgen Goslar, Tilo von Berlepsch, Margit Symo, Rolf Wanka, Ingrid Capelle, Hanns Stein
written by Herbert Reinecker, series created by Helmut Ringelmann, Herbert Reinecker, music by Hans-Martin Majewski, title theme by Herbert Jarczyk

TV-series
Der Kommissar

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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Industrialist Lenhard (Wolfgang Stumpf) arrives late to a party at his own house, goes upstairs to change, and a few minutes later, the guests downstairs hear a shot and then a man's death scream. Bottner (Jürgen Goslar), the proxy of Lenhard's company, is the first up the stairs, but he only finds Lenhard's dead body. He also finds his room's window opened and is quick to suggest a burglar. He suggests for all the guests to go outside to try and capture the burglar, but not a trace of him (or her) is found. Inspector Keller (Erik Ode) and his team (Günther Schramm, Reinhard Glemnitz, Elmar Wepper) investigate, and it doesn't take them long to find out that Bottner is having an affair with Lenhard's wife Charlotte (Christine Wodetzky), and now that Lenhard's dead, the two don't even try to hide it, to the point where Bottner moves in with her only days after the murder. So quite obviously, there's a motive for the murder, but both have airtight alibis, as they were downstairs with all the other guests. Still, since there's nobody else around who has a motive, so it must have been them, so Keller asks question after question, until he learns about a fishing cabin Bottner, not a fishing man by character, has rented of late, and that's when things start to fall together ...

In the finale, Keller invites all the party guests back to Lenhard's house, and to everybody's surprise they once again hear a shot and a man's death scream, just like at that last party, and now Keller reveals this all came from a tape Bottner recorded at the fishing cabin, and that he actually shot Lenhard earlier using a silencer to have the perfect alibi when the recording kicked in.

 

To be perfectly honest, this episode gives its whole game away in the first five minutes, so much so that one has to ask why our TV detectives couldn't come to the same conclusions much sooner. That said, in terms of logic many questions are left unanswered, like where did Bottner hide the murder weapon or why didn't anybody spot the quite massive tape player in Lenhard's room? But that said, Der Kommissar was never big on narrative logic, and nostalgia glosses over at least some of the series' shortcomings, maybe even endears us to it for them - and in all, this one's actually a pretty entertaining episode, even if nothing to write home about.

 

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