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Der Kommissar - Schrei vor dem Fenster
episode 10
West Germany 1969
produced by Helmut Ringelmann for Neue Münchner Fernsehproduktion/ZDF
directed by Dietrich Haugk
starring Erik Ode, Günther Schramm, Reinhard Glemnitz, Fritz Wepper, Maria Schell, Eva Ingeborg Scholz, Veit Relin, Doris Kiesow, Gunther Beth, Hans Hermann Schaufuss, Stella Mooney, Renate Schmidt, Heinz Meier, Josef Moosholzer
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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While actress Irene Pauli (Maria Schell) was on stage, her husband has
been murdered, and her son (not her husband's son) Berthold (Gunther Beth)
has been seen leaving the apartment, gun in hand and has since gone into
hiding. When Inspector Keller (Erik Ode) and his assistants Grabert
(Günther Schramm), Heines (Reinhard Glemnitz) and Harry (Fritz Wepper)
investigate, they are confronted with constant assurances from the actress
that her son couldn't have been the killer, so much so that they start to
wonder how she doesn't seem affected by the murder of her husband at all -
which they learn from her sister (Eva Ingeborg) and brother-in-law (Veit
Relin), that their marriage was anything but a happy one, and that the
deceased might have had some enemies. Berthold calls at his mother's, and
he tells him to give himself up but also tells him what exactly to say to
the police, which makes Keller and company rather suspicious. Soon, a big
manhunt for Berthold's arrest is organized, but Keller insists on not
using any firepower, even though the boy's armed. And eventually, Keller
gets an idea where the boy's headed and orders his men to leave that route
open, then pays a visit to Irene Pauli's costumer Laura Wedekind (Doris
Kiesow) to see the actress arrive a short time after. Berthold soon
arrives as well but makes a getaway when he notices police is present -
but eventually he's cornered - which is when his mother makes a confession
(which Keller has long suspected), that it was actually her who killed her
husband while her costumer was giving her a water-tight alibi ... One
of the tenser episodes of Der Kommissar that perfectly
counterpoints the rush of a manhunt with Keller's rather sedate style of
investigating, and especially the chase scenes are visually quite
accomplished. The only thing that's a little jarring in this episode is
Maria Schell's mother-character that never feels real - for the most part
for her incredibly stilted dialogue that though seems to endlessly repeat
itself without ever getting anywhere - but at the same time, such
characters are pretty much a trademark of the series. In all, a very
decent piece of suspense TV, really.
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