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Der Kommissar - Schwarzes Dreieck
episode 58
West Germany 1973
produced by Helmut Ringelmann for Neue Münchner Fernsehproduktion/ZDF
directed by Theodor Grädler
starring Erik Ode, Reinhard Glemnitz, Günther Schramm, Fritz Wepper, Helma Seitz, Käthe Gold, Karl Walter Diess, Peter Fricke, Tilo von Berlepsch, Angela Salloker, Sigfrit Steiner, Edith Schultze-Westrum, Ethel Reschke, Hans Pössenbacher, Erich David
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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Slightly against normal routine, Helga Alsberg (Käthe Gold) is picked
up by a friend, Mrs. Böhle (Angela Salloker) this Sunday morning, much to
the surprise of her husband (Tilo von Berlepsch). Downstairs she remembers
she has promised her husband to get him the newspaper, so she gives a
neighbour's boy (Erich David) her apartment key and some money to do the
errand for her. After church, she rings at her neighbour's to get the key,
opens the door ... and finds her husband dead in the bath tub. Apparently
he dropped his electric razor when shaving in the tub and electrocuted
himself that way - a silly but not all that uncommon accident ... only,
according to his sons (Karl Walter Diess, Peter Fricke), Mr. Alsberg has
not used an electric razor ever in his life - and a medical report
supports just that. So it's up to inspector Keller (Erik Ode) and his men (Reinhard Glemnitz, Günther Schramm, Fritz Wepper)
to investigate, and Keller soon zeroes in on Mrs. Alsberg and Mrs. Böhle,
as the husband of the latter has died under mysterious circumstances as
well, and soon also meets another friend of them, Mrs. Kanietz (Edith
Schultze-Westrum). It seems though Mrs. Alsberg enjoys her new status as a
widow, and she makes big plans to renovate her apartment - until her sons
pressure her to sign over her 50% share of her husband's business to them.
On the following Saturday evening, Keller sends out one of his men,
Grabert (Günther Schramm), to fetch Mrs. Alsberg for questioning, but
Mrs. Alsberg is nowhere to be found. When Keller receives a report the
next morning that Mrs. Böhle goes to church with Mrs. Kanietz, he quickly
puts two and two together, races to the Kanietz apartment and finds ...
Mr. Kanietz (Sigfrit Steiner) still alive, but in his wife's room Mrs.
Alsberg lies in waiting to see that he has a "little accident"
while Mrs. Kanietz has a perfect alibi, just like Mrs. Alsberg had back
when. Now what's really disappointing about this episode is
that it gives away its solution within the first few minutes, then doesn't
make the first attempt to throw the viewer off-track. There are no red
herrings in this one, and even the solution then comes unnaturally easily
when the women pretty much want to commit a murder following the exact
same modus operandi while the former murder's still under investigation,
and the inspector is apparently onto the ladies - basically it just feels
unreasonable, and of course that's only augmented by the fact that neither
of the characters seem to act very naturally. It sure still is nostalgic
fun, just very little beyond that.
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