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Der Kommissar - Schwester Ignatia
episode 45
West Germany 1972
produced by Helmut Ringelmann for Neue Münchner Fernsehproduktion/ZDF
directed by Dietrich Haugk
starring Erik Ode, Reinhard Glemnitz, Günther Schramm, Fritz Wepper, Maria Becker, Romuald Pekny, Ini Assmann, Berta Drews, Volker Eckstein, Otto Bolesch, Jan Hendriks, Elisabeth Osterberger, Eva Maria Bayerwaltes, Carl Baierl, Klaus Gamper, Ulli Kreuzer
written by Herbert Reinecker, series created by Helmut Ringelmann, Herbert Reinecker, title theme by Herbert Jarczyk
TV-series Der Kommissar, Harry Klein
review by Mike Haberfelner
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One night, after doing her rounds in the neighbourhood, basically doing
good to those who need it, nun Sister Ignatia (Maria Becker) witnesses a
bunch of teenaged boys making an escape from local millionair Kroschmann's
mansion, with the groundskeeper Pepper (Romuald Pekny) coming after them
soon enough, screaming about robbery and murder. And it turns out
Kroschmann has been knifed to death during the robbery, which brings inspector Keller (Erik Ode) and
his team (Günther Schramm, Reinhard Glemnitz, Fritz Wepper) onto the
scene. Of course, they question Sister Ignatia about the incident, but she
insists she hasn't gotten a good look on any of the intruders, which isn't
strictly true, as she has actually recognized one of them, Jürgen (Volker
Eckstein), son of terminally ill Mrs Gebrardt (Berta Drews), whom the nun
takes care of as both Jürgen and her drunkard husband (Otto Bolesch)
prove to be incapable. But knowing Jürgen's arrest would only kill the
woman, Sister Ignatia remains mum - something Keller soon grows wise to,
so he remains on the nun's trail. His men in the meanwhile question the
groundskeeper Pepper and find out he has formerly been a manager at one of
Kroschmann's stores, but Kroschmann has "promoted" him to
groundskeeper, basically so Pepper and his beautiful wife Ingrid (Ini
Assmann) could move in - because Kroschmann has long had designs on
Ingrid, and once the Peppers had moved in, he claimed her for himself.
Ultimately it turns out that none of the young men have actually killed
Kroschmann but it was Pepper all along, who just seized the opportunity of
them breaking and entering to let his jealousy play out and kill his
unloved boss. Now this episode of Der Kommissar
isn't half as much marred by stilted dialogue as are some of the others,
even if there's some here too, but it still doesn't feel real, as despite
all attempts at social commentary it never feels quite real, mainly
because the characters rarely ever act or react like real people would,
and all their conflicts seem a bit too far-fetched to be true. And the way
the camera treats the admittedly beautiful Ini Assman, who rarely ever
wears more than a bikini, feels almost obscene. And all of this does of
course not make great crime TV but an interesting, even for the wrong
reasons enjoyable time capsule nevertheless.
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