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Der Kommissar - Tod eines Buchhändlers

episode 67

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, Judy Winter, Peter Carsten, Werner Bruhns, Pierre Franckh, Eva Brumby, Renate Grosser, Marilene von Bethmann, Maria Brockerhoff, Willy Schäfer, Marius Reisse
written by Herbert Reinecker, series created by Helmut Ringelmann, Herbert Reinecker, title theme by Herbert Jarczyk

TV-series
Der Kommissar, Harry Klein

review by
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It was pretty much common knowledge that book dealer Kapp (Werner Bruhns) went to Munich each Saturday to get roaringly drunk, then upon arriving home well after midnight he'd beat his wife Herta (Judy Winter) up. Only this Saturday he didn't come home but drowned in the river - which at first looked like an accident until inspector Keller (Erik Ode) and his team (Reinhard Glemnitz, Günther Schramm, Fritz Wepper) start their investigations and in no time at all learn that Kapp's 17 year old apprentice Roland (Pierre Franckh) was madly in love with Herta and actually stood out across the street from her home every Saturday night to ... protect her from afar or something. Both Kapp and his wife were aware of that, too, and Kapp mocked both Roland and his wife for it. So naturally, he's a prime suspect, and, spoiler, ultimately turns out to be the killer, if with the most noble of motives, but to stretch the episode to just under one hour, a subplot is added about Kapp's brother (Peter Carsten), who has had an affair with Herta and who tried to kill his brother by getting him really drunk - on exactly the day he usually got really drunk anyways - and hoping for an accident to happen ...

 

Now screenwriter Herbert Reinecker wasn't too clever a writer on the best of days, but at times his screenplays came across as rather ok murder mysteries at least - but this wasn't one of these days I'm afraid, as this episode really never finds its own voice and just seems to be cobbled together from genre mainstays, with clichées serving as glue. Basically, the writing just seems super-lazy to the point of both un-interested and un-interesting, and unfortunately there's little in terms of direction or action to lift this above below average, a central problem being Pierre Franckh playing yet another teenaged murderer of passion, pretty much a staple of 1970s crime TV. Sure, still at least moderate fun if watched through a nostalgic lense, but good - this is not.

 

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