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Der Kommissar - Toter gesucht
episode 48
West Germany 1972
produced by Helmut Ringelmann for Neue Münchner Fernsehproduktion/ZDF
directed by Theodor Grädler
starring Erik Ode, Reinhard Glemnitz, Günther Schramm, Fritz Wepper, Helma Seitz, Bernhard Wicki, Christoph Bantzer, Niko Macoulis, Rose Renée Roth, Eleonore Weisgerber, Bruno W. Pantel
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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Berneis (Bernhard Wicki), inspector Keller's (Erik Ode) neighbour and
owner of the corner store, calls on Keller because he suspects his son
Franz (Christoph Bantzer) to have murdered someone because he behaved
oddly and came home with a bloodied shirt. At first, Keller thinks little
of it, until he talks to Franz, a not very likeable guy who shows
over-confidence befitting a murderer. As for the bloodied shirt, it turns
out that Franz has burned it, so no evidence. Also he has just now quit
his job, but carries wads of money on him. All of this is enough to have
Keller curious - thing is, there is no body. In fact there's no unsolved
murder or missing person all over town. So Keller can't investigate
officially, but what he can do is pay frequent visit to Berneis, to Franz,
to Franz's girlfriend Anita (Eleonore Weisgerber), and to Anita's grandma
(Rose Renée Roth) who has brought her up. And eventually, he gets Franz
talking, pretty much justifying his deed without knowing he does so. And
when Keller tells him "gotchya", he does what any amateur
murderer would do and goes to see if the body's still well-hidden - where
one of Keller's men (Fritz Wepper) gets him for real. Turns out it was one
of Anita's bosses at work who wanted to get into her panties by inviting
her to join him on a holiday in Spain - and Franz apparently just figured
the money might just as well be his, which is why he killed the man ...
The idea to tell this film the wrong way round by presenting the
culprit first and the victim last is if not wholly original then at least
inspired. And Erik Ode sure does a good enough job to carry this unusual
episode as the inspector who annoys his circle of suspects (if you include
Anita and also her grandma) just long enough until they break. Where the
episode fails though is in its actual premise where a father is convinced
that his son's a murderer without a shred of evidence - it's just not how
normal people act or react, which is of course the problem with many of
screenwriter Herbert Reinecker's characters, not only in this episode but
throughout his career. And add to that Reinecker's stilted dialogue and
... you actually have one of the more interesting episodes of Der
Kommissar that's as per usual hampered some by not-so-great
writing.
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