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Der Kommissar - Warum es ein Fehler war, Beckmann zu erschießen

episode 85

West Germany 1975
produced by
Helmut Ringelmann for Neue Münchner Fernsehproduktion/ZDF
directed by Michael Braun
starring Erik Ode, Reinhard Glemnitz, Elmar Wepper, Helma Seitz, Will Quadflieg, Alwy Becker, Gerd Böckmann, Hans Brenner, Friedrich Karl Grund, Jörg Pleva, Dirk Dautzenberg, Reinhard Kolldehoff, Rosemarie Kirstein, Barbara Gallauner, Ulli Kinalzik, Gernot Möhner, Veronika Faber, Dieter Barell
written by Herbert Reinecker, series created by Helmut Ringelmann, Herbert Reinecker, title theme by Herbert Jarczyk

TV-series
Der Kommissar

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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A money transport is robbed and the driver's (Dirk Dautzenbeck) shot dead. When inspector Keller (Erik Ode) and his team (Reinhard Glemnitz, Elmar Wepper) start to investigate they soon learn from the deceased's son (Jörg Pleva) that the man was well aware of the robbery beforehands, was actually to play a role in it. Only the son has quite obviously no idea who else might be involved. Thing is, the owner of the bank that has been robbed, Höringer (Will Quadflieg), behaves mighty suspicious, so much so that he refuses to help with investigations. Keller turns on Höringer's son Erhard (Gerd Böckmann), who eventually admits to having been in league with the robbery's mastermind Koch (Hans Brenner), with whom he has been cellmate in prison for a while, when the two of them cooked up the plan for the robbery, too. Thing is, the whole thing went haywire when the driver got shot, and while Erhard wanted to immediately give himself up to the police, Höringer tried to butter things over with Koch - and ultimately our inspector catches Höringer with Koch, and Koch confesses to the robbery, not to the murder though, as it was committed by one of his men without his consent.

 

Frankly, one of these episodes one can either love or hate Der Kommissar for: Its story is far-fetched and feels completely unreal every step along the way, the characters for the most part act unnaturally, only augmented by Herbert Reinecker's trademark stilted dialogues, and the resolution of the case seems just random and not really worked towards - so in a word, definitely not good crime TV ... but a nostalgic laugh all the same.

 

On a side note, this episode makes repeated use of the Carl Douglas song Kung Fu Fighting, a rather weird choice given the song's martial arts topic that has absolutely nothing to do with the story at hand.

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