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Derrick - Alarm auf Revier 12
episode 15
West Germany 1975
produced by
Claus Legal, Gustl Gotzler (executive), Helmut Ringelmann (executive) for Telenova/ZDF
directed by Zbynek Brynych
starring Horst Tappert, Fritz Wepper, Gert Haucke, Rosemarie Fendel, Mascha Gonska, Nikolaus Paryla, Günther Stoll, Gerhard Bormann, Carl Möhner, Walter Sedlmayr, Heinz-Werner Kraehkamp, Kurt Zips, Jan Groth, Peter Chatel, Gerhart Lippert, Paula Braend, Heini Göbel, Peter Capell
written by Herbert Reinecker, song performed by Vicky Leandros
TV-series
Derrick, Harry Klein
review by
Mike Haberfelner
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Ross (Gert Haucke) has spent 8 years in prison for breaking and
entering, and when he's out again, he picks right up where he has left off
- and yet nobody links his new raids to him, as while his previous crimes
were of a violent nature, he and his gang now operate in a much more
sophisticated manner, due to insider information Ross has obtained in
jail. But one of the gang wants out, Haller (Nikolaus Paryla), as it
happens the boyfriend of Ross's daughter Lona (Mascha Gonska), and to do
so he tries to tip off the police about their next raid but is shot dead
while on the phone with them, just before he could divulge the location.
Derrick (Horst Tappert) and his assistant Harry (Fritz Wepper) investigate
and are soon enough sure it was Ross who has killed Haller - but of course
they lack any and all evidence. But instead of questioning the suspects
and/or putting them under observation, Derrick collects clues to the time
and location where Ross's gang will strike next, and he finds a good
accomplice in Ross's wife (Rosemarie Fendel). So once he has all that
information, he goes and invites Ross for a drink, and Ross is more than
happy to accepts the invitation, figuring this to be a iron-clad alibi. Of
course, Ross's gang still goes on the raid without him, and they're all
arrested. And having them separated from Ross, Derrick threatens to book
them all for murder, which pretty much forces a confession out of one of
them ...
What's kind of flabberghasting about this episode is writer
Herbert Reinecker's rather warped idea of police work - which of course is
present in many of his scripts, but hardly anywhere as blatant as here
where Derrick builds his case merely on assumption, and that his gamble
works out in the end is only thanks to a script tailormade to his
purposes. Basically there's no logic in his approach, things just happen
because Reinecker writes them this way with no regards as to how
characters would act or react naturally or that they might not have the
same hindsight the writer has. And Horst Tappert isn't the best actor to
bring such a script across with a certain degree of naturalism doesn't
help either. That all said, it's still a fun watch for exactly these
reasons - mixed of course with a healthy dose of nostalgia -, just good
crime TV it's definitely not.
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