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Derrick - Tod des Trompeters
episode 17
West Germany 1976
produced by Claus Legal, Gustl Gotzler (executive), Helmut Ringelmann (executive) for Telenova/ZDF
directed by Zbynek Brynych
starring Horst Tappert, Fritz Wepper, Sabine von Maydell, Bernd Herberger, Bernd Herzsprung, Alexander Stephan, Wolfgang Büttner, Herbert Tiede, Sky du Mont, Aldo Rendine, Toni Ertl, Willy Schäfer, Gerhard Bormann, Ulf-Jürgen Wagner, Sepp Wäsche, Mircea Crisan, Heinz Eckner, Gisela Hoeter, Alexander Malachowsky, Peter Moland, Horst A. Reichel, James Graser, Zbynek Brynych, Werner Pass, Peter Thomas
written by Herbert Reinecker, music by Peter Thomas
TV-series Derrick, Harry Klein
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Derrick (Horst Tappert) and his assistant Harry (Fritz Wepper) are
called to meet a guy who wants to report a kidnapping in progress, but
when they arrive at the meeting point, the man's shot dead, and while they
are going after the shootist, the dead man's body's removed from the scene
of the crime - for no apparent reason at all as it takes Derrick about an
hour to determine the identity of the deceased, trumpet player Sorek
(Alexander Stephan). Only shortly afterwards, the kidnapping of super
market owner Schrahl (Herbert Tiede) is reported. Derrick is quick to zero
in on Sorek's bandmembers (Sabine von Maydell, Bernd Herberger, Bernd
Herzsprung), who have all come into quite a bit of money of late - but
only a small fraction of what the kidnappers ask for Schrahl. It soon
becomes clear that they have conducted the kidnapping itself, but only as
contractors. Through the band, Derrick finds out about Brinkmann (Sky du
Mont), their contact to the actual hostage keepers, but he's poisoned
before the police can talk to him. And then, two Italians (Aldo Rendine,
Toni Ertl) show up at the club the band's playing at, and they behave so
suspicious that Derrick can't but suspect them - and he's of course smack
on the money and also sees through their plot to throw the police off
their scent ...
The motives of basically innocent young men and women being
hired by professional gangsters to be a cog in their operation appears
time and again in writer Herbert Reinecker's crime shows, often like here
in a very non-sensical way, as why would one leave the most important part
of a kidnapping, as in the actual kidnapping, to bloody amateurs? And how
can these bloody amateurs be quite that naive to think kidnapping is
basically a victimless crime? On a story level, this is never really
explained, and also quickly abandoned, instead the real baddies of the
piece are suddenly pulled out of the hat, and very clumsily so, to bring
the piece to a close. Now pair this with Reinecker's trademark stylized
dialogue and his relative inability to draw realistic characters and
you've got ... well, actually this episode is quite a bit funny for all
the wrong reasons, but good crime televison it's certainly not.
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