Available on DVD! To buy, click on link(s) below and help keep this site afloat (commissions earned)   CLICK HERE to buy from Box-set: Complete season 2 German language only Always make sure of DVD-compatibility!!!

There's a new waiter at the hotel Sacher, Uwe (Klausjürgen Wussow), and concierge Huber (Fritz Eckhardt) takes an immediate dislike into him - and the fact that Uwe drives an expensive car doesn't make things easier. Thing is, when Uwe runs across a new guest, flirty Emme (Ida Krottendorf), he makes a hasty escape, resigns from his job and leaves town. When his wife Gritli (Marianne Chappuis) asks for him at reception a few hours later, he's already long gone.

A few days later, Huber travels to the Semmering to sub for a colleague (Herbert Lenobel) at the local Hotel Südbahn, and to his surprise he finds Uwe's now waiter at that hotel. And when German inspector Keller (Erik Ode) inquires about him, inofficially of course, Huber's interest is peaked - however, he and Uwe soon warm up to one another. Then Emme arrives at the Hotel Südbahn, and she tries everything to seduce Uwe, and when that doesn't work she accuses him of having stolen her bracelet. A search of his room produces nothing though, and it's later revealed that she has placed the bracelet in his room but he has found it and removed it before the search, then returned it to her room with breakfast next morning. He later confesses to Huber he had been happily married to Gritli until Emme had come along and tried to seduce him - which in turn made Gritli so jealous she threw him out, and since he has been on the fun from Emme who seemingly has tracked him down in every hotel he's been working at since. Gritli enters the Südbahnhotel while Uwe's out, and she instead runs into Emme, who tells her she's with him now - which makes Gritli want to give all up on him. But somehow Huber manages to get Uwe and Gritli back together again for a happy ending before Huber himself heads back for Hotel Sacher in Vienna.

The main story of this episode is a rather shallow romance with more clichés that one could point one's stick at, and the actors are all really more going through the motions than acting it out, and likewise the directorial effort is underwhelming. Sure, at least the change of scenery blows a bit of new air into the proceedings, but in all it's really nothing to write home about ... if it wasn't for a guest spot by Erik Ode, playing his inspector Keller from Der Kommissar, and even if he doesn't actually intervene with the on-screen action he does give some backstory. And he has one of the best jokes in the episode when he tells Fritz Eckhardt he's certainly no Inspector Marek - which like this series at hand was a creation of Fritz Eckhardt and a role he played himself. In this respect it's also interesting that the two leads of this episode, Fritz Eckhardt and Klausjürgen Wussow, both had previously been on Der Kommissar, Wussow had been in the episode Lisa Bassenges Mörder from 1971 while Eckhardt in 1970's Drei Tote reisen nach Wien, as above-mentioned Inspector Marek.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

Feeling lucky? Want to search any of my partnershops yourself for more, better results? (commissions earned)

The links below will take you just there!!!

Find Hallo - Hotel Sacher... Portier! - Mein Freund Uwe at the amazons ...   amazon.com   amazon.co.uk   amazon.de Looking for imports? Find Hallo - Hotel Sacher... Portier! - Mein Freund Uwe here ...   eThaiCD.com Your shop for all things Thai Something naughty? (Must be over 18 to go there!)   find Hallo - Hotel Sacher... Portier! - Mein Freund Uwe at adultvideouniverse.com

Thanks for watching !!!