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Monaco Franze - Der ewige Stenz: Mehr seelisch, verstehen's
episode 6
West Germany 1983
produced by Peter Frötschl, Elisabeth Laussen for Balance Film/BR
directed by Franz Geiger
starring Helmut Fischer, Ruth-Maria Kubitschek, Christine Kaufmann, Erni Singerl, Karl Obermayr, Wolfgang Fierek, Hans-Reinhard Müller, Alfred Urankar, Ruth Drexel, Sigfrit Steiner, Joachim Hackethal, Gerhard Zemann, Gaby Herbst, Sylvia Ulrich, Erich Kleiber, Franz Geiger, Peter Kuhnert, Sepp Schauer
written by Franz Geiger, created by Helmut Dietl, music by Dario Farina, Gian Piero Reverberi
TV-series Monaco Franze
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Franz (Helmut Fischer) has been kicked out of the house by his wife
Annette (Ruth-Maria Kubitschek), and without a place to go, he finds
himself forced to sleep at his office. And while Annette seems to enjoy
her new-found freedom, the same doesn't go for Franz who's struck with an
existential crisis - so much so that he decides to spend his summer
vacation at a monastery, along with his best friend and constant sidekick
Manni (Karl Obermayr), who's rather shocked by Franz's choice of
destination. Meanwhile, Annette falls for a scheme of petty criminal and
Franz's minor nemesis Tierpark Toni (Wolfgang Fierek), who sells her
wooden statures of saints he claims are from the estate of a priest who
collected them. They're supposed to be hundreds of years old, but are
actually fakes, pieced together from genuine elements of old statues with
quite some newly carved pieces added, and they look so convincing that
even two experts (Hans-Reinhard Müller, Alfed Urankar) fall for them, and
their expertise actually drives the prices. All's good and well until
Tierpark Toni is found out, and Annette is taken in as accessory to the
crime. When Franz learns about this, he, a former police inspector, rushes
to her side. Ultimately the whole story is hushed up and Annette let go as
one of the statues has been sold to a high ranking politician, and if it
was found out it was a fake this would create a scandal - but for his
actions, Annette decides to give Franz another chance ... Now
this is not a bad episode per se, and it's still plenty funny even, but
one can't help but feel half of the story is missing: It's never revealed
why exactly Franz has been kicked out, how this affects him is mostly
hinted at, his stay at the monastery and how it affects him (and Manni) is
never really depicted, and his story and that of Annette and the statues
of saints don't really gel together (until the very end that is). Again,
none of this makes the episode bad as such, it just seems like a bit of
wasted potential.
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