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Der Alte - Der Alte schlägt zweimal zu
episode 3
West Germany / Austria / Switzerland 1977
produced by
Helmut Ringelmann, Hans Peter Renfranz for Neue Münchner Fernsehproduktion, ZDF, ORF, SRG
directed by José Giovanni
starring Siegfried Lowitz, Michael Ande, Jan Hendriks, Loumi Iacobesco, Michel Robin, Eleonore Noelle, Brigitte Horney, Uli Steigberg, Harald von Koeppelle, Bert Laurin, Peter Montis, Evelyn Palek, Claudius Seth, Michel Jacot
written by José Giovanni, created by Helmut Ringelmann, music by Peter Thomas
TV-series
Der Alte/The Old Fox, Der Alte (Siegfried Lowitz)
review by
Mike Haberfelner
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Finberg (Michel Robin), owner of a trucking company, has an affair with
Polish immigrant Vanessa (Loumi Iacobesco), who urges him to marry her
otherwise she'll be sent back to her home country - something he'd be very
open to if it wasn't for his wife (Eleonore Noelle), who eventually loses
her shit over his affair and wants to move out to her mother's ... and he
even offers to drive her, something she inexplicably agrees to. Thing is,
she never arrives at her mother's, and Finberg claims they had an argument
on the way there and she just jumped out of the car and took off when they
made a stop. Inspector Köster (Siegfried Lowitz) and his team
(Michael Ande, Jan Hendriks) investigate, and soon find out that Finberg, as he hauled
cargo and has witnesses both when he left his company and arrived at his
destination, simply could not have killed his wife and hidden her body -
it's basically a physical impossibility. So Köster zeroes in on Vanessa,
which even includes her seducing one of Köster's assistants (Ande) with
Köster's team taking pics via hidden camera. And eventually it turns out
that it was actually her who shot Finberg's wife dead while she was still
in his truck, then hid the body to provide Finberg with a water-proof
alibi ... Now Siegfried Lowitz once again does a very good job carrying this
episode as investigating inspector - but otherwise the whole thing's
routine 70s German TV crime drama at best, with the plot really
over-simplifying things and leaving some key questions unanswered, like
how to shoot someone in a truck without leaving any traces - like blood or
a bullet hole. And the scene where it's revealed that Michael Ande was
photographed while being seduced really feels odd at best. Now the whole
thing's totally watchable still if for nostalgia reasons, just nothing
particularly remarkable let alone memorable.
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