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Banker Kerner (Hellmut Lange) has made a name of himself supporting the arts, so he holds music evenings every week. Thing is, Kerner's son Arno (Andreas Seyferth) takes this occasions to fish house keys out of his dad's guests' coats, enter their homes and go on a robbing spree - his trick though is to only steal trifle so his victims, all righ guests of his dad, aren't even likely to notice, and he does it all mostly to finance his girlfriend Bea's (Katerina Jacob) heroin habit. Thing is, on his latest tour, he runs into another thief and hits him over the head with a pepper mill, probably killing him. He gets away mind you, it's just that the other robber had friends who are after him now.

Inspector Köster (Siegfried Lowitz) investigates the case, and soon hits a wall - if it wasn't for Arno making another raid, on Kerner's business partner Huckner (Alexander Kerst), and Huckner spots Arno stealing his keys, and since he's a bit of a financial pickle, he blackmails Kerner - but not well enough for Köster not to find out how it's all tied together anyhow. So for Kerner's next music evening Köster has all of Arno's victims' houses under surveillance. It's just that by now Arno has been taken captive by the other group of thieves who force him to give them the addresses of likely victims to be - and really, they're all arrested at one of the addresses, and ultimately the murder charges are dropped against Arno as it turns out one of the group of robbers (Hanno Pöschl) has gone in after Arno to finally finish their colleague off.

A very convoluted premise that could have resulted in an interesting crime drama - could have, as the script's very run-of-the-mill and basically feels convoluted to the point of ridiculousness, with most plot elements ultimately coming out as underdeveloped. At least Siegfried Lowitz's performance once again is rock solid, but that's as good as it gets. And of course, this does get nostalgia points for being typical for its era and area, but nothing near good crime cinema.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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