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Young Horst (Oliver Grimm) catches Andrea (Anita Lochner), the girl who he believes to be his girlfriend - she never shared that assumption - in the arms of another man, and not just any other man but his best friend Mario (Renzo Martini). He corners Mario and then, in a fit of jealousy, stabs him with a screwdriver that has just been lying around. Realizing what he has done, he tries to save Mario's life, but it's too late. He confesses everything to his father (Alexander Kerst), and the father makes sure the body is found next to an Italian bar (Mario is Italian) that's known for its nightly brawls and stabbings. Inspector Derrick (Horst Tappert) and his assistant Harry (Fritz Wepper) are called in to investigate, and they're quick to determine Mario's death is not in any way or form linked to the Italian bar. And they are also quick to zero in on Andrea and Horst. Horst's father of course has anticipated as much and somehow drags his ex-wife, Horst's mother (Krista Keller) into the story. But the more he tries to create a perfect alibi for his son, the less Derrick tends to believe him, and it's ultimately the murder weapon that breaks the camel's back ...

Rinaldo Talamonti, then riding high on the wave of German sex comedies, usually playing bumbling but horny Italian foreign workers, has a small role as manager of the Italian bar in this one.

A rather far-fetched murder mystery that suffers from what so many of writer Herbert Reinecker's scripts suffer from: The characters and their actions and reactions just don't feel real, which is only emphasized on by Reinecker's trademark stilted dialogue. So the whole thing indeed feels rather unnatural, and it's not helped by a lack of enthusiasm in direction and series leads Horst Tappert and Fritz Wepper. Still some nostalgic fun, but neither one of the better nor one of the (unintentionally) funnier episodes of the series.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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