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Derrick - Ein unbegreiflicher Typ
episode 24
West Germany 1976
produced by Claus Legal, Helmut Ringelmann (executive) for Telenova/ZDF
directed by Theodor Grädler
starring Horst Tappert, Fritz Wepper, Günther Stoll, Hilde Krahl, Carl-Heinz Schroth, Jürgen Goslar, Walter Gross, Hans-Michael Rehberg, Bruno Hübner, Michaela May, Jan Niklas, Edd Stavjanik, Inge Schwanneke, Hans Elwenspoek
written by Herbert Reinecker, music by Erich Ferstl
TV-series Derrick, Harry Klein
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Homeless and unemployed Pöllmann (Walter Gross) is found shot dead in
one of the rooms of a rather swanky hotel, a room rented by Koller
(Carl-Heinz Schroth), a man who has since gone missing. Inspector Derrick (Horst Tappert) and his assistant Harry Klein
(Fritz Wepper) investigate, but at first they come up with nothing, until
they're conacted by Schündler (Jürgen Goslar), a business partner of
Koller, who tells them about Koller's ex-wife (Hilde Krahl) and daughter
(Michaela May), and who seems to be even more interested to find Koller
than the police - which immediately makes Derrick suspicious. Now the
audience, but not Derrick, at this point already knows that Koller was
blackmailing Schündler, and has received a decent amount of money from
him, and Schündler has trained a hitman on Koller, who in turn was clever
enough to have Pöllmann killed in his stead. But of course, eventually
Derrick is clever enough to track down Koller and then play him against
Schündler to get his culprit. An episode that pretty much
shows screenwriter Herbert Reinecker's shortcomings in full swing: Firstly
it's never explained what Koller is blackmailing Schündler for, which
really is a bit more than one's standard macguffin, secondly Reinecker's
understanding of police work is, frankly, a bit very naive, and thirdly,
the characters all act and react very unnaturally, as if they were
following the demands of the story (which of course they are) instead of
trying for some sort of realism. All that said, of course this all makes
this episode pretty funny, if for all the wrong reasons, and a good watch
from a nostalgic point of view, just anything but good cop drama.
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