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Derrick - Kaffee mit Beate

episode 46

West Germany 1978
produced by
Claus Legal, Helmut Ringelmann (executive), Gustl Gotzler (executive) for Telenova/ZDF
directed by Alfred Vohrer
starring Horst Tappert, Fritz Wepper, Willy Schäfer, Helga Anders, Agnes Fink, Klaus Herm, Peter Pasetti, Tilly Lauenstein, Christian Quadflieg, Johanna Elbauer, Miriam Mahler, Karl-Heinz Thomas, Will Spindler, Birgit Koch, Willi Röbke
written by Herbert Reinecker, music by Frank Duval, title theme by Les Humphries

TV-series
Derrick, Harry Klein

review by
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At an audition, Beate (Helga Anders) gives her friend Helga (Johanna Elbauer) a bonbon filled with liquor to calm her nerves - but instead the bonbon kills her as it turns out it was actually filled with poison - as were the other bonbons in her bag she claims someone left in her room. And as she lives in a shared apartment with no key to her room, it's really at anybody's guess who has left them there. Consequently then, whoever left the poisoned bonbons there must have tried to kill Beate. So Inspector Derrick (Horst Tappert) decides instead of investigating himself, to suppress the news about Helga's death and send his assistant Harry (Fritz Wepper) to take a room in the shared apartment and see what he can find out. Above all, Harry finds out that Beate is a really charming woman, and it's not long before they have alove affair. He also learns that apparently Beate is a very free spirit, and has had love affairs with all men living in the apartment (Klaus Herm, Peter Pasetti, Christian Quadflieg), who are from all walks of life and vary vastly in age. So spurned love might be a motive, but there are also two women in the apartment, landlady Mrs Pacha (Agnes Fink) and Mrs Wollak (Tilly Lauenstein), an older woman who seems to be the only one in the apartment to dislike Beate. So Derrick comes up with a plan, Beate is to invite all her flat-sharers over to her room from coffeeshe claims to have spiked with liquer from the poisoned bonbons (which the killer is to think are still in Beate's possession), and naturally the killer - Mrs Wollak - gives herself away, for Harry for the picking.

 

An episode where screenwriter Herbert Reinecker basically revisits some of his favourite themes: Stories about free-spirited girls whom everybody falls in love with and who gladly goes to bed with everyone pop up quite regularly, most notably maybe in the Der Kommissar-episode Spur von kleinen Füssen, while Harry Klein having a (rather unethical) affair with a key witness also pops up in the Der Kommissar-episode Die Schrecklichen, with the girl in question also played by Helga Anders (though playing another character) in that one. So if you want to be polite, this episode is a bit of a best-of-Reinecker - though less politely said, over the years, Derrick, especially given it has grown out of Der Kommissar, has grown a bit stale, just recycling ideas over and over again (and that said, the series would continue for another 20 years). And frankly, much of the episode seems a bit forced, from the set-up to the stunt to find the murderer, to the diverse set of characters. And the stilted dialogue (one of Reinecker's trademarks) of course doesn't help - but from a nostalgic point of view, all this is nothing if not a loveable mess. Nothing great by any meaning of the word, but fun.

 

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