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Derrick - Solo für Margarete

episode 47

West Germany 1978
produced by
Claus Legal, Helmut Ringelmann, Gustl Gotzler (executive) for Telenova/ZDF
directed by Michael Braun
starring Horst Tappert, Fritz Wepper, Willy Schäfer, Horst Buchholz, Susanne Beck, Lisa Kreuzer, Jacques Breuer, Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel, Siegurd Fitzek, Karl-Heinz Peters, Wulf Kessler, Andreas Seyferth, Michael Brennicke, Bemey Oberrett, Tony Schwarz
written by Herbert Reinecker, music by Klaus Doldinger/Passport, title theme by Les Humphries

TV-series
Derrick, Harry Klein

review by
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The body of a girl, Margarete (Lisa Kreuzer), is found by the side of the road, later a bunch of unidentified men lock her landlady (Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel) in a wardrobe and search her apartment. When inspector Derrick (Horst Tappert) and his assistant Harry (Fritz Wepper) investigate they learn that nothing from the apartment is missing but a poster of musician Alexis (Horst Buchholz), who just happens to play at a local club pretty much every day. Derrick and Harry want to question Alexis, but first his brother Ruff (Jacques Breuer), who's also his manager, tries to block them, and when they finally get through to Alexis, it turns out that he's a heroin addict. However, he insists on never having seen Margarete. Then, lo and behold, Margarete's sister Ursula turns up, who just happens to be the splitting image of Margarete (and is thus also played by Lisa Kreuzer), and with the blessing of Derrick, she starts visiting Alexis's shows - and soon enough develops a soft spot for him. Alexis though soon breaks down and confesses to Derrick that he has killed Margarete because she forcefully tried to prevent him from shooting up, having long tried to cure his addiction. Case closed? Well no, because despite Alexis's confession he doesn't know where he got the knife Margarete was killed with from. So Derrick does a bit of deducing, figures Alexis's musicians (Andreas Seyferth, Michael Brennicke, Bemey Oberrett, Tony Schwarz) are all heroin addicts, and it was actually them who killed Margarete because she wanted to get him to kick the habit, and ... well, reasons I guess.

 

The views this episode propagates on drug addiction are pretty ridiculous, but apparently ripped from the headlines - from decidedly drug-phobic tabloids. As a result, everything that's told here about heroin addiction feels somehow off and feeding into sensationalism rather than anything else, all the way up to the motive of the killers. Which makes this a rather poor murder mystery, not at all helped by other plotpoints that seem to pop up in screenwriter Herbert Reinecker's work every now and again, including the twin motif. And of course, Reinecker's trademark stilted dialogue and inability of his characters to show proper reactions to whatever it is don't help here either.

Of interest here might be that the music Alexis is playing on stage are variations of tunes from the then current album Ataraxia by score composer Klaus Doldinger's fusion jazz band Passport. Alexis himself is played by Horst Buchholz, who rose to fame as angry young man in the 1956 movie Die Halbstarken/Teenage Wolfpack, and has had a pretty successful career since, peaking quite probably in 1960's The Magnificent Seven. By 1978 however he was 45 years old, and doesn't look and feel the angry young man any more he's supposed to play, not at all helped by directorial choices.

So in all, not great crime cinema, but nostalgic fun nevertheless.

 

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