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Derrick - Stiftungsfest
episode 3
West Germany 1974
produced by Hans Peter Renfranz, Helmut Ringelmann (executive) for Telenova/ZDF
directed by Helmut Käutner
starring Horst Tappert, Fritz Wepper, Siegfried Lowitz, Bruno Dietrich, Claudia Butenuth, Gusti Kreissl, Herbert Fleischmann, Ullrich Haupt, Andrea Rau, Joachim Wichmann, Panos Papadopulos, Hans Stadtmüller, Marianne Paar, Peter Gebhart
written by Herbert Reinecker, title theme by Les Humphries
TV-series Derrick, Harry Klein
review by Mike Haberfelner
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A choir celebrates its anniversary at an inn, and everybody has a bit
too much to drink, including choir master Bark (Siegfried Lowitz), who has
a wild dance with his son Helmut's (Bruno Dietrich) girlfriend Irene
(Andrea Rau), and later sneaks up to her room when she wants to change,
catches her in a state of undress, tries to get intimate with her, but
when there's a knock on the door he tries to keep her from screaming, and
in an accident he breaks her neck. Later, Helmut is found over her dead
body, so he's of course the prime suspect - but inspector Derrick (Horst
Tappert) and his assistant Harry Klein (Fritz Wepper) aren't quite so sure
and start questioning people - and it turns out, rather by mistake than
design Bark has a watertight alibi, while more and more incidental
evidence turns up implicating Helmut as the culprit - so it's up to him to
protect his son without attracting suspicion himself. Derrick and Klein in
the meantime wait for whoever did it to break down under the guilt - and
ultimately, Bark does just that ... The basic premise of this
episode's a very interesting one for sure, its execution by veteran
director Helmut Käutner is more on the functional side though, but what
really makes this episode is lead Siefgried Lowitz, who really carries the
show with his very engaging performance of a man riddled by guilt riding
an emotional rollercoaster, pretty much relegating the series leads Horst
Tappert and Fritz Wepper to the sidelines. And bearing that in mind it's
little wonder that within three years, Lowitz led his own cop show Der
Alte as lead inspector.
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