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Derrick - Tote Vögel singen nicht

episode 19

West Germany 1976
produced by
Claus Legal, Helmut Ringelmann (executive) for Telenova/ZDF
directed by Alfred Vohrer
starring Horst Tappert, Fritz Wepper, Doris Kunstmann, Hans Korte, Hans Caninenberg, Lola Müthel, Harald Leipnitz, Tilly Lauenstein, Günther Stoll, Gerhard Bormann, Wolfgang Stumpf, Dieter Eppler, Ulli Kinalzik, Thomas Astan, Michael Hinz, Gernot Möhner, Henner Quest, Gerd Roman Frosch, Hilde Brand, Addi Adametz, Lilian Rack, Eva Bergmanova, Heini Göbel, Fritz Korn, Ernst Kuhr, Felicitas Peters, Petra Drechsler, Biggi Dras
written by Herbert Reinecker, music by Rolf Kühn

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Derrick, Harry Klein

review by
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A girl (Eva Bergmanova) is found dead, her face partially disfigured, and when inspector Derrick (Horst Tappert) and his assistant Harry Klein (Fritz Wepper) start to investigate, they don't have to stir things long to come up with something, as when they come to question the deceased's landlady Mrs Hager (Tilly Lauenstein), they are shot at by her other tenant, Reeke (Michael Hinz), who then makes a getaway - weirdly enough to the the Mona Lisa bar where he's working at and where Derrick and Harry soon catch up with him - but he's already dead, murdered. All Derrick and Harry can find is a witness who must have seen the killer run away, lawyer Schöne (Hans Caninenberg), but he claims to not have seen anything. So our heroes investigate the bar, which is basically a hub for prostitutes with a "photo studio", where paying customers can photograph skimpily dressed girls, in the back. As it turns out the dead girl has worked there as well, and it's one of the clubs owned by sleazy Malenke (Hans Korte), who has long been on the police's radar. And interestingly enough, Schöne turns out to be Malenke's lawyer. For Derrick it's soon clear that Malenke is behind it all, but he fails to find witnesses for his involvement, especially since they all tend to turn up dead - some of them after trying to blackmail Malenke. And then Derrick finds Gerti (Doris Kunstmann), a friend of the dead girl who's fed up with it all and is willing to talk - and Derrick has problems keeping her out of harm's way. In the meantime, Schöne figures he wants out and tries to blackmail Malenke, but Malenke lures him into a death trap, and can kill him just before the police arrives to arrest him ...

 

On the plus side, this episode shows some of director Alfred Vohrer's playfulness that really borders (self-)parody (including a scene where Derrick kisses Harry on the forehead) - but on the not-so-good side, storywise this episode doesn't really fall together, and even if the main villain of the piece is established early on, he's given little in terms of motive, plus all of the characters actually act really stupid, like leaving evidence they could easily have destroyed lying around or hiding where everybody can find them. On top of this the story seems to be pieced together from pieces writer has already used earlier, in episodes of Der Kommissar or even his Edgar Wallace movies, and the whole thing seems to have been put together in a rather slapdash way. Some fun to watch still, especially if seen from a nostalgic point of view, but in no way a good murder mystery.

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