This old series is full of surprises. Most of the time the surprise comes in the form of actors, either long forgotten ones or on the brink to fame. In this episode we have Eddi Arent just before his breakthrough as comic relief in the German Edgar Wallace series.
Here at Stahlnetz" he plays a police sergeant, something he would also do in some of his many Edgar Wallace outings. Only that his performance in Verbrannte Spuren" is a straight one, or at least as straight as Eddi could play it. He was definitely best when he could make fun of his character and he is doing a bit of it here already. Not that humor was absent from the series, but this is the first time an actor deliberately brings fun into his role and therefore counteracts the seriousness of the actual crime case attitude the show has. This will happen again in later shows.
On this episode forensic is the big star since we have got a burned barn with a corpse no one misses. While the big bonus of the series has been the realistic settings and actions here we feel as if this episode has been written not by life but by a screenwriter without any help of real events. But still watchable!
Here at Stahlnetz" he plays a police sergeant, something he would also do in some of his many Edgar Wallace outings. Only that his performance in Verbrannte Spuren" is a straight one, or at least as straight as Eddi could play it. He was definitely best when he could make fun of his character and he is doing a bit of it here already. Not that humor was absent from the series, but this is the first time an actor deliberately brings fun into his role and therefore counteracts the seriousness of the actual crime case attitude the show has. This will happen again in later shows.
On this episode forensic is the big star since we have got a burned barn with a corpse no one misses. While the big bonus of the series has been the realistic settings and actions here we feel as if this episode has been written not by life but by a screenwriter without any help of real events. But still watchable!
