Traum eines Wahnsinnigen
- Episode aired Jan 28, 1972
- 1h
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DER KOMMISSAR Episode with Curd JÜRGENS, Christine KAUFMANN and Horst FRANK
On January 28, 1972, a remarkable episode of the crime series THE KOMMISSAR was shown on the West German television station ZDF, which also had a top-class cast.
In DREAM OF A MAD, an inmate (Horst FRANK) of a mental institution manages to murder two people and then escape. His treating doctor (Curd JÜRGENS) offers the inspector (Erik ODE) his support. It quickly becomes clear that the escapee wants to try to murder his adopted daughter (Christine KAUFMANN) again. She works with her husband (Günther STOLL) as an artist in the Munich Circus Krone. What complicates the investigation: The escapee is a master of 1000 masks. Nobody can know what mask the escaped murderer is hiding behind...
What a successful episode! The ZDF series follows in the footsteps of Doctor Mabuse and the Witcher by Edgar WALLACE. Pure excitement in an eerie atmosphere!
And then the cast! BAFTA AWARD nominee Curd JÜRGENS (in 1959 he was nominated for THE ENEMY BELOW) as a strange neurologist, GOLDEN GLOBE winner Christine KAUFMANN (in 1962 for TOWN WITHOUT PITY) and then CINECITTA Divo Horst FRANK in what feels like 1000 masks!
The director Wolfgang BECKER has created a real television gem here that can definitely compete with the horror thrillers from the cinema. Wera FRYDTBERG, who is known from I OFTEN THINK OF PIROSCHKA and WE WUNDERKINDER, can be seen in the role of a nurse. Günther STOLL is known from the very first episodes of the crime series DERRICK, and - like Horst FRANK - he also appeared in numerous films from the Roman CINECITTA.
Highly recommended!
In DREAM OF A MAD, an inmate (Horst FRANK) of a mental institution manages to murder two people and then escape. His treating doctor (Curd JÜRGENS) offers the inspector (Erik ODE) his support. It quickly becomes clear that the escapee wants to try to murder his adopted daughter (Christine KAUFMANN) again. She works with her husband (Günther STOLL) as an artist in the Munich Circus Krone. What complicates the investigation: The escapee is a master of 1000 masks. Nobody can know what mask the escaped murderer is hiding behind...
What a successful episode! The ZDF series follows in the footsteps of Doctor Mabuse and the Witcher by Edgar WALLACE. Pure excitement in an eerie atmosphere!
And then the cast! BAFTA AWARD nominee Curd JÜRGENS (in 1959 he was nominated for THE ENEMY BELOW) as a strange neurologist, GOLDEN GLOBE winner Christine KAUFMANN (in 1962 for TOWN WITHOUT PITY) and then CINECITTA Divo Horst FRANK in what feels like 1000 masks!
The director Wolfgang BECKER has created a real television gem here that can definitely compete with the horror thrillers from the cinema. Wera FRYDTBERG, who is known from I OFTEN THINK OF PIROSCHKA and WE WUNDERKINDER, can be seen in the role of a nurse. Günther STOLL is known from the very first episodes of the crime series DERRICK, and - like Horst FRANK - he also appeared in numerous films from the Roman CINECITTA.
Highly recommended!
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