Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Rex Resolution 7:Tanz auf dem Vulkan

Dance on the volcano. I'm not sure what it is about this particular episode but it seems I might just have to sit on the volcano, specifically an erupting one, to keep me awake. Works like a dream (no pun intended) every single time, today being no exception.


The beginning is exciting enough. Crim takes desperate measures to escape mandatory treatment at the hands of inexperienced dental student at the University Clinic. Dontophobic as I am, even I feel that's a little excessive.


Turns out crim Borek is a Pole with a charge list as long as your arm and he's on the run to collect a mysterious suitcase. Even with an extremely vague idea of the area he might be in, Moser and Stocki happen to pull up outside a church just as Borek emerges, suitcase in hand. If only life were always so simple.


The chase is on! Exciting? Well, no.

Borek ends up in a ballet school with a handful of tutu-ed hostages. This is where I start losing interest. Apparently the case contains highly radioactive plutonium...somehow I've never stayed awake for the part that reveals why and what Borek is doing with it...or maybe it isn't explained...because I always wake up for the outcome.


Other players Henryk Molewajka as Borek (above top), Grzegorz Emanuel as Kaschinski (above bottom), Susanne Wilhelmina as the ballet teacher (above middle), Julia Lerch as ballet school pupil, Hubert Kramar as Esk and Georges Kern as an emergency doctor.

..And I thought we were going to escape any Recycling this episode, but no. Michael Gampe appears here as a fireman and in Ueber den Daechern von Wien (1996) as a fire expert.

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