However, as is typical for this series, they’re contrasted with a considerable amount of humor, most of it – in typical Austrian fashion – quite dark. Thus, this, in my book, is the first of the Brenner-movies that apart from being a funny crime story, also had some thriller elements, and offered a couple of truly tense scenes – and also a couple of gruesome moments. Also, Bierbichler aka Löschenkohl is the first antagonist that radiated menace, and who really felt like a genuine threat for Brenner. The two of them get many great scenes that kinda reminded me of the best episodes of “Columbo” (like “Any Old Port In A Storm”), where despite the murderers actions, you could feel a sense of underlying respect and understanding between the two. This time, they not only give him the first love interest that worked for me – played in a very charming, down-to-earth and laid-back way by Birgit Minichmayr – but also his best antagonist (so far, back then) in Josef Bierbichler. Josef Hader still is the only one that I can imagine playing Simon Brenner, perfectly capturing his dry sense of humor, his attitude and his overall worn-outness. Ultimately, though, it proves that his disappearance is not the only – or main – suspicious thing that’s going on there, and before he knows it, he’s thrown into a complex tale of embezzlement, prostitution, and murder.īy now, many of the strengths of “Der Knochenmann” should be well-known from its predecessors.
However, upon arrival, everyone is strangely evasive when he asks for the whereabouts of lessee Alexander Horvath. Initially, he just travels to “Löschenkohl Inn” to collect a car for which the last leasing instalments weren’t paid. Once again, Simon Brenner stumbles into the main crime story pretty much by chance/mistake/bad luck. “Der Knochenmann” ranks somewhere in the middle between “Komm, süßer Tod” and “Silentium” for me. Written by Wolf Haas, Josef Hader & Wolfgang Murnberger
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