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...release relates the tale of an ageing housewife (Brigitte Mira) whose insulated petty-bourgeois world crumbles when her husband suddenly goes on a suicidal-homocidal rampage at his job. Sensing that something must be seriously amiss in an existence that drove her spouse to self-destruction, the elderly frau reaches out to those who people her reality, only to find indifference and a demented flair for exploitation that knows no bounds. Whether it be her egotistical children, glib reporters eager for another story or leftists looking for a living example of the abuses of capitalism, the story remains the same...
After that, it is the Communists' turn. They are represented by a husband-wife team of rich dilettantes, whose aim is to turn the widow into a proletarian heroine. Their sheer companionship is helpful, especially since Frau Kusters' son and his pregnant wife flee to Finland to avoid the scandal, while her daughter uses all the sudden notoriety to try to further her tacky career as a cabaret artiste. But the party is not really interested in clearing the Kusters name, just in exploiting it as propaganda. Finally, Mother Kusters goes off with a building janitor, who offers...
Traube admits having joined the Communist youth movement after the war. Now 49, he made contact with younger radicals through Inge Hornischer, a Frankfurt attorney who handled his divorce in 1975. Verfassungsschutz agents, it seemed, regularly tuned in to the telephone of Frau Hornischer, whose radical clientele included Wilfried Böse, a left-wing terrorist killed in the Israeli raid at Entebbe last July...
After discovering that the "Klaus" who regularly chatted with Frau Hornischer was one of Interatom's leading nuclear experts, Verfassungsschutz agents learned to their alarm that Traube had vacationed for ten days in Yugoslavia in 1975 with Hans-Joachim Klein, another young radical who four months later took part in the kidnaping raid on OPEC ministers in Vienna (TIME, Jan. 5, 1976). Verfassungsschutz advised Interatom of Traube's dubious friendships; they decided against dismissing him immediately on the theory that he might go underground and threaten nuclear revenge. Nine days after the OPEC raid, an agent interrupted Traube...
...this case, Williamson's Holmes is too wired, even for someone giving up coke, and Duvall's Watson resembles a vaudeville Englishman, all jowls and bluster. This excess is echoed in the accents of Arkin, Vanessa Redgrave (who plays the abducted actress) and Georgia Brown (Frau Freud), who sound as if they are revving up to address a bund rally. Joel Grey also appears, but so briefly that he accents nothing. The ace in this poorly shuffled deck is, no surprise, Olivier. He has not often done comedy on screen, but his extravagantly funny Moriarty is a creation...