Novel: Commissario Brunetti‘s 5^th Case

First Broadcast: November 11^th 2004

 

Storyline

Upon Guido Brunetti’s arrival home, he finds his apartment looking like a construction site. Furniture from other rooms had been pushed into the hall and is partly covered with transparent covers. His wife, Paola, informs him about her idea of re-paint the hall, which is why she needed to move some stuff around the house.

 

Brunetti is not particularly keen on the idea, but does not try to stop his wife from her project. Later in the episode, he comes home at noon and finds his wife, who has painted a wall in the hallway pink. She replies that she was told that the hue is called hot raspberry cream.

 

Things do not go any better for Brunetti in the Venice Questura Brunetti. Despite the cold and wet weather, the heater does not work in his office, whereupon Sergente Vianello immediately attempts to repair it. He then receives a visit from opera singer Flavia Petrelli, whose acquaintance he made in the Death at La Fenice episode.

 

She tells him that her friend, archaeologist Brett Lynch, had been brutally beaten the night before. Since she is very worried about her friend, she decided to visit the Commissario. During the beating, Lynch was warned by one of the men from meeting the director of the Venetian museum, Semenzato.

 

Brett had organized a Chinese pottery exhibition at the museum and the exhibits are now being shipped back to Beijing. There it struck her that two of the precious vases had been replaced by fakes and the only way to for this to have happened was in the museum in Venice, which is why she wanted to meet with Semenzato.

 

Shortly thereafter, Semenzato is murdered in his office. Commissario Brunetti, who is in charge of the investigation, learns from his friend, art connoisseur Cassato, that the museum director had a silent partner, namely the antique dealer Franco Murino. An initial interview with Murino only confirms the information obtained from Cassato.

 

It does not come to a second interview because Murino is murdered. As Signorina Elletra watched the records of the video surveillance of the museum, she sees a man entering the museum at the time of the crime, whom she is able to identify as Salvatore La Capra.

 

He is considered to be violent and is the son of Carmello La Capra, a man with a nebulous past, a lot of money and very good contacts. Brunetti finds out from Vice Questore Patta, who knows La Capra from the Lions Club, that La Capra is a passionate art collector who has been living in a luxurious palazzo in Venice for quite some time.

 

The issue escalated when Brett Lynch is suddenly kidnapped.

 

Starring

Joachim Krol as Commissario Guido Brunetti

Barbara Auer as Paola Brunetti

Karl Fischer as Sergente Vianello

Michael Degen as Vice Questore Patta

Annett Renneberg as Elettra Zorzi

Laura Syniawa as Chiara Brunetti

Pattrick Diemling as Raffi Brunetti

 

Other Roles

Gottfried John as Carmello La Carpa

Oliver Brounis as Salvatore La Carpa

Gesine Cukrowski as Brett Lynch

Leslie Malton as Flavia Petrelli

Ueli Jaggi as Dr. Stefano Aurono (Pathologist)

Dietmar Mossmer as Alvise

 

Director: Sigi Rothemund

 

Script: Kathrin Richter

Producers: Katharina Trebitsch

 

Production Manager: Enrico Ballarini

Assistant Director: Ronny Bregulla

 

 

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