Commissioner LaBréa
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Commissioner LaBréa |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Year (s) | 2009-2010 |
| Production company |
teamWorx Television & Film GmbH UFA Fiction |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Episodes | 3 ( list ) |
| genre | Thriller |
| First broadcast | March 5th, 2009 on Das Erste |
| occupation | |
Commissioner LaBréa is a crime series that was produced from 2008 by Universum Film AG (Ufa) with the subsidiary teamWorx in Berlin and Paris . Francis Fulton-Smith is cast in the title role . The series is based on the crime novels by the author Alexandra von Grote . From March 2009 to April 2010, three prime- time episodes were broadcast on the First . In August 2011, the discontinuation of the crime series was announced.
content
After the murder of his wife, Maurice LaBréa moves with his twelve-year-old daughter Jennifer, called Jenny, from Marseille to Paris . There he works as a commissioner for the Criminelle Brigade on the Quai des Orfèvres in Paris .
occupation
| actor | Role name | position | Episodes | Period |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Francis Fulton-Smith | Maurice LaBréa | Commissioner | 1-3 | 2009-2010 |
| Leonie Brill | Jenny LaBréa | Daughter of Maurice LaBréa | 1-3 | 2009-2010 |
| Valerie Niehaus | Celine Charpentier | Painter, LaBréa's neighbor | 1-3 | 2009-2010 |
| Chiara Schoras | Claudine Millot | Lieutenant on LaBréa's team | 1 | 2009 |
| Bruno Bruni Jr. | Jean-Marc Lagarde | Lieutenant on LaBréa's team | 1-3 | 2009-2010 |
| Anja Knauer | Corinne Dupont | Lieutenant on LaBréa's team | 2-3 | 2010 |
| Daniel Friedrich | Roland Thibon | Manager of LaBréa | 1-3 | 2009-2010 |
| Michael King | Joseph Couperin | Investigating judge | 1-3 | 2009-2010 |
| Gudrun Landgrebe | Dr. Brigitte Foucart | Coroner | 1-3 | 2009-2010 |
Episode list
| No. | Original title | First broadcast | Director | script |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Death at the Bastille | 5th Mar 2009 | Sigi Rothemund | Alexandra von Grote |
| 2 | Murder on Rue St. Lazare | Apr 22, 2010 | Dennis Satin | Jürgen Büscher |
| 3 | Dreams of death at Montparnasse | Apr 29, 2010 | Dennis Satin | Thomas Stiller |
Reviews
Like most of the critics, Tilmann P. Gangloff on the tittelbach.tv site also came up against the fact that the ARD subsidiary Degeto Film repeatedly sends "German actors" "abroad" so that they can "play local inspectors", which in the case of Francis Fulton-Smith "seems particularly out of place in view of his British roots". “The brutal and abundantly bloody murders” were “in stark contrast to the constantly leisurely narrative”. Gangloff was bothered by scenes that would correspond to the “typical Degeto style”, but praised the “optically quite elaborate image design” and the “gripping finale” in the first case. In addition, Fulton-Smith had "occasionally the opportunity to suggest that he can do more" than the good family man.
“Germans who play French - that can't go well. The authenticity of 'Commissioner LaBréa' is roughly on the same level as that of 'Commissioner Laurenti'. Here and there, brave actors (such as the hopelessly under-challenged Chiara Schoras) allude to a clichéd script in which almost every scene looks like a mixture of a family series and a 'dream ship'. Commissioners like LaBréa, Laurenti and Brunetti are not far from the latter. The genre brazenly combines two of the most popular hobbies of Germans: watching crime fiction and traveling. "
“German actors can be incredibly flexible. If there is currently no vacancy in a regional crime thriller, they investigate abroad. In Venice or in Trieste. It is not the worst actors who help to abuse cities of culture as pure backdrops for half-silk crime films ... "
"Excitement, detailed descriptions of the environment and harmonious figures ensure good entertainment."
“… Francis Fulton-Smith is the masculine prototype: leather jacket attitude, 36-hour beard - a man from the Silver Forest. Francis Fulton-Smith is as yesterday as Master Proper and yet very good at the business ... dramatically outrageous and above all conventional. But the viewer should be lulled with the set pieces of local crime entertainment: a single widower in the title role, a tender romance, a colorful team of investigators (boss with intuition, freak with heart, woman with brain), a cute dog, a cheeky daughter and all the clichés from the touristic usable location - this time: Paris. The mixture of holiday destination and crime scene works perfectly ... "
Web links
- Kommissar LaBréa in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Commissioner LaBréa at Fernsehserien.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Little outstanding on themenportal.de
- ^ "Commissioner LaBréa - Death at the Bastille" series. Francis Fulton-Smith - the nice Dr. Kleist as a nice Parisian commissioner see page tittelbach.tv. Retrieved August 7, 2020.