Commissioner LaBréa

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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 05th 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. "

- Teleschau : Mon Dieu, the Germans are coming!

“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 ... "

- Elmar Krekeler in Die Welt on March 5, 2009 : Commissioner LaBréa and the criminal cardboard comrades

"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

Individual evidence

  1. Little outstanding on themenportal.de
  2. ^ "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.