Commissioner LaBréa - Murder on Rue St. Lazare

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Episode in the series Commissioner LaBréa
Original title Murder on Rue St. Lazare
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 teamWorx Television & Film GmbH
UFA Fiction
length 88 minutes
classification Episode 2
German-language
first broadcast		 April 22, 2010 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Dennis Satin
script Jürgen Büscher
production Benjamin Benedict ,
Nico Hofmann ,
Gesa Tönnesen
music Stefan Schulzki
camera Sven Kirsten
cut Betina Vogelsang
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
Commissioner LaBréa - Death at the Bastille

Successor  →
Commissioner LaBréa - Dreams of Death at Montparnasse

Murder on Rue St. Lazare is a German crime film by Dennis Satin from 2010 based on the novel of the same name by Alexandra von Grote . It is the second episode of the television series Commissioner LaBréa by and for Das Erste . Francis Fulton-Smith is cast in the title role , as his colleagues Anja Knauer and Bruno Bruni, and Daniel Friedrich as supervisor . Valerie Niehaus is again there as a painter and neighbor. The main guest stars of the episode are Katja Flint , Felicitas Woll , Jule Ronstedt , Simon Verhoeven , Wanja Mues , Guntbert Warns and Gudrun Landgrebe as coroners.

Prisma wrote: "LaBréa has to unravel a web of lies, deceit, hatred and blackmail ...".

action

Main storyline

Detective Inspector Maurice LaBréa is confronted with the murder of the film producer Jacques Molin, who has been shot. Molin was once very successful. The inspector found the script for a film entitled "Murder on Rue St. Lazare" on his desk. The coroner Dr. Brigitte Foucart knew the producer, who she believed had already retired. The dead man was found by his production assistant Nadine Capelli. The previous evening he had a visit from director Mathieu Salmi and the cameraman Remy Favre, she says. The valuable gold Molins watch is missing as well as around 3,000 euros that were in the safe. LaBréa's new colleague Corinne Dupont tells her boss that Molin had his last conversations with a Vincent Brihac. Brihac has multiple criminal records and is considered to be violent. When they visit him, they find Germaine, Molin's wife, with him. She frankly admits that Brihac is her lover. Her husband knew that they had had a mutually open marriage.

Dupont's investigations have shown that the film was largely financed by Germaine Molin with 1.6 million euros, although she did not believe in the film material and initially refused to participate. LaBréa suspects that the money that did not come from Germaine Molin's personal fortune was black money that was supposed to be laundered. He also confronts Molin's wife that there was an unambiguous testimony that proves that Brihac could not have spent the whole night with her. She then admits that Brihac was gone for a short time and that he met a friend in a bistro. In the presence of Germaine Molin, Brihac has to admit that he wanted to collect his reward from Molin that evening, which he would have been entitled to on the basis of an agreement with the film producer. He rang the doorbell, but Molin did not answer. That was around eleven thirty. Molin paid him to keep Germaine happy and to influence him. He didn't kill Molin. Germaine Molin finds this statement difficult.

Mullier, who was arrested on the basis of police chief Roland Thibon's measures, assures that he has found the victim's watch in a wastebasket. LaBréa doesn't believe he killed the producer anyway. Thibon has to admit defeat, but demands results within a short time.

In response to intensive inquiries, Caroline Becker admits that she was with Molin on the evening of the murder. He enjoyed the situation, LaBréa couldn't even imagine what kind of pig he was. She was lying in bed and listening to music through headphones. Then she heard a bang similar to a shot. She didn't dare to leave the room and waited some time. When she looked, she found Molin lying on the carpet with a gunshot wound in the head. Her friend Mathieu did not know anything about her relationship with him that Molin had forced.

At the same time, Mathieu Salmi tells Corinne Dupont that Caroline got involved with Molin for him. You knew how much he wanted to make his first feature film. Otherwise Molin would never have given him the job. He asks the Commissioner not to promise Caroline that he knew about her relationship with Molin, analogous to Caroline's request to LaBréa.

Vincent Brihac calls Germaine Molin and when she tries to get rid of him, he says he has photos that are guaranteed to interest her. A little later, he rioted in front of Germaine's apartment, after he found entry, he brutally beat Dominique up and yelled that he wanted his money. LaBréa doesn't believe, however, that Brihac murdered the producer. In a conversation with Maitre Fossard, Molin's lawyer, it turns out that Molin is said to have sold a film to a pharmaceutical company. The officers find a video cassette in the murder victim's private safe. The pharmaceutical company Globozin has tried a non-approved agent on children against their better knowledge, which, according to a chemist who speaks in the film, has serious side effects and can cause permanent damage. Although the company knew that, it was accepted. He should have gone public much earlier, but was too cowardly. He was ready to testify against Globozin, although he was scared as hell because he knew what this company was capable of.

Nadine Capelli's son Julien recently started using a wheelchair. LaBréa and his colleagues Jean-Marc Lagarde and Corinne Dupont learn from Capelli that the scientist who can be seen in the film was found dead, allegedly suicide. Although she had the film, she was completely on her own and was afraid that these people might do something to her or even Julien just to get to the film. She needed Molin's support because he was influential and had contacts everywhere. He could have put the film on television. Instead, however, he blackmailed Globozin with the film. She was so stupid. He told her that he had destroyed the film. It was only when she noticed the surprising funding for the film production that she wanted certainty and went to Molin. He reacted rudely and then said that nobody was interested in "this unimportant shit" when she wanted the film back. She knew about the pistol in the drawer and reached for the gun. Only after she shot did she understand what she was doing.

Parallel plot

The connection between LaBréa and Céline Charpentier is getting closer, something that LaBréa's daughter Jenny does not miss. However, she grants her father a new happiness, especially since she gets on well with Celine.

Production, publication

Murder on Rue St. Lazare was filmed on locations in Berlin and Paris from July 31 to September 25, 2009 . The film was produced by teamWorx Television & Film GmbH and UFA Fiction . In Alexandra von Grote's book series, this is the first case of Inspector LaBréa.

The film premiered on April 22, 2010.

reception

Audience rating

When it was first broadcast, the film was viewed by 4.05 million viewers, which corresponded to a market share of 14.8 percent.

criticism

The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm rated murder in the Rue St. Lazare with the words "Bräsiger Krimi vor a beautiful backdrop" with their average rating, thumbs to the side.

Rainer Tittelbach gave the film 2½ out of 6 possible stars on his page tittelbach.tv and summarized his criticism as follows: “High-gloss crime thriller with a view. Psychological zero number with put on funny dialogues in neat interiors. Dignified Whodunit with well-known cast. Tired family thriller! ", Which was" polished to a shine ", but Paris was" a great backdrop ". Real crime fans could "safely forget" the case.

Marco Croner from Oddsmeter.de asked whether “Vacation and murder is the new recipe for success in German crime television” and answered: “Hardly.” It was certainly a “nice idea”, “German actors in Paris unite Let the case be cleared up and choose 'Salut' and 'Madame' as key words, but if the story development is drowning in mere clichés ”,“ the French charm doesn't help ”either. LaBréa's second episode was “exactly that”: “A single cliché.” […] “Far more serious [is] the resolution of the crime, in which the screenwriter Jürgen Büscher was obviously trying to create a completely unpredictable scenario even for those familiar with the original which, in the end, involuntarily overshadows every stereotype. ”With the actors one could“ definitely come to terms - in order to fill in the tiny patterns ”,“ after all, there is no need for great art ”. Croner concluded: "'Murder in the Rue St. Lazare' offers an unsuccessful mixture of crime fiction and family entertainment, which just has nothing to oppose any more innovative counter-program."

The Prisma editorial team said that “criminal cases in exotic locations with German actors” ensured “always good ratings” with their cases. This second, “prominent episode” by Inspector LaBréa “in front of the wonderful backdrop of the Seine metropolis” was “routinely staged and acted, but” “beautiful pictures and an attractive cast crew alone do not make a good thriller”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Commissioner LaBréa - Murder on Rue St. Lazare see page prisma.de. Retrieved August 14, 2020.
  2. ^ Mord in der Rue St. Lazare, TV film (series), 2009, ARD, Krimi, Germany | Crew United
  3. ↑ Murder on Rue St. Lazare: The first case for Commissioner LaBréa by Alexander Grote see page wasliestdu.de
  4. ↑ Commissioner LaBréa - Murder on Rue St. Lazare. Dreams of Death at Montparnasse Movie poster The first on the crew-unitedcom page
  5. ↑ Murder in the Rue St. Lazare Short review on tvspielfilm.de (including film images). Retrieved August 14, 2020.
  6. ↑ Rainer Tittelbach : Series "Commissioner LaBréa - Murder in the Rue St. Lazare". Fulton-Smith, Flint, Woll, Ronstedt, Niehaus, Landgrebe, Paris and a murder! see page tittelbach.tv. Retrieved August 14, 2020.
  7. ↑ Marco Croner: "Murder in the Rue St. Lazare" see page quotenmeter.de. April 19, 2010. Accessed August 14, 2020.