Commissioner LaBréa - Death at the Bastille

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Episode in the series Commissioner LaBréa
Original title Death at the Bastille
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 teamWorx Television & Film GmbH
UFA Fiction
length 88 minutes
classification Episode 1
German-language
first broadcast		 March 5th, 2009 on Das Erste
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Director Sigi Rothemund
script Alexandra von Grote
production Nico Hofmann ,
Benjamin Benedict
music Stefan Schulzki
camera Dragan Rogulj
cut Darius Simaifar
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chronology

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Death at the Bastille is a German crime film by Sigi Rothemund from 2009 based on the novel of the same name by Alexandra von Grote . It is the pilot of the television series Kommissar LaBréa by and for Das Erste . Francis Fulton-Smith plays the title role , Chiara Schoras and Bruno Bruni Jr. play his colleagues, Michael König the investigating judge , Daniel Friedrich LaBréa's superior, Valerie Niehaus a painter and LaBréa's neighbor and Leonie Brill his daughter Jenny. In addition, Hans Peter Korff can be seen as an annoying caretaker. The main guest stars of the episode are Katja Woywood , Holger Doellmann and Gudrun Landgrebe .

On the Das Erste page, there was talk of a “suspenseful crime thriller” in which “the Parisian metropolitan atmosphere shaped people and events”. Francis Fultion-Smith convinced "as a sympathetic investigator who is also required as a single father".

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Detective Inspector Maurice LaBréa dares to start over in Paris after his wife, with whom he lived in Marseille , was murdered there. He now has to reconcile his job and the care of his eleven-year-old daughter Jenny. His very first case in Paris poses a difficult task for him. He is dealing with an extremely intelligent murderer who is fooling the police. His victims are, of all people, young women who live in the Bastille district. The so-called "bloodfoot murderer", who always leaves a bloody footprint on the door of his victims' apartment, rips open wounds that have barely healed and leads the inspector emotionally to his limits. The perpetrator imitates Jean Martinez, who has been imprisoned for years and whose “trademark” was the “bloodfoot”. Fortunately, in an emergency, LaBréa can count on his very nice new neighbor, the artist Celine Charpentier, who has offered him support.

When another murder occurs, his superior Roland Thibon, whom his colleagues have given the nickname "the beautiful spirit" and who is rather vain, puts LaBréa under additional pressure by even threatening him to withdraw the case if he does brings no results. Investigative judge Joseph Coupertin, who thinks very highly of LaBréa, stands behind him when the inspector plans a risky action. Claudine Millot from LaBréa's team volunteers to act as a decoy for the killer. Millot is seriously injured in this action, the perpetrator stabs her and escapes again via a balcony. He loses his key ring.

But then another dead woman, the fourth, is found. The coroner Dr. Brigitte Foucart thinks the same procedure as with the others. Millot can provide a description of the perpetrator in the hospital, she speaks of ice-cold eyes that you will never forget. LaBréa, who is desperately looking for similarities that could connect the murdered women, falls like scales from her eyes, all victims have in common that they had to do a lot of laundry in their job. The perpetrator could have brought out freshly washed laundry. This is how you come across the name Victor Ségur. When they storm his apartment, however, it is empty. A call puts LaBréa on high alert, the perpetrator has his daughter's cell phone and has to be in his apartment. The inspector and his colleagues take a stand in front of the apartment, from which loud music can be heard. However, the apartment is empty. Then a phone call that his daughter is in good hands with him, Ségur announced. Obelix, the girl's little dog, leads LaBréa and his team on the right track. The police officers can outsmart the perpetrator and free Jenny unharmed. Ségur is shot while being accessed.

production

Production notes

Death at the Bastille was filmed on locations in and around France from August 6th to September 10th, 2008 . The film was produced by teamWorx Television & Film GmbH and UFA Fiction on behalf of ARD Degeto . Production management was the responsibility of Holger Krenz, production management Jürgen Schott and recording management Sylvia Binder and Muriel Amstalden. The editor was Diane Wurzschmitt.

publication

The German first broadcast took place on March 5, 2009 during prime time in the ARD program Das Erste.

criticism

The critics of the TV magazine TV Spielfilm gave the film one for humor and two of three possible points for suspense, pointed a thumb to the side and stated: “Murders, interpersonal and a casual touch (thanks to Bruno Bruni as Jean-Marc), done is the Parisian Brunetti. German flair contributes (unnecessarily) Hans Peter Korff as an annoying neighbor. But thanks to the very exciting story, the crime thriller saves itself from the cliché. "Conclusion:" Solid crime thriller with a family film touch "

Tilmann P. Gangloff gave the film three out of six possible stars on the tittelbach.tv website and said: “The brutal and abundantly bloody murders stand in stark contrast to the always leisurely family film narrative. Technically solid! "He also found that Degeto Film had German actors investigated abroad so that they could play local inspectors there," sometimes the work of the ARD subsidiary Degeto is already doing strange things ". The critic went on to say, “As quickly as in the first film in the series, which has already been discontinued, one has“ never seen Paris ”. The film itself does not reach “this speed, however, as expected in no minute of the film”. The "shared scenes of LaBréa with his eleven-year-old daughter Jenny [...] obey the usual ARD standard for family television". The “brutal and abundantly bloody murders” stand in “stark contrast to the repeatedly leisurely narrative”. The script fluctuates "between captivating investigative work and soap episodes". “Visually” the film is “quite elaborate [...] and the finale gripping”. In addition, Fulton-Smith had "occasionally the opportunity to suggest that he can do more" than the good family man.

The critic of the television magazine Prisma found director Sigi Rothemund “good”, having “already staged numerous Donna Leon novels about the Venetian investigator Brunetti alias Uwe Kockisch in the lagoon city of Venice ”, he is now traveling “for him Opening thriller with Francis Fulton-Smith as Commissioner Maurice LaBréa in the French capital Paris ”. In front of this “wonderful backdrop”, a “sedate and moderately exciting crime thriller” emerged, “in which Francis Fulton-Smith could not finally show himself to be a doctor”.

The film service praised: “An exciting film adaptation of a detective novel that relies on the local color of the Seine city and establishes a personable single-parent investigator. - From 16. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Commissioner LaBréa - Death at the Bastille see page daserste.de
  2. ^ Tod an der Bastille, TV-Film (series), 2008, ARD, Degeto, Krimi, Germany | Crew United
  3. ↑ Commissioner LaBréa - Death at the Bastille Movie poster Das Erste on crew-united.com
  4. ↑ Inspector LaBréa: Death at the Bastille Short review at tvspielfilm.de (including 20 film images). Retrieved August 7, 2020.
  5. ^ "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.
  6. ↑ Commissioner LaBréa - Death at the Bastille see page prisma.de. Retrieved August 7, 2020.
  7. ↑ Commissioner LaBréa - Death at the Bastille. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed August 11, 2020 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used