Commissioner Lucas - In the end there has to be luck
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| Original title | In the end there has to be luck | ||
| Country of production | Germany | ||
| original language | German | ||
| length | 90 minutes | ||
| classification | Episode 14 ( list ) | ||
| First broadcast | April 23, 2011 on ZDF | ||
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| Director | Maris Pfeiffer | ||
| script | Friedrich Ani | ||
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Molly von Fürstenberg Harry Kügler for Olga Film |
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| music | Jörg Lemberg | ||
| camera | Andreas Doub | ||
| cut | Monika Abspacher | ||
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In the end it must be luck is a ZDF film that is part of the series Kommissarin Lucas . Maris Pfeiffer directed the television film, which aired in 2011. In her fourteenth case, Commissioner Lucas ( Ulrike Kriener ) enters the milieu of old-age prostitution. The guest roles include Hannelore Elsner , Elmar Wepper , Renate Krößner , Vladimir Burlakov , Traute Hoess and Günter Junghans .
action
Chief Inspector Ellen Lucas is called to a crime scene on the Danube. There lies the corpse of a 60-year-old woman who has no papers or even a cell phone with her. She died of a head injury, bleeding to death. Among the onlookers on the bridge, the inspector notices a young man with sunglasses who seems extremely interested, but is walking away on his scooter when he notices that the officers have noticed him. Lucas and her colleague Leander Blohm go into pursuit. Her way leads her to the “Club Aurora” - night club with table dancing, as Blohm remarks. The owner Hermann Liebl tells Lucas that the young man is Philip Schumann who works in the "hurricane". Liebl complains about the "sluts from the grandma line". The "hurricane" belongs to Nadja Schumann, Philips mother. Now they also learn from the young man that the woman from the Danube is called Maria. He knew her from the pub, she was there often.
At a table in front of the restaurant, Lucas surprisingly meets her landlord Max, who is sitting there with a woman who seems to be very excited. He introduces her to Ellen as a school friend. She also knew Maria, as did Nadja Schumann. Any question the Commissioner asks, however, is blocked or answered with a counter-question. Lucas' superior Boris Noethen introduces Ellen to Ferdinand Bolte, who is missing his wife, at the police station. It quickly becomes clear that the dead Maria is Bolte's wife. It is very likely that Maria Bolte worked as a recreational prostitute. Bolte has an alibi, he was at a party that evening, and drank quite a lot. He knew what Maria was doing, he just accepted that Maria was now a "businesswoman". Lucas' pregnant employee Julia Brandl found out that Nadja Schumann used to be a prostitute herself and only took over the restaurant after her sister's death. Until then, it was a completely normal place. By the way, her son Philip grew up with her sister in Regensburg.
Lucas speaks to Nadja Schumann, who says the commissioner has no idea why women prostitute themselves. Money is always a reason. She blocks all further questions. Lucas summons Philip Schumann to the police station for an interview. He also blocks almost every question. Lucas has him shadowed by Blohm. He gets into the car from Liebl, who abuses him and threatens him massively. Liebl is known as a serious businessman who has never been guilty of anything. Both the Bolte and the Wilhelm couple live on Hartz IV . Lucas tries to find out something about Agneta through Max, who has known the woman since school.
Philip remembers Maria. She's not coming any more, she told him, and he should leave her alone before she leaves. All of a sudden Ferdinand Bolte stands in the room and threatens him. He drove his Maria crazy. At the same time, Lucas and Blohm visit Agneta Wilhelm and her husband in their home. Agneta has injuries to her face. Maria was not ashamed, she evades a question from Lucas. And it's ridiculous that Maria, with a guy as young as Philip ... She wanted to end the relationship, but Philip didn't let her go. Lucas wonders, was Agneta jealous of Maria, who made more money and even had a young lover?
Just as we want to question her again, the message comes in that he's dead. He's been stabbed. Noethen puts pressure on, since there are now two murders but no usable lead. Benedikt Huber, one of Liebl's employees, is also questioned about Liebl's murder, and rumor has it that he would like to open his own club. He had a violent argument with his boss.
Lucas speaks to Nadja Schumann that she spoke to Liebl on the phone the evening of his death. The commissioner wants to know whether Nadja doesn't mind that her son loves older women. Yes, she mind, is her answer. Lucas finds Philip in the cemetery at his aunt's grave. The headstone is engraved with the phrase “In the end, luck must be”. He answers her direct question whether Maria had to die because she wanted to part with him by answering who said that Maria was planning to do so. Nadja and Philip Schumann are increasingly being suspected. Philip passionately defends his relationship with Maria. When everything points to Philip as the murderer of Liebl, Nadja makes a confession to protect her son. However, he assures her that she cannot make amends for what she has failed to do in the past, and admits that she stabbed her to death.
Nadja's hint that Maria's husband always sneaked around the bar when Maria was with her son made Lucas sit up and take notice. He says that he accepted everything, but not that Maria suddenly came up and said that she had fallen in love. She wanted to break up with Philip, she had promised that. He hit her on the promenade and she fell. Then he just went away. Why hadn't she got up again, why?
Production, publication
In the end it must be luck was filmed from June 22nd to July 22nd 2010 in Regensburg and Munich and the surrounding area.
The film premiered on April 23, 2011 at 8:15 p.m. on ZDF .
reception
Audience rating
When it was first broadcast, this episode had 4.16 million viewers, corresponding to a market share of 16.4%.
criticism
For the lexicon of international film , Luck Must Be In The End Was A "Routine (TV Series) Crime."
Rainer Tittelbach from Tittelbach.tv certified author Friedrich Ani to have developed "a dense network of manageable, initially largely opaque relationships". "The topic [becomes] neither a 'excitement' nor a 'thoroughly discussed'. Strongly played, realistically staged, tragic miniatures. ”About the director's work, Tittelbach wrote:“ In contrast to some very stylish Lucas episodes, the director Maris Pfeiffer gives this story a suitable, cinematic, realistic impression. ”
Kai-Oliver Derks (teleschau - der mediendienst) conceded to Elmar Wepper and Günter Junghans that these were "two wonderful roles for the extremely strong acting" actors. His summary judgment was as follows: “Based on a book by Friedrich Ani, Maris Pfeifer filmed this depressing scene with the necessary decency and a lot of respect for almost everyone involved. Even if the subject of prostitution is always and constantly the topic, the main thing that came out was a film that revolves around feelings: despair, fear, longing, grief. And yes, also about love and happiness, which everyone strives for in his own way. "
Ina von Brunn from news.de also judged the episode positively and summarized: “In the end, happiness has to be highlighted, a problem located on the margins of our society. In doing so, the director and the script sensitively approach a sensitive topic without judging the women concerned. The Commissioner becomes a contrasting image of a working elderly woman who is fully integrated into society and whose thinking is barely able to penetrate the reasons that lead to prostitution. The whole thing is rounded off by excellent guest actors. "
The critic Christian Buß spoke in Spiegel Online about the fact that the investigator was played by the "great actress Ulrike Kriener" and certified the crime writer Friedrich Ani and he director Maris Pfeiffer, "that they hold the heavy material in suspension, so to speak". [...] “Light-footed and yet precise, the psycho-economic dynamics would be traced, which the not particularly lucrative side business (20 euros for half an hour) of the older women [e]." […] In this way, Commissioner Lucas 'a ray of hope in the thicket of television thriller. The dignity of the over-60 curb swallows is always preserved - even as one of them looks sad in suspenders and bodices in the mirror.
Web links
- Be at the end needs luck in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Commissioner Lucas - In the end, there has to be luck at fernsehserien.de
- Commissioner Lucas XIV In the end, Olga Film must be lucky
- Commissioner Lucas - In the end there must be luck at tvspielfilm.de (with 25 pictures of the film)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Roland von Kummant : Commissioner Lucas - In the end there must be luck , from vonkummant.com, August 23, 2010. Accessed November 20, 2016.
- ↑ Inspector Lucas - In the end there has to be luck at crew-united
- ↑ Inspector Lucas - In the end, luck must be production notes. In: IMDb.de. Retrieved October 25, 2016 .
- ↑ a b Rainer Tittelbach : Series "Inspector Lucas - In the end must be luck" Kriener, Elsner, Wepper, Burlakov, Friedrich Ani & the unusual suspects at Tittelbach.tv
- ↑ Commissioner Lucas - In the end there must be luck. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Kai-Oliver Derks: Inspector Lucas - In the end there must be luck ( Memento of the original from November 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from Stimme.de, April 23, 2011. Retrieved November 20, 2011.
- ↑ Ina von Brunn: Inspector Lucas - in the end there must be luck ( memento of the original from November 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. The Omastrich and the Hartz IV trap , April 23, 2011. Retrieved November 20, 2016.
- ↑ Christian Buß: ZDF crime thriller about old age prostitution : Whores in the autumn of life at spiegel.de, April 23, 2011. Accessed on November 20, 2016.
