Commissioner Lucas - The Death Ship
| Episode in the series Commissioner Lucas | |||
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| Original title | The death ship | ||
| Country of production | Germany | ||
| original language | German | ||
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Olga Film GmbH | ||
| length | 90 minutes | ||
| classification | Episode 7 ( list ) | ||
| First broadcast | November 24, 2007 on ZDF | ||
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| Director | Thomas Berger | ||
| script | Christian Jeltsch | ||
| production |
Molly von Fürstenberg , Viola Jäger , Harry Kügler |
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| music | Dieter Schleip | ||
| camera | Torsten Breuer | ||
| cut | Monika Abspacher | ||
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The Death Ship is a ZDF film that is part of the series Kommissarin Lucas . As in the previous six episodes, Thomas Berger directed the 2007 television film. In her seventh case in Regensburg, Commissioner Lucas ( Ulrike Kriener ) has to solve the mysterious death of a group of senior citizens who were on a butter trip . The main guest stars of this episode are Jenny Schily , Max Tidof , Hannes Jaenicke and Hans Peter Hallwachs .
action
Chief Detective Ellen Lucas hurries with her superior Boris Noethen to a ship on the Danube where they have been called. There is a cruel sight for the commissioners. Twelve old people have died here. Only one woman survived, Greta Wache. There is no trace of Toni Kehring, the caretaker for some of the old people. It quickly becomes clear that potassium cyanide in the amaretto caused human deaths. Lucas must assume robbery and murder , as the dead have all their valuables, such as jewelry, purses and credit cards, have been stripped. When Lucas and Noethen want to ask Anne Kehring about her husband, she behaves conspicuously and reacts extremely irritably to the inspectors' questions.
Five of the victims were patients from the city clinic, two came from Regensburg and the surrounding area, the rest are unknown, Lucas explains to her team. The perpetrator had mixed the potassium cyanide with almond liqueur so that you wouldn't taste it, Commissioner Schiff added, according to Wikipedia, around 140 mg of it are fatal. Lucas seeks a conversation with Peter Sion, the doctor responsible for Greta Wache. She learns that the woman is paralyzed from the thoracic vertebra and is currently unable to interrogate.
Lucas finds it very difficult when she has to discipline her closest colleague, Stefan Deuter, because he broke into suspect Kehring's house and was caught doing it. Although she realizes that something is wrong with him, she cannot get him to reveal himself to her. In the meantime, the entertainer Rolf Gembel, who is supposed to entertain the people on the ship, has passed on his knowledge to the press, which makes it known that a woman survived the poison attack. That puts Greta Wache in additional danger. And then Wache is actually kidnapped from the hospital. Lucas takes Peter Sion into prayer. He pointed out that Wacht needed medication, if she didn't get it within 24 hours, it would mean her death.
Lucas summons Anne Kehring for interrogation; it has been found that around € 1.8 million have been withdrawn from the dead's accounts in recent months. Kehring, who runs a nursing service, complains that she has recently been losing more and more patients who are now afraid of her because of the reports in the press, and that she has to endure ranting over the phone. The old sick are not only grateful, but also bitter, they hate the world, their children, whom they have forgotten, their immobility, their sick, incompetent bodies, the nursing staff would get all that.
Then, however, the body of Toni Kehring appears and Noethen and Lucas realize that they have been following the wrong lead the whole time. Since the trail of the captain of the ship and his family leads nowhere, Noethen and Lucas are sure that only the entertainer Rolf Gembel will remain. He admits that he used the dead people's cards to withdraw money from their accounts, but firmly denies that he had anything to do with the murder.
In the meantime, Lucas also knows why Stefan Deuter acted so strangely. His grandmother, who raised him, was among the dead on the ship. She left Stefan a farewell letter which Lucas reads out to him at his request. In it, she indicates that she left her wealth to those who really need it. Stefan tells Lucas that his grandmother had very bad results and could no longer have lived alone. He then asked about a home, what else should he have done, he says bitterly.
It turns out that Anne Kehring has the twelve old people and also her husband Toni on her conscience. The elderly would have suffered pain and had a right to be saved from it, and they would all have given their wealth voluntarily to a great project in which families could live together in three-generation homes. This project was initiated by Dr. Peter Sion, the man with whom Anne Kehring has a relationship. Sion, who can attend the interrogation behind the window, cannot believe what he is hearing. He didn't know anything about any of this.
After Anne Kehring's tip, Greta Wache can be found just in time. It was her husband Adam who had organized the joint suicide using the cyanide acquired from Anne Kehring.
production
Filming, publication
The film was shot in the period from August 21st to October 28th, 2006 in Regensburg and the surrounding area and first broadcast on November 24th, 2007 in prime time on ZDF .
The first six episodes of the series were released on DVD by Edel Germany GmbH on October 8, 2010, whereby the fourth episode, The Interrogation, is no longer part of the six episodes published in Box 1 for licensing reasons, even if a ruling by the regional court has since been issued Koblenz expressly does not prohibit the broadcasting and distribution of the film. In addition, Edel Germany GmbH released a box with the first twelve films on October 8, 2010 (episode four was also omitted here).
Private matters of the commissioners
Ellen Lucas' sister Rike moves into her own apartment in Max Kirchhoff's house after differences between the sisters arose and Rike was determined to turn her back on Regensburg. The situation between Boris Noethen and Lucas is easing again after she surprised him in a precarious situation with Rike. In this episode, Max is admitted to the Regensburg hospital with a suspected heart attack. He has to stay there for a while to observe, but at the end of the episode is completely the same again.
background
Ulrike Kriener commented on the appearance of a sister of Ellen Lucas (for the first time at the end of the previous episode) that they were “looking for something dramaturgically” in order to “revive Ellen Lucas, to be able to see her privately and emotionally”: “The family is always that what upsets them most; hence the unequal sister and this explosive relationship. "
criticism
The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm each gave one of three possible points for humor, ambition and tension, pointed their thumbs to the side and drew the conclusion: "A thriller that would like to be more than it is". Even if the series is certainly “striving for quality” and has “its moments”, this case will “soon be transparent”, also “depth hardly emerges” and moreover “the existence of Lucas as a woman in pain (with Anke Engelke as sister) badly overdone ”.
Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv saw it differently and spoke of a “remarkable 'Kommissarin Lucas episode'”, in which it was “about dying in our society, about being old, about the fear of being cared for”. 'Das Totenschiff' offers “more than the usual crime thriller entertainment, as it will turn out in the course of the 90 minutes,” Tittelbach said. Also, "the editors have done well to freshen up Ellen Lucas' environment a little" by adding a "younger sister, spontaneous tomboy and an exact counterpart to the heroine".
At Kino.de one was of the opinion of Commissioner Lucas “after all, I don't just stand for a claim, but also for a message”. After the last time in the episode German Angst was about “the subject of asylum and deportation”, euthanasia is now being “debated verbatim”. Even if "current events in history would add a certain explosiveness", crime thrillers "experience has shown that it is rarely good if they are used as a vehicle for social discourse". "Exceptionally" suffered "the tension of the film [...] but only a little".
Prisma spoke of a "solid and excitingly staged case with an [r] unusual resolution". “The social component - the life of older people in our society -” plays “a bigger role than the actual crime story”.
Web links
- Commissioner Lucas - The death ship in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Commissioner Lucas and the death ship on the Danube sS presseportal.de
- Commissioner Lucas - The Death Ship sS diethelm-glaser-net
Individual evidence
- ↑ Commissioner Lucas - Das Totenschiff sS crew-united.com
- ↑ Commissioner Lucas DVD box ZDF
- ↑ Commissioner Lucas Information on the DVD box. Retrieved September 4, 2017.
- ^ LG Koblenz: broadcast of a film about a criminal sS telemedicus.info
- ↑ Commissioner Lucas Fig. DVD case Collector's Edition
- ↑ a b Rainer Tittelbach : Series "Kommissarin Lucas - Das Totenschiff". Ulrike Kriener, Anke Engelke, Jeltsch & Berger: not only dramaturgically updated sS tittelbach.tv . Retrieved November 7, 2018.
- ↑ Commissioner Lucas: Das Totenschiff See tvspielfilm.de (including 30 film images). Retrieved November 7, 2011.
- ↑ Inspector Lucas: Das Totenschiff sS kino.de (including 16 film images). Retrieved November 7, 2018.
- ↑ Commissioner Lucas sS prisma.de. Retrieved November 7, 2018.
