Commissioner Lucas - The Black Man

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Episode in the series Commissioner Lucas
Original title The black man
Country of production Germany
length 90 minutes
classification Episode 9
First broadcast November 29, 2008 on ZDF
Rod
Director Christiane Balthasar
script Sabine Kalinowski ,
Patrick Weber
production Molly von Fürstenberg ,
Harry Kügler for Olga Film
music Johannes Kobilke ,
Stefan Ziethen
camera Markus Hausen BVK
cut Andreas Althoff
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
Commissioner Lucas - anger in the stomach

Successor  →
Commissioner Lucas - Forget and Forgive

The Black Man is a ZDF film that is part of the series Kommissarin Lucas . Christiane Balthasar directed the television film, which was broadcast in 2008. Commissioner Lucas ( Ulrike Kriener ) is confronted with the murder of a twelve-year-old boy in which pedophilia is involved. The main guest stars of this episode are Alice Dwyer and Bernd Tauber , Aljoscha Sena Zinflou and Peter Kurth as well as the child actors Sandro Iannotta and Mia-Sophie Wellenbrink .

action

Sven Reimer is found dead in the forest in the immediate vicinity of a children's holiday camp. The only twelve-year-old boy was most likely murdered, as forensic evidence suggests. Chief Detective Ellen Lucas is investigating inside the holiday camp where she notices Lars Berger, who is dark-skinned and has no alibi. Little Stefanie, daughter of Inspector Martin Schiff, who is also in the children's holiday camp, tells her father about an ominous black man she saw the night Sven disappeared. Tim, like the late Sven Reimer, is a child in the home, tells Lucas about a magic stone with a face that Sven always carried with him and that he would now like to have, but which has disappeared without a trace since his death.

Then the homeless Antholz is the target of the investigation, who firmly claims that the boy has already been found dead and has nothing to do with the murder. During an interrogation by Lucas, Antholz collapses surprisingly. The emergency doctor who is called can only determine his death. The homeless man was hit by a car shortly after the child was found and had not waited for the final examination at the hospital. Office manager Boris Noethen then wants to stop the investigation because he thinks Antholz is the culprit. But Ellen Lucas had doubts and asked Noethen to give her 48 hours to investigate further. Noethen agrees.

Lucas rents Jürgen Müller's forest restaurant, which is located near the holiday camp. Then the stone reappears, it was in the carer belonging to the camp. All three have a key to the vehicle. Tina Burckhard has since found out that wherever Jürgen Müller ran a restaurant, cases of child abuse occurred and that Müller left shortly afterwards. Lucas finds a box in Müller's possession with lots of white stones with a face scratched into it. Then little Tim has disappeared and Katja, who is looking for him with Lucas, is pushed into the abyss at the quarry by the young woman, but can just hold on. At the very last moment, Jürgen Müller saves the inspector and pulls her up.

It turns out that Jürgen Müller is the uncle of the supervisor Katja Müller. Katja loves him like a father and describes him as such and the only person who looked and understood how she was doing. Although Katja wants to protect Jürgen Müller, Lucas finds out that she only came in after Müller put his hand to Sven's mouth when he screamed. Believing that the child was dead, Katja transported the boy to the quarry in the camp car and threw him into the abyss. It should look like Sven had an accident. However, at this point the child was still alive. Lucas tells Katja that she thought she was covering up a murder, but the child could still be alive if she had looked properly. Jürgen Müller reacts helplessly when Lucas tells him about it and confronts him with the fact that he had turned Katja into a murderer.

production

Filming, publication

The film, which Thomas Berger and Christian Jeltsch were involved in editing the script , was shot in Regensburg and the surrounding area and first broadcast on ZDF on November 29, 2008 during prime time .

Episodes 7–12 were released on DVD on September 16, 2016 by Studio Hamburg Enterprises.

Private matters of the commissioners

Lucas learns from Tina Burckhard that she has not been in a relationship with Martin Schiff for a long time, but that she is only good friends. Rike, Ellen Lucas' sister, has since made friends with Ellen's landlord Max. When Rike, who thinks she is pregnant, lugs in a dog, Max, who first explains that it is not allowed to keep animals in the house, is ultimately completely in love with the animal.

criticism

The critics of the TV magazine TV Spielfilm gave the best possible rating (thumbs up) and found: "Christiane Balthasar, who has presented profound psychological shockers with TV productions such as 'Vertraute Angst', stages with a sure hand: She subtly stirs up the viewer's fears - and skilfully undermines their expectations. ”The conclusion was therefore also:“ Sensitive topic, cleverly implemented ”.

tpg from Kino.de stated that “pedophilia” is “always a sensitive topic”, especially since with the Saturday crime thriller you “also have to expect” “that children are watching”. The "dilemma" is avoided by the fact that the script leaves the "background completely open for a long time" and "only suggests later []". The director used “the chance” to “give the inspector, who was apparently felt by many viewers as too hard and insufferable, softer features” and referred to the conversations with little Tim, played by Sandro Iannotta, who were “very warm-hearted”. With regard to the private level in the individual episodes, which often seem like a foreign body in “other thrillers”, the “harmonious integration” is “further evidence of the quality of the series”.

Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv stated that the announcements that Ellen Lucas usually made were "factual, precise, cool" and brief. In order to solve her ninth case, she must now "make friends with a child". Tittelbach went on to say: “'The black man' retains something that floats for a long time - the tension is always revitalized. Concise interrogation scenes, the camp atmosphere. This time the particularly sophisticated private cosmos and convincing guest actors round off the strong crime thriller, whose little tricks are often overlooked. ”The critic then also concluded that this was“ a strong 'Lucas' case ”, which was“ slightly above average in the row "- and" that means something! "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Commissioner Lucas IX The Black Man see olgafilm.de
  2. ^ Commissioner Lucas ZDF-Box, episodes 7-12
  3. ↑ Commissioner Lucas - The Black Man See tvspielfilm.de. Retrieved November 5, 2018.
  4. ↑ tpg: Commissioner Lucas: The Black Man sS kino.de. Retrieved November 5, 2018.
  5. ^ Rainer Tittelbach : Series "Commissioner Lucas - The Black Man". Ulrike Kriener, Alice Dwyer, Bernd Tauber. In child murder, the Eiserne softens sS tittelbach.tv . Retrieved November 5, 2018.