Commissioner Lucas - The blue flower

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Episode in the series Commissioner Lucas
Original title The blue flower
Country of production Germany
original language German
length 89 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 1 ( list )
First broadcast March 1, 2003 on ZDF
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Director Thomas Berger
script Barbara Iago
production Olga movie
music Dieter Schleip
camera Torsten Breuer
cut Monika Abspacher
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The blue flower is a ZDF film that is part of the series Kommissarin Lucas . Thomas Berger directed the television film broadcast in 2003 . For Commissioner Lucas ( Ulrike Kriener ) it is her first case in Regensburg, where she moved from Cologne. In addition to Meret Becker and Ingo Naujoks , Maja Maranow and Alexander Held are the main guest stars of this episode.

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Chief Detective Ellen Lucas is moving from the city of Cologne to Regensburg , because her husband Paul has been in a vegetative state for three months after a car accident and he is to be treated here in a special clinic. In her first case in Regensburg, she is confronted with the murder of a five-year-old child. Maria Kürten was reported missing two days ago and has now been found dead. Parents cannot explain who could have harmed their child. According to the initial investigations, no stranger has stayed near the Kürtens house. The family relationships appear harmonious and Maria had a very good relationship with her uncle, Markus Koch. However, Ellen Lucas fears that the solution to the case will be found in the child's immediate environment. After multiple and meticulous checks of Maria's father's alibi, it turns out that he has made false statements in this regard. Joseph Kürten claims to have met a woman about which his wife should not know.

Another child disappears during the investigation - Ina Hörbiger. Since a blue lupine is found in the girl's room , as it was at the place where Maria Kürten was found, the police are extremely alarmed. For the commissioner, however, there are many small differences to Maria's case, so that she is not convinced that it is the same perpetrator. Nevertheless, the two cases intersect, because the girl's mother works as a waitress in a night cafe where Joseph Kürten often stays with his brother-in-law. Since Markus Koch found fiber traces on Maria's corpse, Inspector Lucas is orienting herself in this direction. Koch explains the fibers to the effect that he was very often with Maria and her older sister Gabi and spent a lot of time with the girls because he had grown fond of them. Ellen Lucas finds out that Markus Koch had sexually assaulted Gabi Kürten over a long period of time. This stopped as her little sister grew up. Based on these clues, Koch is arrested.

In the case of Ina Hörbiger, who has disappeared, there are now indications of Joachim Fischer, one of the witnesses who found Maria Kürten and was therefore able to know about the Blue Flower . The research shows that he was adopted as a child and that Sylvia Hörbiger is his birth mother. After Lucas and her colleague Deuter can track down the young man, they also find Ina with him unharmed. Fischer states that he wanted to protect his sister from her mother so that she would not have to go through the same thing as him. Sylvia Hörbiger is then investigated for child abuse.

There is increasing evidence against Markus Koch in the direction of child pornography. After Maria found blood stains in his workshop, he is massively suspected of murder. His wife, however, swears to the inspector that it was not him, because he loved Maria and would not harm any child. Lucas believes her and in their investigation comes to the conclusion that Valerie Koch herself killed the girl. She had noticed that her husband's love for Maria was growing steadily and that he loved the little one more than she did. Realizing how attracted her husband was to children, she had killed the girl in the mistaken belief that Maria had stolen Marcus from her. Her hope was that her husband would then be able to love her properly again.

Production, publication

The blue flower was filmed in Munich and first broadcast on March 1, 2003 in prime time on ZDF .

The first six episodes of the series were released on DVD by Edel Germany GmbH on October 8, 2010, with the fourth episode Das Verhör no longer being part of the six episodes published in Box 1 for licensing reasons.

reception

Audience rating

When Commissioner Lucas - The Blue Flower was first broadcast on ZDF on March 1, 2003 , the film was seen by 5.09 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 16.2 percent.

criticism

Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv said: “With high heels, Ulrike Kriener goes on a hunt for criminals in medieval Regensburg. Especially in the cathedral and Danube city with its cobblestones, these shoes are a constant challenge for the otherwise determined 'Inspector Lucas'. It seems that the Commissioner has to change the pace of life radically. In Regensburg the clocks run differently than in Cologne. The forensic investigations are handled by the LKA. This takes a while. Also, not everything runs smoothly within the Soko. The usual scramble for competencies with the hostile hostilities when a team is assigned a new boss. "

The critics of the TV magazine TV Spielfilm rated: "Exciting and credible case."

The short review of the German Film Service said: “Commercially available (television) crime thriller, intended as a pilot for a series whose script overshots and leads to a problem jam in an effort to confront the main character with a good dose of human misery. These qualities include short, pointed dialogues as well as a direction that succeeds in consistently staging resolutions without any gimmicky. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of release for Commissioner Lucas - The Blue Flower . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ Start dates for Commissioner Lucas - The Blue Flower . In: IMDb.de. Retrieved November 25, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Commissioner Lucas DVD box ZDF
  4. ↑ Commissioner Lucas Information on the DVD box. Retrieved September 4, 2017.
  5. ↑ a b Rainer Tittelbach : Ulrike Kriener is also a commissioner. The ZDF crime series is impressive. Film review at tittelbach.tv, accessed on August 31, 2017.
  6. ↑ Commissioner Lucas - The Blue Flower In: TV Spielfilm , November 25, 2016.
  7. ↑ Brief review of Commissioner Lucas - The Blue Flower at filmdienst.de, accessed on August 31, 2017.