Commissioner Lucas - Family Secret

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Episode in the series Commissioner Lucas
Original title Family secret
Country of production Germany
original language German
length 90 minutes
classification Episode 25 ( List )
First broadcast 2017 on ZDF
Rod
Director Ralf Huettner
script Thomas Schwebel
Daniel Schwarz
production Harald Kügler ,
Arbia-Magdalena Said
music Ralf Hilden Beutel
Stevie B-Zet
camera Thorsten Harms
cut Zaz Montana
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
Commissioner Lucas - Guilty

Successor  →
Commissioner Lucas - Lionheart

Commissioner Lucas - Family Secret is a ZDF film that is part of the series Kommissarin Lucas . Ralf Huettner directed the television film that was broadcast in 2017. In her 25th case, Ellen Lucas ( Ulrike Kriener ) has to deal with conspiracy theories and underground weapons depots of the neo-Nazis and the resulting events. The main guest stars of this episode are Peter Wolf , Merlin Rose , Almila Bagriacik as well as Robert Hunger-Bühler , Lana Cooper and Tomasso Ragno .

action

Andy Wolf, known as the author of numerous bestsellers on conspiracy theories, visits Detective Inspector Ellen Lucas in the police station again. He's quite excited and offers the commissioner a deal. If she supports him in his latest research and also gives him access to the police database, he will provide her with information on underground weapons depots that neo-Nazis have access to.

When Lucas learns that Andy Wolf is said to have died in an apartment fire, she blames herself for not taking him seriously. But then it turns out that the dead man is not a wolf, but his co-author Florian Reichelt. While Lucas and his colleague Judith Marlow visit Reichelt's wife, she receives a call from Wolf. When Lucas insisted that he had to report to the police station because he was suspicious because the fire had started in his apartment and he had switched off the fire alarms, he replied that she should ask herself why one should wanted to destroy the evidence gathered by him at all costs. The neo-Nazis are after him.

Wolf succeeds in depositing an envelope with the coordinates of Lucas' landlord Max Kirchhoff, who is left in their apartment. The envelope reads: “If something happens to me.” Lucas then asks Max to return the second apartment key, making it clear what she thinks that this has given a stranger access to her apartment.

Lucas makes it clear to her superior, Boris Noethen, that she does not believe that Wolf has anything to do with the apartment fire. Through the coordinates, the officers come across a hut that a Jürgen Conrad, deputy military supreme commander a. D., who said in a questioning that his son Johannes discovered the weapons depot there, which belonged to the historically documented “ Gladio ” program of NATO from the 1950s, quite by accident. The weapons have since been picked up and the warehouse is empty. Johannes Conrad attracted attention in the past for singing the Horst Wessel song and other activities in this direction.

Maria Grasso, the daughter of the pizzeria run by the Grasso couple, is questioned. Andy Wolf often stayed in the restaurant below his apartment. Grasso admits that Johannes Conrad, who was in a relationship with her, asked her for the key to the personal toilets in the Minoritenkirche , where a tribute to Georg Elser will take place shortly . She leads through events there. A little later there is a fight between Johannes Conrad and Andy Wolf, in which the author is injured by a shot. Johannes Wolf's father Jürgen is consulted for a survey. Johannes attacks his father. It is obvious that the relationship between father and son is completely broken.

Lucas interrogates the innkeeper Daniele Grasso, whose sister was killed in the 1980 bomb attack in Bologna . He has the hard drive that Andy Wolf kept hidden in his basement. On this are the secret interrogation protocols of the attack on Bologna Central Station, for which Grasso is complicit. Reichelt must have discovered this, which explains the total of 30,000 euros deposited into his account. Lucas tells Grasso that he set fire to Wolf's apartment to get rid of Reichelt, who was blackmailing him. Grasso admits everything, he was unable to pay the 20,000 euros hush money demanded by Reichelt again, he simply ran out of money.

production

Production notes, publication

The film had the working title: Commissioner Lucas - Gladio . It is a production by Olga Film on behalf of ZDF. In the credits of the film it is mentioned that production assistance was provided by Audi AG. Family Secret was filmed from October 4 to December 8, 2016 in Regensburg , Munich and the surrounding area. The film premiered on May 6, 2017 in prime time on ZDF .

background

The authors Thomas Schwebel and Daniel Schwarz had already written the script for the previous Schuldig case . For director Ralf Huettner, this was his fourth film in the Lucas series after Gierig (2011), Der Wald (2015) and Kreuzweg (2016).

In an interview, Ulrike Kriener replied to the question of how her character had developed that Lucas had "naturally changed in nuances", "just like every person through the relationship constellations in which he is". But “in the core” it remained the same. A “woman with a tendency to become a single-minded person”, who “could become aggressive from the start”, a “moral woman” who “has no problem” with “leading her team and to whom her colleagues would assume a certain roughness”. Kriener went on to say that she actually still enjoyed the role. When asked about her relationship with Regensburg, the actress said that she had become “more and more familiar” with the city over the years, that she liked the “special atmosphere of Regensburg” and that she and her husband came to Regensburg privately “at least once a year”.

reception

Audience rating

Family Secret was seen by 4.62 million viewers when it was first broadcast, which corresponds to a market share of 16.1%.

criticism

Volker Bergmeister wrote a review for Tittelbach.tv , which was positive. He said the film offers "a strong story, an atmospherically dense production and multi-faceted characters". The “political dimension of the case makes this crime thriller not only exciting, but also an educational matter”. Bergmeister went on to say that “film and case show the strengths of this ZDF series” with an investigator who could be “serious, energetic, but also emotional and personal”. The story of the author duo Schwebel / Schwarz is "cleverly and intelligently built". And the “political dimension makes this crime thriller not only exciting, but also an educational issue”. The “striking camera work” by Thorsten Harms, who provided “impressive images [also] in the burned-out apartment”, was also praised.

TV Spielfilm saw it differently and found the film “neither really exciting nor psychologically sophisticated”. The result seems, "despite some good moments", [...] "confused, confused and only little inspired". So the conclusion was then: "A bit of a runaway, no train or drama".

Lars von der Gönna headlined in the Berliner Morgenpost “The 25th case of 'Inspector Lucas' is not a great moment.” “How it is with silver anniversaries,” wrote von der Gönna, the 25th case “the lone wolf” presented “one Gift basket that kills you. ”The“ inclined viewer ”already has“ after 48 minutes ”the“ feeling of being seen 88 ”. After all, in the book by Thomas Schwebel and Daniel Schwarz, “the dry dialogue wit that has often distinguished the Lucas books” flashes “still reasonably reliable”. Lars von der Gönnas drew the rather negative conclusion: "Veteran heroine, not in the best of shape."

Kino.de admitted the film had "high ambitions", but "too many entanglements and entanglements" meant that family secrets were "quite constructed". However, it is a "very interesting construct".

For the online portal Filmdienst , the case turned out to be a “conventionally routine (TV series) crime thriller”, “which seems to try too hard to serve the premise that nothing is as it is”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Commissioner Lucas - family secret at crew united
  2. ↑ Julia Behl: Commissioner Lucas - Family Secret Interview with Ulrike Kriener, see presseportal.zdf.de
  3. ^ A b Volker Bergmeister : Series “Commissioner Lucas - Family Secret”. Ulrike Kriener, Roll, Myhr, Richter, Ralf Huettner: Crime with a political background see Tittelbach.tv . Retrieved February 26, 2019.
  4. ↑ Commissioner Lucas: Family secret see tvspielfilm.de (including 16 film images). Retrieved February 26, 2019.
  5. ↑ Lars von der Gönna: The 25th case of "Commissioner Lucas" is no great hour. In: Berliner Morgenpost , May 6, 2017. Accessed on February 26, 2017.
  6. ↑ Commissioner Lucas: Family secret see kino.de. Retrieved February 26, 2019.
  7. ↑ Commissioner Lucas - family secret see filmdienst.de. Retrieved February 26, 2019.