Commissioner Lucas - German fear
| Episode in the series Commissioner Lucas | |||
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| Original title | German fear | ||
| Country of production | Germany | ||
| original language | German | ||
| classification | Episode 6 ( list ) | ||
| First broadcast | September 29, 2007 on ZDF | ||
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| Director | Thomas Berger | ||
| script | Thomas Berger Friedrich Ani |
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| production | Molly von Fürstenberg Viola Jäger Harry Kügler for Olga Film |
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| music | Dieter Schleip | ||
| camera | Torsten Breuer | ||
| cut | Monika Abspacher | ||
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German Angst is a ZDF film that is part of the series Kommissarin Lucas . Thomas Berger directed the 2007 television film. In her sixth case, Commissioner Lucas ( Ulrike Kriener ) has to deal with kidnappers who want to blackmail the Nigerian Lucy Arano (Lorraine Yakubu) from being deported . The very conservative public prosecutor Elisabeth Ronfeldt ( Monika Bleibtreu ) shows certain sympathy for the goals of the kidnappers.
Thomas Berger wrote the script together with the writer Friedrich Ani , on whose novel the story is based.
action
Natalia Horn, the fiancée of Nigerian Chris Arano, has been kidnapped. His daughter Lucy is questioned by detectives Boris Noethen and Stefan Deuter. All of a sudden she hurts Deuter, who put his hand on her shoulder in a friendly manner, by attacking him uncontrollably. In a letter from the kidnappers, signed "Aktion D", Lucy is asked to be deported within three days, otherwise Natalia would have to die. There are 50 registered crimes on Lucy's account: “Theft, extortion, assault; Lucy has fought her way through the entire criminal code, ”says Chief Detective Ellen Lucas, who is responsible for the case, informing her colleagues. The girl only turned 14 a month ago, so she was previously under the age of criminal responsibility . Now Lucy has to answer for grievous bodily harm, which could result in her long-requested expulsion. An attempt to speak to the adolescent in custody fails because she does not say a word.
Together with his colleague Deuter, Lucas visits Lucy's last victim, the student Paul Huber. She hit him with a slat, smashed his cheekbone , he almost lost an eye, and his face had to be sewn in several places. The boy looks pathetic. An encounter with the investigating public prosecutor Elisabeth Ronfeldt, who is investigating the case of the assault by Lucy, irritates both Lucas and Deuter, since her words tell what she thinks of Lucy.
The officers learn from Chris Arano that his wife, Lucy's mother, killed herself four years ago because she could no longer stand it in Germany. Lucas also learns that Lucy's relationship with Natalia wasn't the best, on the contrary. The neighbors, who are asked whether they have seen anything, express themselves primarily about Lucy and show little understanding that the police are not cracking down on them. The conversation with Elisabeth Ronfeldt also confirms that she too is of the opinion that Lucy has been terrorizing the people around her for years and that the state, like her father, is watching helplessly.
A witness hearing by Erwin Huber shows how hardened the fronts are with regard to Lucy. He poisons Lucas that his son will remain disfigured for his life. Jürgen Barthel suddenly appears in the police building and hands over Klaus Linz into the custody of the police, stating that this is the man who kidnapped Natalia Horn. The United German, to which he belongs, wants it to be recorded that the kidnapping of Ms. Horn is condemned in the strongest possible terms. Lucas believes that the men want to turn the situation into an election spectacle. Klaus Linz keeps repeating that the girl has to go, she doesn't belong here. He sees the guilt for everything that happens now with those responsible, who do not expel Lucy. In an unsupervised moment, he leaps out of the window to his death. Prosecutor Ronfeldt remarks that Natalia Horn now only has one chance, Lucy Arano must leave the country as quickly as possible.
Lucas tries again to start a conversation with Lucy. She tells her about her father's death. Shortly thereafter, at a press conference, there was a scandal between Deuter and Ronfeldt, whereupon Lucas saw no other option than to withdraw her employee from the case. In a conversation with Chris Arano, the commissioner learns that the prosecutor has advised him to leave the country with his daughter. Lucas believes Erwin Huber is involved in the case. The superintendent advocates faking Lucy's escape. This could be used to nullify the ultimatum. A dangerous undertaking for everyone involved begins at the end of which Lucas Lucy hides with him. However, she cannot go any further with the girl.
Time is running out. Holger Bach-Rommel, who was found by Deuter and formerly a member of the right-wing scene, gives a clue about the man who must have written the kidnapper's letter on an old Adler typewriter. To the great surprise of his colleagues, Bach identified the policeman Rudi Benz as the one who bought the typewriter. Bach remains obstinate, however, no matter what Lucas says. Shortly afterwards, a nasty incident occurs on the premises of the police building when Benz and Arano collide and the Nigerian puts the policeman's wife in mortal danger, so that he finally reveals where Natalia Horn has been hidden. They are found in a sorry state but alive. "Look closely," says Lucas, looking at the woman, "you can never make it up to you".
production
Production notes, publication
The film was produced by Olga Film GmbH. German Angst was filmed in and around Regensburg .
The film premiered on September 29, 2007 in prime time on ZDF .
The episode was released on DVD by Studio Hamburg Enterprises on August 12, 2016, along with five other cases in the series.
Private matters of the commissioners
Deuter notices that after returning from her requested short vacation, Lucas reacts with noticeable reluctance when he asks her about it. When Boris Noethen, Ellen's immediate superior, lets her know that he would like to establish a private relationship with her (both of them have slept together in an episode before), even if everyone carries around a lot, he his ex-wife and the children and Ellen her late husband Paul, she replies very suddenly that her father had died, that was the reason for her absence. He actually doesn't know anything about her, Boris muses. At the end of the episode, Ellen's sister Rike shows up and wants to stay for the time being
Review
The individual episodes of the series are intended to address political and social problems. For example, German Angst focuses on juvenile delinquency and right-wing extremism based on the former serial offender Mehmet . Ulrike Kriener said in an interview that she found such current aspects in crime novels to be good. "Topics that need time and space to be dealt with in a television game are now only dealt with in crime novels," she criticized and continued that the series "not only shows the general murder around the corner", but "ventures into gray areas". “The old town of Regensburg with its medieval romantic ambience” is “in contrast to the brutality, injustice and tragedies” that play out in the films, said Anke Engelke, who joined the series as the commissioner's sister from the sixth episode onwards. She hadn't read the scripts beforehand, but agreed solely because of Ulrike Kriener and was sure that she would get a good role in the series.
criticism
TV Spielfilm judged: “Thomas Berger transforms Friedrich Ani's novel into a subtle film about responsibility, political opinion and state procedures. The only drawback: the somewhat too objective dialogues. […] Fear? In front of the stranger? Hatred of foreigners hits it !! "
Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv was of the opinion that this episode was "a tough one". Thomas Berger made "a straight, on the one hand very German, on the other hand very American crime thriller" out of it. It went on to say: “This film is about personal responsibility and a political position that every individual has to make, including every police officer. It's a bit German, a bit edgy, but precisely for that reason it is also very Lucas-like, the way the topic is discussed here. In contrast, the look, the density of the plot, the speed, the dramatic twists and the suggestive narrative style of 'German Angst' have something American about them. "
Kino.de found that the film would be interesting because "because the law enforcement officials [have] to show their colors: Not only clandestinely, but ultimately they also plead quite openly for deportation". It was also said that the film "turned out to be quite artistic in places for a Saturday thriller". The framework story was also praised: “After the death of her father, the inspector has to take care of her apparently slightly weird sister (Anke Engelke); that promises potential for further films. "
Web links
- German fear in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Commissioner Lucas at fernsehserien.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Commissioner Lucas - German fear at crew-united.com
- ↑ Start dates for Commissioner Lucas - German fear . In: IMDb.de. Retrieved November 5, 2016 .
- ↑ Commissioner Lucas episodes 1-6 on DVD
- ↑ Commissioner Lucas: German Angst In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , September 29, 2007. Retrieved November 11, 2016.
- ↑ Commissioner Lucas - German Angst , In: TV Spielfilm (with 24 pictures of the film), accessed on November 11, 2016.
- ↑ Rainer Tittelbach : Series "Commissioner Lucas - German Angst" - Kriener, Bleibtreu, Thomas Berger, Friedrich Ani. Show your colors politically at tittelbach.tv , accessed on November 11, 2016.
- ↑ tpg: Commissioner Lucas: German Angst: TV crime thriller about xenophobia based on the novel by Friedrich Ani. at kino.de, accessed on November 11, 2016.
