Commissioner Lucas - Greedy

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Episode in the series Commissioner Lucas
Original title Greedy
Country of production Germany
original language German
length 89 minutes
classification Episode 15 ( list )
First broadcast June 4, 2011 on ZDF
Rod
Director Ralf Huettner
script Stefan Holtz ,
Ralf Huettner,
Florian Iwersen
production Olga movie
music Stevie B-Zet ,
Ralf Hildenbag
camera Sten Mende
cut Kai Schröter
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
Commissioner Lucas - In the end there has to be luck

Successor  →
Commissioner Lucas - The Seven Faces of Fear

Greedy is a ZDF film that is part of the series Kommissarin Lucas . Ralf Huettner directed the television film broadcast in 2011. For Ellen Lucas ( Ulrike Kriener ), her fifteenth case is about a tax evader CD , which could have caused a murder, and about financial machinations accompanied by greed. The guest stars of this episode are Devid Striesow , Jeanette Hain and Herbert Knaup , Petra Kleinert and Christian Doermer .

action

Karoline Roth, who worked for the renowned Regensburg private bank Pfauenbach, is found dead from the Danube. Chief Detective Ellen Lucas starts the investigation and finds out that shortly before her death Roth had offered the Bavarian authorities a so-called tax evader CD for 2 million euros, and an amount of 1.8 million was agreed. According to her, this should contain data collected about German customers of a Swiss bank whose subsidiary is the private bank. Neither this CD nor the computer of the dead can be secured. Through the tax investigator involved in the case, Klaus Merdinger, Lucas learns that Roth had applied for witness protection.

An e-mail received by the tax investigation department leads first suspicions to Christian Wittbach, a colleague of Roth's. Further investigations weigh so heavily on Wittbach that he is arrested on suspicion of murdering his colleague. Wittbach claims to Merdinger that he could hand over the ominous CD to the tax investigators, but that he would have to be removed from custody. For Lucas, Wittbach and his family want to be included in the witness protection program. The Commissioner notices that political officials are intervening in the matter to a significant extent. Evidence suddenly emerges that exonerates Wittbach and leads to his release. Lucas is angry that her superior Boris Noethen does not appear more resolute to the tax investigator Klaus Merdinger and in this case takes an attitude that she does not like. The Commissioner is determined not to take her eyes off Wittbach. His wife Luise is also involved in their investigations. In passing, the inspector found out that Luise Wittbach had contacted the industrialist Karl-Heinz Schupp and his daughter Regine at her husband's request.

It is now clear that the murder did not take place where Roth's body was found. This is underpinned by the evidence of burglary marks both on the car and in the apartment of the dead. Neuhaus, the director of the private bank, is also the focus of the investigation. Did he really know nothing about the fact that data of his customers were to be offered for sale on a tax evasion CD? But there are also a number of unanswered questions about the Schupps, who are among the private bank's most important customers.

While Wittbach depends on the officials, because he does not even think of complying with the agreement made with Merdinger and making the CD available to the tax investigators, but prefers to sell it directly to the Schupps for 3 million euros, his wife Luise admits the crime Karoline Roth. She had discovered tickets in her husband's jacket pocket, which reinforced her long-held suspicion that he was cheating on her with Roth, and they both planned to break away together. When she entered the family's boat, where she assumed her husband was, and came across Karoline Roth, she believed she was killed. However, Roth was still alive, as the autopsy of the body had revealed. It was later thrown into the Danube by Wittbach. At the time, he did not know that his wife had inflicted the injuries on her. It remains in the dark whether he noticed that Roth was still alive when he "disposed of" them in the river.

production

Production notes, publication

Commissioner Lucas - Gierig , working title Commissioner Lucas - Gier , was filmed from November 8th to December 8th, 2010 in Munich and the surrounding area and in Regensburg and premiered on June 4th, 2011 in prime time on ZDF .

Private matters of the commissioners

Rike Lucas wants to open a fish restaurant in Regensburg and asks her sister for help with the financing, which she can not raise without a guarantee from the commissioner. Just as Ellen Lucas made the decision to help Rike, she had another completely different idea.

The colleague Julia Brandl, played by Inez Björg David , is on maternity leave in this episode .

reception

Audience rating

The film was seen by 3.9 million viewers when it was first broadcast, giving it a market share of 17%.

Reviews

The lexicon of international film criticized: "Well-versed (TV series) crime thriller about an explosive case of white-collar crime, which at the end of the day dares too little to do justice to the topic more convincingly."

TV Spielfilm was of the opinion: "Good, well-cast crime drama with Ulrike Kriener, Devid Striesow."

Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv gave 4½ out of 6 possible stars and said, “The 15th mission of the Regensburg Commissioner [was] a (human) exciting crime drama with a current political hook. Dramaturgically polished, coherently staged with a touch of US series style, outstandingly cast with Devid Striesow, Jeanette Hain & Herbert Knaup as 'guests' ”.

The film service spoke of a "routine (TV series) crime thriller about a controversial case of white-collar crime, which the bottom line is too little daring to do justice to the topic more convincingly".

Julian Miller fromquotemeter.de saw it very differently. His conclusion was: "You don't see such an outstanding thriller every day." Miller spoke of a "gripping plot with depth". It is "about greed, trust and the fragility of interpersonal relationships - and that without staging the topics penetratively". There was also talk of “an exemplary script with extraordinarily strong, because authentic, dialogues”. The “consistently excellent actors” were also praised, for example, tax investigator Klaus Merdinger was played “nuanced and aptly” by Herbert Knaup. Ulrike Kriener plays her role “again outstanding”, as does Devid Striesow “as the desperate banker whose actions are starting to get out of hand; up to Christian Doermer as the long-established entrepreneur who got involved in something that he can no longer see through ”.

Harald Suerland from the Westfälische Nachrichten particularly praised the “figure drawing”, which is one of the “greatest fascination” of the film: “Wonderful” are the “competence duels with the greasy-arrogant tax investigator Merdinger, whom Herbert Knaup portrayed with fervor” - “Actors like Devid Striesow and Jeanette Hain seemed to enjoy their roles as a murderous couple. What was transferred to the audience ”. The subplot with "Little Sister Rike" was displeasing and was again superfluous in his eyes.

Prisma, on the other hand, took the view that it was a "solidly staged, but not particularly exciting crime story". “Huettner, with his co-authors Florian Iwersen and Stefan Holtz, orientated himself on the scandal of tax evasion by German citizens over the Principality of Lichtenstein.” Conclusion: “In 'Gierig' - the title already indicates the motif - he links a large one planned tax evasion with a murder case, which Ulrike Kriener of course clears up in her star role. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Start dates for Commissioner Lucas - Greedy . In: IMDb.de. Retrieved October 25, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Commissioner Lucas - Greedy adS crew-united.com. Retrieved September 1, 2017.
  3. ↑ a b Rainer Tittelbach : Series "Kommissarin Lucas - Greedy". Kriener, Knaup, Striesow, Hain, Huettner; a tax CD & the strict Lucas adS tittelbach.tv . Retrieved September 1, 2017.
  4. ↑ Commissioner Lucas - Greedy. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  5. ↑ Commissioner Lucas - Greedy In: TV feature film (with 38 film images). Retrieved September 1, 2017.
  6. ↑ Commissioner Lucas - Greedy adS filmdienst.de. Retrieved September 1, 2017.
  7. ↑ Julian Miller: Commissioner Lucas: Greedy adS quotenmeter.de. Retrieved September 1, 2017.
  8. ↑ Harald Suerland: Commissioner Lucas: Greedy - Strong Figures In: Westfälische Nachrichten , June 5, 2011. Accessed on September 1, 2017.
  9. ↑ Commissioner Lucas adS prisma.de. Retrieved September 1, 2017.