Commissioner Lucas - chain reaction

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Episode in the series Commissioner Lucas
Original title Chain reaction
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Olga movie
length 90 minutes
classification Episode 20 ( list )
German-language
first broadcast		 May 10, 2014 on ZDF
Rod
Director Tim Trageser
script Johannes Betz
production Molly von Fürstenberg
Harald Kügler
music Andreas Weidinger
camera Eckhard Jansen
cut Ueli Christians
occupation

Chain reaction is a ZDF film that is part of the series Kommissarin Lucas . Tim Trageser directed the 2014 television film. For Ellen Lucas ( Ulrike Kriener ), her twentieth case is about a bank robbery related to drugs and other crimes. The main guest stars of this episode are Peter Schneider , Alexandra Finder , Julian Olivi and Tom Lass .

action

While Max Kirchhoff, the landlord of Detective Chief Inspector Ellen Lucas, is working in his garage, his neighbor's garage explodes right next to him. Lucas and her team find the body of the food chemist Egon Potthast and a small crystal meth laboratory, as well as a large amount of cash that has been proven to come from a bank robbery. The tenant of the garage, Robert Kienle, has disappeared, as has his son Moritz. After a blood-smeared backpack is found in the forest that verifiably belongs to Moritz, the police force the search for the boy and set up a special commission.

Lucas and her team are still investigating the Potthast case. According to a forensic medical examination, the man was already dead when the explosion occurred, which was caused by the chemical spontaneous combustion. For the investigators it is clear that Robert Kienle must have run the illegal drug kitchen together with the victim. It is possible that they both got into an argument, which ultimately led to the accident. The fact that Kienle obviously needs more money than the drug business has thrown off and that he has therefore committed two bank robberies in quick succession allows the conclusion that he is being blackmailed and that someone kidnapped his son Moritz. Sophie Kienle, Moritz's mother, is very worried about her son, but cannot help explain anything, as she is currently being treated in an addiction clinic. Nevertheless, the investigators discover that the Czech drug dealer is probably holding Petr Moritz Kienle prisoner and extorting ransom from his father. After handing over part of the sum demanded by Petr, Kienle gets stuck in the forest and is subsequently arrested by the police. He desperately tries to avoid arrest and brings the police inspector Lucas who is persecuting him under his control. After a roadblock ruined his goal of saving Moritz, Commissioner Kienle was persuaded to give up. She promises him to help Moritz in return. During interrogation, he confesses that he not only supplied the crystal meth to his main customer Petr, but also tried to sell it directly to his Vietnamese customer Thien. After Petr found out, he broke into Kienle's apartment and apparently kidnapped Moritz to punish Kienle. Lucas has Thien arrested in order to get Petr through him. But meanwhile there are doubts whether Moritz was really kidnapped by Petr. Evidence suggests that the boy may just have run away and is hiding. One of these traces leads to a gravel works, where Moritz is actually found.

Moritz explains to the police that he wanted to protect his family. He knew about the drug kitchen in his father's garage and had gone there to persuade Egon Potthast to stop making drugs. After all, his mother was already in a clinic because of that and he didn't want to lose his father too. In the argument about it he pushed Potthast, who then fell with his head against the edge of the table and knocked over the chemicals in the process. When the man stopped moving, he ran away.

Until Sophie Kienle is released from the addiction clinic, Moritz has to go to a foster family, as his father has to answer for his offenses in court and is kept in custody.

Production, publication

Chain reaction was filmed in Munich and premiered on May 10, 2014 in prime time on ZDF .

reception

Audience rating

The television film Kommissarin Lucas - Kettenreaktion reached an average of 6.16 million viewers when it was first broadcast on ZDF on May 10, 2014, which corresponds to 20.5 percent of the market share in Germany.

criticism

Thomas Gehringer from Tittelbach.tv said: “A breath of 'Breaking Bad' blows through Regensburg: In Tim Trageser's 'Chain Reaction' from the 'Inspector Lucas' series, a crystal meth kitchen is blown up, a man dies and another raids banks because his son has disappeared. This desperate solo effort sets the pace. High tempo, tension, a cross-border plot, but also a number of 'instructive' dialogues & all too striking statements. "

In Quotenmeter.de Sidney Schering criticized: "Thanks to a clear structure and a constantly increasing tension works [...] this thriller [...] [good and shows] how hard chemical drugs can put a whole series of events in motion that in a former family idyll to destroy. […] [But] the illustration of these connections, especially in the middle part, [have a very moralizing effect and with the raised index finger. "Only" towards the end [is] turned more on the tension screw "so that" this bad aftertaste is largely lost ". “The actors of the decaying Kienle family [play] their roles so well that even individual lines of thick dialogue appear realistic. The secret star of this ZDF crime thriller is therefore Peter Schneider as an overwhelmed father who is exploited by the drug mafia. Despair, anger, criminal energy and honest love for his family: The mime combines all of this into a round, difficult to predict, but always believable character. "

The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm rated: "A bit uneven, but also exciting, even touching."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Start dates for Commissioner Lucas - chain reaction . In: IMDb.de. Retrieved November 25, 2016 .
  2. ↑ a b Thomas Gehringer: Kriener, Brüggemann, Peter Schneider, Betz, Trageser. Crystal Meth at Tittelbach.tv , accessed in May 2018.
  3. ↑ Komissarin Lucas - chain reaction in Quotenmeter.de , accessed in May 2018th
  4. ↑ Commissioner Lucas - chain reaction retrieved from TV Spielfilm on November 25, 2016.