Commissioner Lucas - Lovergirl

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Episode in the series Commissioner Lucas
Original title Lover girl
Country of production Germany
original language German
length 89 minutes
classification Episode 18 ( List )
First broadcast April 20, 2013 on ZDF
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Director Stefan Kornatz
script Martina Mouchot
production Olga movie
music Stefan Will
camera Martin Farkas
cut Kai Schröter
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Lovergirl is a ZDF film that is part of the series Kommissarin Lucas . Stefan Kornatz directed the television film that was broadcast in 2013. For Ellen Lucas ( Ulrike Kriener ), her eighteenth case is about human trafficking and forced prostitution . The main guest stars in this episode are Roeland Wiesnekker , Irina Potapenko and Heiner Hardt , Thomas Loibl , Joachim Nimtz and Michael Kranz .

action

Chief Detective Boris Noethen is asked for help by phone from Claudia Benner, an old friend. She indicates that it is about a young woman, that is all she wants to say on the phone for now. The conversation breaks off abruptly, only the sounds of a fight can be heard. Noethen drives with Chief Detective Ellen Lucas to a trailer on the outskirts, in which they only find Benner dead, she has been stabbed. Obviously she was engaged in prostitution in the mobile home . They don't meet the said young woman there, but they do meet a customer named Gernot Ketterer, who allegedly left his jacket in the trailer. To the surprise of the officers, officers from the BKA suddenly appear at the crime scene. Noethen tries to clarify who is responsible here.

When Kai Benner learns of his mother's death, he seems particularly concerned that Ketterer, who had fired him, was still a customer of his mother. Lucas' investigation first leads to Viktor Gheorghi, whom Benner had last called on her cell phone. It turns out he was in a car accident near the trailer at the same time the call came out. However, Gheorghi, who works as a security guard for a nearby brothel , claims to know neither Claudia nor the young woman who asked for help. However, Lucas is sure that he is lying and clings to Gheorghi's heels. Further investigations reveal that Gheorghi was not alone when the accident happened, but accompanied by a young woman who ran away. Obviously it was the woman who was in Claudia's caravan.

Lucas and her team are now doing everything they can to find the young woman. After a raid in the brothel and a special assignment by her assistant Tom Brauer, the commissioner is certain that a women's trafficking ring there is illegally forcing Eastern European women into prostitution. It is unclear what Claudia Benner had to do with it. Did she have any contact with the forced prostitutes? It is of little help to Lucas and her team that the colleagues from the BKA keep hindering their investigations. When Viktor Gheorghi reveals himself as an undercover BKA investigator, the matter becomes even more tricky.

Lucas learns from Gheorghis Horst Metzger, the other party in the accident, that the young woman who ran away is called Alina. When Lucas takes a stand because the BKA is walling up, she forces a conversation with Jensen, in which she learns that Alina was one of the few who wanted to testify against Ilona Ganske, who drives girls from Romania into forced prostitution on a large scale. She had taken confidence in the undercover Viktor Gheorghis. Before she could be brought to safety, the accident occurred in which Alina had fled. Ganske think Alina is dead. Lucas wants to know whether Alina should also testify in the unexplained story with Catrinel Popescu, which Jensen denies. Wallner, whom Lucas doesn't trust, is also present during the conversation. Shortly thereafter, the inspector received a call in which Alina desperately pleaded for help, saying that her sister's murderer was after her. Lucas manages to get Alina to safety. She testifies that this German, by which she means Wallner, shot her little sister. Alina admits that she killed Claudia Benner because she needed the money for her further escape. Alina wants to continue to testify against Ilona Ganske, but wants to see her mother first.

In Bucharest, Ganske and her accomplices are arrested while welcoming new girls who are needed for the brothels and who are lured to Germany under false pretenses. Noethen assures Lucas that Jensen and Wallner would have to answer for their actions.

Production, publication

Lovergirl was filmed from October 1st to December 7th, 2012 in Munich and Regensburg and premiered on April 20th, 2013 in prime time on ZDF .

reception

Audience rating

When it was first broadcast, the film was seen by 6.12 million viewers and achieved a market share of 20.2 percent.

criticism

TV Spielfilm drew the conclusion: "Exciting and subtle as always"

For Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv , the 18th case of Commissioner Lucas was "an unspectacular film", in which it was "once again about human trafficking and forced prostitution". The critic went on to write: “The two newcomers (including Anna Brüggemann) are introduced to the Regensburg criminal investigation team quite casually, and accordingly they remain inconspicuous. It has the impression that ZDF has tweaked the concept a little: From the chic SOKO open-plan area with a cool US look, it is now in a typical provincial police station. It's more believable than before, but not nearly as sexy! ”'Lovergirl' draws“ the audience into the story for the first few minutes, which can be grasped in an associative and sensual way: human trafficking, threats, murder ”. Subsequently, however, the investigations of the inspectors fell “behind what the viewer already knew”.

For the critic Tilmann P. Gangloff , Victor Gheorghi, "the man for the rough in the Syndiakt", was the "key figure of the film". Gangloff wrote: “Roeland Wiesnekker has by far the most interesting role in the film and embodies this seemingly cold-blooded gangster with all his class. The rest of the story is only a diversionary maneuver anyway. ”In conclusion, he concluded:“ Apart from the unnecessary excursions into private life, Stefan Kornatz staged the crime thriller remarkably densely. The script and direction are also characterized by great care, especially in the details; Again and again you come across little things that do not seem important at first, but add to the complexity of the thriller, which is well worth seeing. "

Julian Miller fromquotemeter.de, on the other hand, was of the opinion that the series had "gone steeply downhill in terms of narrative density" and said: "Will the new episode achieve the dramaturgical turnaround?" His answer was: " 'Lovergirl' may be a little more convincing compared to the last episodes of 'Inspector Lucas' - but the series seems to have passed its best times. ”He criticized the fact that the subplot with landlord and sister“ now seems to be clearly told out ” and the “socially relevant topics on the second level” have already been “told in a more complex and, whenever possible, a touch less compromise”. He noted positively that Ulrike Kriener and Michael Roll would “still convince”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Start dates for Inspector Lucas - Lovergirl . In: IMDb.de. Retrieved November 25, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Commissioner Lucas - Lovergirl adS crew-united.com
  3. ↑ a b Rainer Tittelbach : Series "Kommissarin Lucas - Lovergirl". Kriener, Wiesnekker, Roll, Mouchot, Kornatz. What is the BKA doing in Regensburg? adS tittelbach.tv . Retrieved September 3, 2017.
  4. ^ Commissioner Lucas - Lovergirl , In: TV Spielfilm (with 27 pictures from the film). Retrieved September 3, 2017.
  5. ^ Tilmann P. Gangloff : TV tip: " Inspector Lucas: Lovergirl" adS evangelisch.de, July 30, 2016. Accessed September 3, 2017.
  6. ↑ Julian Miller: Commissioner Lucas: Lovergirl adS quotenmeter.de, April 19, 2013. Accessed September 3, 2017.