Commissioner Lucas - Polly

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Episode in the series Commissioner Lucas
Original title Polly
Country of production Germany
original language German
length 88 minutes
classification Episode 28 ( List )
First broadcast April 6, 2019 on ZDF
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Director Nils Willbrandt
script Markus Ziegler ,
Stefan Dähnert
production Harald Kügler ,
Arbia-Magdalena Said
music Ralf Hilden Beutel ,
Steve B-Zet
camera Jens Harant
cut Benjamin Kaubisch
occupation

Polly is a ZDF film that is part of the series Kommissarin Lucas . Nils Willbrandt directed the television film, which aired in 2019. Her 28th case in Regensburg leads detective chief inspector Ellen Lucas ( Ulrike Kriener ) and her team to a home for girls who are difficult to educate, where young Monika, who was found dead in the branches of a tree, lived. The main guest stars of this episode are Marie Bloching in the title role, Luise von Finckh , Frederic Linkemann , Jule Ronstedt and Arnd Klawitter .

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Chief Inspector Ellen Lucas and her team have to explain how it came about that the young Monika Kindler was found dead in the branches of a tree, twelve meters above the ground. For Lucas, the whole thing is like a funeral ceremony. As it turns out, Monika had disappeared from Aschenbachhof, a home for difficult-to-educate girls, a few months earlier. During her investigation there, Lucas noticed Polly, who had shared a room with Moni. Polly is so disturbed by the news of her friend's death that she cuts her wrists. Lucas, who suspects that something is wrong with the young girl, finds Polly just in time and is able to prevent worse.

Further investigations reveal that the girls have repeatedly disappeared from the home to have fun in the nearby village. When Lucas comes home that evening, she finds Polly, who had stolen her key from her jacket, in her apartment. Although the commissioner knows she should keep her distance, she allows Polly to stay with her for the night.

Lucas' employees Tom Brauer and Judith Marlow have since found out that Matthieu Egginger, a young man from the village, had contact with Moni and Polly and other girls from the home. He runs a sex chat channel where the girls earned a little money, which Egginger primarily benefited from.

Moni was involved in an "intensive educational project" in the Czech Republic from August to November, as Lucas finds out, without really being able to imagine anything about it. Polly either cannot or does not want to tell her about it. Matthieu Egginger reports to Lucas and Brauer that he and Moni were in love with each other and wanted to go away together. They had an appointment on the day Moni disappeared without a trace. But Moni did not appear. Polly tells Lucas, however, that Moni was only interested in Egginger's money.

Forensic doctor Pauli's investigations have shown that the numerous broken fingers that Moni found were inflicted on her about nine months ago. At that time Moni was part of the intensive educational program in Tudice in the Czech Republic. The home manager Frieda Schreiber makes a statement with Lucas. She chose the girls for the project in the Czech Republic. They were girls who had no relatives and were therefore not missed. The girls were largely left to their own devices there, as there were not enough trained staff. An enormous amount of money could be saved for each girl, since the costs in the Czech Republic were not even a third of the costs that went to the Aschenbachhof for the girls. Lucas wants to know why Schreiber took part. She thinks that her superior Christian Kroiss gave her a great opportunity with the management of the home and that everything remained within limits at first. But then there were more and more girls whom she should have told him. You also falsified the accounting documents in this regard. Moni's broken fingers were due to the fact that the abandoned girls turned violent videos and put them on the net. Often the girls from Aschenbachhof were their victims.

In the end it turns out that Polly has interpreted far too much into the close friendship with Moni. When she realized that Moni wanted to get away with Matthieu Egginger and did not share their common dreams, she suffocated her friend, who was initially sleeping and then fiercely resisting, with a pillow. Hannes Lenz, an employee of the home and grew up in one, then helped her to get Moni's body up the tree, where she was a little closer to heaven. Max wants to know what is going to happen to Polly now, Lucas says she must grow up in prison.

Production notes

Polly , a production by Olga Film GmbH, was filmed from October 5, 2017 to December 6, 2017 in Regensburg , Munich and the surrounding area. The first broadcast of the film was on April 6, 2019 on ZDF .

criticism

The critic Tilmann P. Gangloff rated the film for evangelisch.de . Polly didn't have much in common with classic crime stories, Gangloff explained, the script was primarily about a cautious rapprochement between Polly and the commissioner. The fact that 'Polly' is still “not a dreary social drama” is mainly due to “the three main actresses”. Luise von Finckh has the "supposedly easiest role, because she appears as a guest star only in short interludes", [...] but develops "an impressive presence". Of course, "Marie Bloching's introverted game played a big part in the effect of the film", especially since she "seems to manage effortlessly to assert herself next to a professional like Ulrike Kriener". Gangloff concluded that Polly is the reason why this episode “stands out from all other contributions in the series”: because the otherwise “cool and distant Commissioner Lucas is much more concerned” than “in other cases”.

The critic Volker Bergmeister , who rated the film for tittelbach.tv , also found words of praise for the episode Polly , gave 4.5 out of 6 possible stars and drew the conclusion: “ 'Commissioner Lucas - Polly' , the 28th episode in the series , is an intensely atmospheric crime thriller that does not require a lot of action or twisting, is close to the characters and has its strongest moments in the scenes between Lucas and the young Polly. Since the authors lay enough wrong tracks on the way to the resolution, the tension remains for a long time, even if one can guess at an early stage where the story is going. The ZDF crime series keeps its good level. "

The evaluation of Martin Seng on the sitequotemeter.de certified the film a "very pleasant narrative speed". Commissioner Ellen Lucas is, "as in most of her cases, to look at acting technically strong". “Optically”, the film is “pleasantly far removed from the usual television film optics” and can “convince with sharp and clearly contrasted images”. In this episode, Ulrike Kriener shows "once again her skills as a torn policewoman". Likewise, “the case with its location and the other actors are convincing. Exciting and yet realistic, even if you don't feel too good after the final. 'Polly' is one of “the investigator's strongest cases to date”.

The t-online.de site is of the opinion that the authors Markus Ziegler and Stefan Dähnert and the director Nils Willbrandt staged a “sensitive drama” that “gets under your skin”. As “hopeless as it may seem in places”, the “insights into spiritual abysses” are “exciting and impressive”. This also applies to the "otherwise rather brittle acting Commissioner from Regensburg, who shows quite open emotions here" - which also brings her "into trouble". The film raises - "until the surprising end - many questions, especially the one about mental neglect and lack of due diligence, not to mention missing or rejected love".

In WAZ am Sonntag, Wolfgang Platzeck writes that the new case is “best [eche] all along the line”. In the 27 cases so far from Lucas and her team, none of the stories follow “the current crime routine” and this time too, the “correspondingly high expectations are met”. The episode 'Polly' is "a new high point in the series". It goes on to say: “In their calm narrative flow, the script and direction masterfully bring together the numerous strands without forcibly grafting a fundamental systemic criticism onto the fictional story.” This is “not only extremely exciting, but also downright shocking for every empathetic viewer. All the more because the film is being carried by two wonderful actresses. "The interaction between Ulrike Kriener and Marie Bloching as stubborn, traumatized Polly" is "of an intensity that is seldom seen on screen".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Commissioner Lucas - Polly at crew united . Retrieved April 6, 2019.
  2. ↑ Commissioner Lucas XXVIII Polly see page olgafilm.de
  3. ^ Tilmann P. Gangloff : Commissioner Lucas: Polly see evangelisch.de. Retrieved April 6, 2019.
  4. ↑ Volker Bergmeister : Series "Commissioner Lucas - Polly". Kriener, Bloching, Myhr, Richter, Klawitter, Ronstedt, Willbrandt: Crime social drama see page tittelbach.tv
  5. ↑ Martin Seng: Commissioner Lucas: Polly see page quotenmeter.de. Retrieved April 6, 2019.
  6. ^ Commissioner Lucas: Polly see page t-online.de, April 6, 2019. Accessed April 6, 2019.
  7. ↑ Wolfgang Platzeck: "Commissioner Lucas": New case captivates all along the line In: WAZ on Sunday, April 6, 2019. Retrieved on April 6, 2019.