Commissioner Lucas - trust to the end

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Episode in the series Commissioner Lucas
Original title Trust to the end
Country of production Germany
original language German
length 90 minutes
classification Episode 3
First broadcast October 30, 2004 on ZDF
Rod
Director Thomas Berger
production Molly von Fürstenberg ,
Harry Kügler
music Dieter Schleip
camera Torsten Breuer
cut Monika Abspacher
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
Commissioner Lucas - Past Sins

Successor  →
Commissioner Lucas - The interrogation

Trust to the Last is a ZDF film that is part of the series Kommissarin Lucas . As with the first two episodes, Thomas Berger again directed the television film, which was broadcast in 2004. In her third case in Regensburg, Commissioner Lucas ( Ulrike Kriener ) has to investigate the violent death of an au pair girl from Serbia. In addition to Miroslav Nemec , Anneke Kim Sarnau and Felix Eitner , Katharina Müller-Elmau and Miranda Leonhardt are the main guest stars of this episode.

action

The young Serbian Biljana Savic is rescued dead from the Danube. You can find 3000 euros on her. Her corpse shows numerous scars that suggest a violent death. In addition, numerous scars indicate serious abuse from the past. Chief Detective Ellen Lucas starts the investigation and finds out that Savic and her friend Milica Stojanovic came to Germany from Serbia via an au pair agency. The Schwarz couple, whose son Biljana was supposed to look after, stated that they should have parted with the young woman a long time ago, because she simply showed no interest in her job and it was probably only about living in Germany . But since Biljana had already been through a lot, they felt sorry for her.

Lucas believes that Milica is the key to Biljana Savic's death. It reappears sporadically and then disappears again without a trace. When the inspector is broken into, she suspects that it was Milica. In a conversation Anja Schwarz admits that she sometimes hit Biljana. Caring for her seriously ill mother was just too much for her and Biljana was of no help to her.

When the monk Danko Kovac, who made the acquaintance of Lucas in search of his sister who disappeared during the Bosnian war , visits the inspector, Milica, who they both meet in the basement, flees again in panic. Your bag is left behind. It is later stolen from Lucas' car after an attempt was made to run over the inspector.

In an interrogation, Anja Schwarz admits that she “helped” her mother to die, that Biljana knew about it and that she blackmailed her. Her husband Uli, who is interrogated separately from her at the same time, finally confesses that Biljana was not satisfied with the extorted € 3,000 and asked for more money. On the Danube there was then a violent argument between him and the young woman, in the course of which Biljana, who could not swim, slipped and fell into the Danube. He has to admit that he could have prevented her death as a lifeguard.

Shortly afterwards, Lucas receives a call from Danko Kovac, who has Milica in his power and wants a locker key that has been hidden in Lucas' apartment. He and Lucas meet on the Danube where he threatens the inspector with a weapon. Dramatic events lead to Kovac drowning and Milica barely escaping death by drowning. In the locker, the key of which the alleged monk wanted, was a note on which it was written in Serbian that the Croatian war criminal Kovac was hiding as a monk in a monastery.

production

Production notes, first broadcast

It is a production by Olga Film GmbH on behalf of ZDF. Filming began on April 19 and ended on June 29, 2004. The working title was: Commissioner Lucas - Letting Go . The film was shot in Regensburg and the surrounding area as well as in Munich and premiered on October 30, 2004 in prime time on ZDF .

DVD

The first six episodes of the series were published on October 8, 2010 by Edel Germany GmbH on DVD, with the fourth episode Das Verhör no longer being part of the six episodes published in Box 1 for licensing reasons.

Private matters of the commissioners

Ellen Lucas finds it difficult to accept that her husband Paul no longer has any memories of their past together. However, he did remember the name of his first wife Eva, who was then notified. Paul thinks he is still married to Eva. After suffering cardiac arrest, Paul Lucas falls irrevocably into a coma and is only kept alive by machines. Lucas struggles to give her consent to turn off the equipment.

Inspector Martin Schiff's wife asks him to take care of their daughter Stephanie for a few days, because she has to be clear about something. The couple live separately, Schiff has a relationship with his colleague Tina Burckhard.

criticism

The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm pointed their thumbs to the side and found: "Euthanasia, the Bosnian conflict and abuse - the crime thriller is overloaded." The conclusion was: "A lot of social conscience, too little tension".

Prisma pointed out that in the “gripping story”, Thomas Berger this time placed the focus on the recent European past and the atrocities in the Serbian-Croatian war.

Awards

  • 2004: Golden gong for Ulrike Kriener
  • 2005: Rencontres Internationales de Télévision: Palmarès in Reims, award for Ulrike Kriener in the category "Best Actress"
  • 2005: Bavarian television award to Ulrike Kriener for her acting performance as Inspector Lucas in the episodes Past Sins and Trust to the end

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Commissioner Lucas - Trust to the end see crew-united.com
  2. ↑ Commissioner Lucas DVD box ZDF
  3. ↑ Commissioner Lucas Information on the DVD box. Retrieved November 4, 2018.
  4. ↑ Commissioner Lucas - trust to the end See tvspielfilm.de. Retrieved November 4, 2018.
  5. ↑ Commissioner Lucas - Past Sins see prisma.de. Retrieved November 4, 2018.
  6. ↑ International award for Ulrike Kriener and ZDF film "Kommissarin Lucas" sS presseportal.de
  7. ^ Commissioner Lucas - episodes 1–6 see krimi-forum.net