Murder in Ludwigslust
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| Original title | Murder in Ludwigslust |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2012 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Kai Wessel |
| script | Thomas Kirchner |
| production | Benjamin Benedict |
| music | Ralf Wienrich |
| camera | Judith Kaufmann |
| cut | Tina Friday |
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Mord in Ludwigslust is a German TV film by Kai Wessel with Anja Kling and Mark Waschke from 2012.
action
A woman's corpse is found near the castle in Ludwigslust , Mecklenburg . The victim is Lulu, the wife of the most important building contractor in the region, Udo Schuster. He had expected her the night before at an important business lunch. Since she did not appear, he raged and demolished the furnishings of his villa. The police are now temporarily arresting him. Sophia Eichstätt, an analyst at LKA Kiel, who is currently working on a computer program that compares Germany-wide murder cases for parallels, connects the case in Ludwigslust with a previously unexplained series of murders in which the victims like Lulu are strangled and then in an artistic pose by the perpetrator were filed. When Eichstätt arrives on site, she meets Mark Condor, the responsible criminal inspector at the Schwerin LKA. She had a relationship with him two years ago that almost broke their marriage. Condor also had an affair with the murder victim. He had slept with her the night before Lulu died.
When the police find traces of semen on Lulu's body, Condor comes under pressure. When confronted by Eichstätt, he tells her that he was friends with Lulu, Udo and the photographer Ben Martin shortly after the reunification. Eichstätt and Condor then visit Ben Martin in his photo studio, where Eichstätt Ben's preference for morbid photos is noticeable. Then they question Udo in his villa. There the two investigators also meet Udo's sister Rebecca, a doctor. Rebecca had once saved Lulu's life after attempting suicide. When she learned that Lulu's father was the Russian officer Vladimir Lukin, who raped Lulu's now deceased mother, Rebecca decided to take care of Lulu.
Meanwhile, Lulu's car is found. The officers found messages from Udo and Rebecca that had arrived shortly before Lulu's death on the mailbox of their cell phones. The officers now suspect that Lulu knew her murderer and therefore stopped her car on a country road at night. Eichstätt learns from Chief Detective Hilmar Hopf that Udo Schuster has built up his construction company with the help of the trust and the acquisition of Russian barracks and is now also doing business with natural gas. While Udo and Rebecca meet in the evening with Kostja Lukin, who is Lulu's grandfather and also Udo's most important business partner, Eichstätt discovers that Ben is trying to blackmail Condor with photos that show Condor and Lulu making love. Since Condor cannot provide an alibi for the night of the murder, he is finally arrested. Eichstätt then returned to Kiel to attend a theater performance of her daughter. During the performance, an idea comes to her and she drives back to Ludwigslust.
Meanwhile, Rebecca visits Ben in his photo studio and accuses him of blackmailing Lulu with photos. Shortly afterwards, Udo, Lukin and his bodyguard also arrive in the studio. While Rebecca is deleting the photos on Ben's computer, Udo attacks Ben and accuses him of murdering his wife. However, the police are on hand and prevent worse. During the interrogation that followed, Ben said that Lulu and two other murdered women knew each other and that he photographed them together in erotic poses. When he, Lulu, Condor and Udo once spent a boozy evening together in a gravel pit, a car went off the road and crashed into the gravel pit. The drunk driver, a Russian officer, was Lulu's father and she then blew up the crashed car with a cigarette. However, her grandfather Lukin forgave her for the murder of his son and, after her marriage to Udo, helped build Udo's empire.
Eichstätt drives to Udo Schuster's villa, where Rebecca opens the door for her. While questioning Rebecca, her colleagues discover that Rebecca's last cell phone message to Lulu was transmitted through just a telephone pole. Rebecca tells Eichstätt that Lulu always took everything she wanted, regardless of whether it was a man or a woman. Udo and herself had suffered from it and she was glad that it was finally over. When she mentions a friend Lulus to Eichstätt, Eichstätt goes into an adjoining room to make a phone call. On a table she sees a scarf, which Rebecca then picks up. She had given it to Lulu once. Eichstätt realizes that she is facing Lulu's murderess. She tries to escape, but Rebecca has locked all doors. Rebecca tries to strangle Eichstätt with the cloth. At the last moment she reaches for a high-heeled shoe and rams the heel into Rebecca's face. When Condor and Hilmar Hopf break open the door, Rebecca lies dead in front of Eichstätt, gasping for air. Eichstätt then lets Condor drive them home.
background
The shooting took place from November 9th to December 12th 2010 in Berlin and on location in Ludwigslust . On February 6, 2012, the thriller was first shown on television by ZDF . The audience rating was 6.13 million viewers, corresponding to a market share of 17.9%.
Reviews
The lexicon of international film saw Mord in Ludwigslust as a "[k] omplicatedly designed [n] (television) crime film that recalls the time of reunification and asks about the role of the Treuhand in the liquidation of 'nationally-owned' GDR operations ". Kerstin Teuber from the Hamburger Abendblatt said that the "only harmonic thing about this thriller [...] is the interaction between the actors". Murder in Ludwigslust is quite "demanding" and "gripping", but it makes "to the chagrin of the pretty place very little desire to get off at the ICE stop".
"The story is over-constructed, but the provincial thriller is still exciting," said TV Spielfilm . “As always, Anja Kling is good in the role of investigator,” said Prisma . Mark Waschke plays “just as skillfully as a colleague”.
Web links
- Murder in Ludwigslust in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Pictures of the film on tvspielfilm.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. tittelbach.tv
- ↑ Murder in Ludwigslust. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Kerstin Teuber: "Mord in Ludwigslust": Fatal affairs . In: Hamburger Abendblatt , February 6, 2012.
- ↑ cf. tvspielfilm.de
- ↑ cf. prisma.de