If only love were so easy
| Movie | |
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| Original title | If only love were so easy |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2007 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Katinka Feistl |
| script | Barbara Iago |
| production | Studio Hamburg |
| music |
Eike Hosenfeld , Moritz Denis |
| camera | Hans Grimmelmann |
| cut | Dagmar Pohle |
| occupation | |
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If only love were so easy is a German love film by Katinka Feistl from 2007. The main roles were played by Yvonne Catterfeld and Stephan Luca .
action
Katrina Lang works at the counter at the small train station in Pinnow . The station is supposed to be closed and Katrina is standing on the tracks with a protest poster every day when the ICEs pass Pinnow without stopping. One day at a wedding she sees the attractive Moritz, who she thinks is the waitress. Both just look at each other for a long time before Moritz is called for a group photo with the bride and groom. Katrina believes she is an orphan after the death of her parents and is therefore surprised that one day a notary stands in front of her and says that she has inherited. Although she has never heard of the deceased Boris Berger, she is going to Hamburg with the estate administrator . Here she meets the Berger shipping family: widow Ingrid, her sister-in-law Lili and Ingrid's sons David and Moritz, whom Katrina had already seen at the wedding. It turns out that Boris bequeathed the 51% stake in the shipping company to the family members. A clause in the will grants his cousin Christian Lang 15% of the total package and, in the event of his death, Christian's closest relative - Katrina. She wants to turn down the inheritance, but this is prevented by an additional clause, according to which Katrina is neither allowed to sell nor give away the shares for one year. Ingrid, on the other hand, becomes suspicious: Christian went to the GDR to marry his great love. This led to the break between the cousins. Ingrid now suspects Katrina to be a cheater, or worse, a communist. She hires a private detective to investigate. Nevertheless, Katrina stayed with the Bergers for a while.
Moritz flirts with Katrina and goes on a trip with her. David also takes a liking to her, although he is engaged to his sandpit friend Annett, and takes her to the shipping company at her request. Some of the workers are on strike here and Katrina feels solidarity with them. She realizes that David has never personally dealt with the workers and speaks to the strikers. She also speaks to David's conscience. David too begins to mingle with the strikers under their influence and has to realize that most of them reject him and his leadership style. He starts thinking about Katrina's words. Out of gratitude, he gives her a ticket for a trip to New York on one of the shipping company's general cargo ships. To David's chagrin, Katrina spends the evening with the womanizer Moritz, even if he has no deeper interest in Katrina.
As a major shareholder, Katrina has to attend the board meeting prematurely scheduled due to the strike, where she opposes the shareholders' plan to lay off workers in order to modernize the shipping company. Instead, with David, she succeeds in making the strikers a compromise offer that they want to reconsider and later actually accept. A short time later, a charity festival organized by Ingrid takes place at the Bergers' premises. David has Katrina send a precious dress for it, but she suspects it was a present from Moritz. On a whim, Katrina proposes marriage to Katrina, which she refuses. She realizes that he has numerous love affairs among the guests and that the dress was not from him, but from David. She withdraws with David, who confesses his love to her. The confession becomes ineffective when David's fiancée Annett publicly announces the wedding to David at the ceremony. Meanwhile, Ingrid triumphs, as the private detective has given her the results of his research: Katrina was adopted by Christian, so she is not a blood relative, but the will requires her. Lili knew this long ago, but was silent and had also reassured Katrina when she told her about her true origins. Katrina is told to leave the Bergers' house the next day. By chance she finds an old document behind a picture frame that makes it clear that Boris Berger and Christian Lang once founded the shipping company together, that is, Christian actually granted 50% of the shares, which Boris kept secret during his lifetime. Katrina is appalled by Ingrid's machinations, but tears up the contract because she no longer wants to accept anything from the Bergers. Katrina returns to Pinnow, where the station has now been closed. She packs her things and boards the general cargo ship for New York. Meanwhile, David realizes how much he loves Katrina. He separates in friendship from Annett and hurries after Katrina on the freighter. He wants to travel to New York with her and they both end up kissing.
production
If only love were so easy was filmed from July to August 2007 under the working title Katrina - If only love were so easy in Hamburg and the surrounding area. Claudia Landolt created the costumes, Iris Trescher designed the film . The first broadcast of the film took place on October 30, 2007 on Sat.1 . 4.61 million viewers (14.5 percent market share) saw the film, with the film gaining a 16.7 percent market share among 14 to 49 year olds. The high audience rating was explained , among other things, by Catterfeld's separation from Wayne Carpendale, which was ongoing at the time, and the associated press coverage.
criticism
The film-dienst called If love were so easy, " an undemanding (television) comedy that tries, belatedly, to use the closure of the GDR border as a background for a family story and its widening." For TV Spielfilm , the love film was “Simply too undemanding”, even if it might please friends of Rosemunde Pilcher films . The TV movie described it as a "sugar-sweet, shallow fairy tale", whilequotemeter.de saw the film as "a single catastrophe from beginning to end", so the plot is "incredibly unimaginative and peppered with clichés."
Web links
- When love so simple would be ' in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cf. If only love were so easy on crew-united.com
- ↑ Primetime check: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 . quotenmeter.de, October 31, 2007.
- ↑ Thanks to PR: Very good ratings for Catterfeld-Film . quotenmeter.de, October 31, 2007.
- ↑ If only love were so easy. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ See tvspielfilm.de
- ↑ See tvmovie.de ( Memento of the original from August 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ The Critics: "If only love were so easy" . quotenmeter.de, October 27, 2007.
