Beyond the day

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Movie
Original title Beyond the day
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2015
length 90 minutes
Rod
Director Martin Enlen
script Edda Leesch
production Hessian radio
music Dieter Schleip
camera Philipp Timme
cut Stefan Kraushaar
occupation

Beyond the day is a film drama by director Martin Enlen from 2015 . The main roles are played by Horst Sachtleben as the retired psychotherapist Professor Dr. Walter Singer and Katja Studt as taxi driver Greta Tullner, who accompanies the old man for a whole day.

The film was awarded the Audience Award 2015 at the Festival of German Films and was broadcast on television for the first time on September 9, 2015 during prime time as part of the ARD series Filmmittwoch im Erste .

action

The 41-year-old misanthropic Greta Tullner is a taxi driver and after a strenuous night shift and frustrated from her job, she really only wants to go to bed when the 83-year-old day passenger Prof. Dr. Walter Singer is forced on. The doctor of psychiatry , specializing in trauma and depression , appears to be confident, cheerful and charming. For reasons only known to him, he wants to turn the day into a perfect one and has therefore created an exact process for processing things that are important to him, which he wants to cope with with the help of a taxi. Greta Tullner just wants to get rid of the passenger, who is clearly getting on her nerves, but reluctantly drives him to the Frankfurt Sehnsuchtsbrücke Eiserner Steg in the hope of being able to drop him off somewhere afterwards. After Singer mourned his late wife Viola there, whom he had once met on this bridge, he and Greta discover that they are both inclined to Homer and that they speak ancient Greek and Latin . Then Greta drives the old man to a bank, where he withdraws the money he has invested and she has to find out that her account is empty and her overdraft facility is hopelessly overdrawn. Despite her persistent fatigue, Greta decides to drive the passenger until noon in order to secure the additional 100 € for the journey. She then plans to visit her demented mother in the nursing home.

So she first goes with Singer to his first fiancé Francesca and a house in which he has lived for over 30 years. While Walter Singer is gradually telling her his life story, he buys a tailor-made white suit and a beautiful bouquet of flowers for her. Greta then explains to him that from her point of view cut flowers represent an avoidable burden on the environment and introduces him to her interest in climate research .

Singer, as the former head physician, realizes, however, in the course of the increasingly intense discussions that Greta suffers from depression, for which she is taking medication, but the basic evil of her dissatisfaction lies in the fact that she is looking for the meaning of her life . Singer carefully tries to treat Greta, to encourage her and to make it clear to her that life is not over for her and that, in contrast to him, she is still “in the middle of life”. The formerly busy head physician still carries feelings of guilt around with him because he has lost his own depressed and lovesick 23-year-old daughter Nora to suicide , which still worries him. He sees something like a daughter in Greta and doesn't want her to end up like his daughter Nora. Greta, however, vehemently defends himself against his therapy, for Singer another sign of a typical phenomenon of depressed people, whereupon she abandons him as a result of an argument in the middle of the country road. In a church in an Upper Hessian village from Walter's childhood, the two meet again, reconcile and then enjoy life dancing. Singer has since thrown his daily schedule overboard because the time with Greta is more important to him.

Full of vigor, Singer takes Greta to a science party organized by Heidi Krüger, whom he knows. Here Greta not only finds her way back to her beauty, which she lost as a result of her depression, Singer also succeeds in influencing her to do professionally what makes her happy and which she enjoys. Greta now sees her way ahead of her, she will resume her aborted study of meteorology , which is the basis of her interest in climate research. At the party, however, Greta is confronted for the first time with the fact that Singer suffers from a brain tumor and is terminally ill, and the time for her final farewell is near. This is the moment when both of them swap roles: Greta is now the self-confident one who is interested in the fate of the other and encourages him not to run away, but to enjoy every day, just as Singer taught her to do it recently. Singer, however, does not want to know anything about it, which is also largely due to the feelings of guilt towards his daughter, and retires to a train station. Finally, however, he tells Greta about Nora while both lying on the meadow count the shooting stars .

Immediately after the return trip and saying goodbye, Greta quits her job and shortly afterwards receives a package with the ancient cowhide leather briefcase as the last greeting, which contains Singer's entire savings balance with the bank plus a personal letter in which Walter describes that he does Time when Greta will read his letter and no longer need the briefcase and its contents. After Walter Singer's lines, Greta's gaze is longingly, expectant and permeated with wistful feelings of happiness in the sky towards Walter, with whom she feels connected “beyond the day”.

Production, publication

Filming began on August 6, 2014 and ended on September 11 of the same year. The film was shot in Frankfurt am Main as well as the immediate and wider area. Frank Prümmer was responsible for the production design , Majid Sarafi for the sound. Dominik Diers was in charge of the film production.

Beyond the day was shown for the first time on June 23, 2015 at the Ludwigshafen Festival of German Films and received the audience award.

Soundtrack

The music in "Beyond the Day" is as diverse as Walter's phases in life are:

reception

criticism

The Frankfurter Neue Presse summarized that the film deserved the audience award of the film festival. The star reflects in an article that a particular strength of the film lies in showing something truly great, with a high degree of human affection.

The journalist Thomas Gehringer was full of praise at tittelbach.tv for the “melodramatic road movie, which is rich in strokes of fate to be dealt with and sometimes on the verge of kitsch”. He went on to write: “The production, however, retains its lightness and warmly celebrates the joy of life. Here people philosophize about life in clever, humorous dialogues. Sachtleben plays adorable, the camera revels in Upper Hessian motifs, and the diverse music is convincing. "Gehringer spoke of a" sad and beautiful feel-good film that is undoubtedly quite overloaded with problems and strokes of fate, but with a pinch of humor, the adorable game of the 1930s Sachtleben and the varied music (jazz, pop, classical) would give the necessary lightness.

Audience rating

When it was first broadcast, the film was seen by 4.88 million viewers, resulting in a market share of 17.1 percent.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin Enlen: Beyond the day. Audience Award 2015. In: Festival of German Films. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on September 13, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Beyond the day. In: ARD. Archived from the original on August 15, 2015 ; accessed on September 13, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Beyond the day. In: filmportal.de. Retrieved September 13, 2015 .
  4. ↑ “Beyond the Day”: The Last Journey . TV review. In: Frankfurter Neue Presse. September 10, 2015, accessed September 13, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Beyond the day - TV. In: Stern. September 9, 2015, accessed September 13, 2015 .
  6. ↑ a b Thomas Gehringer: TV film "Beyond the day" - Horst Sachtleben, Katja Studt, Leesch, Enlen. A sky full of falling stars adS tittelbach.tv. Retrieved December 29, 2017.