All children need love
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| Original title | All children need love |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2000 |
| length | 86 minutes |
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| Director | Karsten Wichniarz |
| script | Christian Lang |
| production | Claudia Rittig |
| music | Joachim-Franz Bartzsch |
| camera | Stefan Motzek |
| cut | Ines Bluhm |
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All Children Need Love is a German feature film by Karsten Wichniarz from the year 2000. The Christmas drama is about a private children's home that is to be closed before Christmas Eve . Witta Pohl plays the caring director of the home, Ulrich Pleitgen , Heinrich Schafmeister and Günter Kütemeyer are in leading roles.
The film had its theatrical release on December 21, 2000.
action
Anna Stolberg runs an orphanage with a lot of commitment. Shortly before Christmas, she surprisingly received the notice of termination for the old hunting lodge in which the children were housed. She immediately tries to talk to the owner Friedrich Witt, but he refers to the real estate agent Wolfgang Merkel, to whom he has passed the matter over. Merkel is an ice cold businessman and does not want to hear from Anna's objections. On the spur of the moment, she takes her problems to the city council and tries to convince the men of the importance of the home, but she does not seem to have any success. Nobody wants to support them, because a redesign of the palace should create space for a retirement home and would also allow money to flow into the city coffers.
With the support of her country doctor friend, Dr. Robert Flimm and the resolute housekeeper Hella Roth as well as the good-natured caretaker Hans Reichert avert the imminent eviction and save the children's home after all. The children in the home also want to get involved and sell self-made things at the Christmas market in order to raise money for the rent. Little Georgina manages to touch the old man's heart when he meets the landowner Friedrich Witt. But when Witt wants to give in, he finds out that Merkel has betrayed him and that he no longer has any influence on his property. Anna's deputy, Jürgen Hertweck, had classed himself into this intrigue because Merkel had promised him to run the retirement home. When Merkel presented his concept to the city and revealed his specific plans, which envisage demolishing the historic castle in order to build a modern new building, he had to hear from the city council that the hunting lodge was a listed building and also had a high mortgage . He suspects that those responsible have looked for this way out together with Witt to get him and his fraudulent actions at bay, but sees his plans thwarted and knows that he has lost. Furious, he tears up the contract with Witt and leaves the city.
Happy to be the owner of the Jagdschlösschen again, Witt is determined to donate the building to Anna and the children after it has been thoroughly renovated at his own expense. They spend Christmas Eve there together and Witt happily joins the Christmas carol Silent Night, Holy Night .
Production notes
It is a production by NFP Teleart Berlin, NFP and SWR . The working title of the film was: The Orphanage . In Hungary, All Children Need Love was published under the title Minden gyermek szeretre vágyik .
Reviews
Prisma.de called all children need love as a "soulful family film." The lexicon of international films judged: "Humorous Christmas family film".
The critics of TV Spielfilm gave a medium rating (thumbs straight) and said: "Witta Pohl meets Charles Dickens and becomes the mother of the nation." Conclusion: "TV cotton candy at Christmas time."
Web links
- All children need love in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- All children need love full film in the ARD media library, available until March 2, 2018.
Individual evidence
- ↑ All children need love. In: prisma.de . Retrieved December 9, 2017 .
- ↑ All children need love. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 9, 2017 .
- ^ TV-Rührstück with Witta Pohl as orphan mom , at tvspielfilm.de , accessed on December 8, 2017.