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Movie
Original title All the best
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2010
length 90 minutes
Rod
Director Kai Wessel
script Beate Langmaack
production Ilka Förster ,
Heike Richter-Karst
music Ralf Wienrich
camera Judith Kaufmann
cut Tina Friday
occupation

Alles Liebe is a German TV film by Kai Wessel with Hannelore Elsner from 2010.

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Irma Bergner is a widow and her 65th birthday is imminent. Your three grown children could hardly be more different. Her eldest daughter Kathrin is a successful businesswoman, "Nettchen" is a single mother and son Laurenz is a medical student who prefers to have fun with his girlfriend Helen instead of studying. Although their relationship with their mother is not the best, they want to give Irma something special when she turns 65. They decide to spend Irma's birthday together in an old holiday home by the lake, where - as they believe - they once spent happy family vacations with their father. Irma, who was expecting a trip to Las Vegas , is anything but thrilled when she is brought blindfolded to the house by the lake. She never enjoyed being there. The invited surprise guests also cloud the mood, like Irma's old friend Heidrun, with whom Irma has long quarreled.

Nettchen's 13-year-old daughter Louisa causes a brief excitement when she gets into the car of a stranger and drives away with him. Laurenz was supposed to take care of her, but let herself be distracted by a shepherd's hour with Helen. The police are notified, whereupon Louisa is suddenly back. She had gone to the village with Baptiste, Nettchen's Danish friend, to buy a birthday present for her grandmother. However, it is not her mother, Nettchen, who finally gives her a lecture, but Kathrin. Louisa should write notes in the future and never get into a stranger's car.

When Irma's birthday is finally to be toasted, Helen comes down the stairs in her underwear. Laurenz introduces them to those present, whereupon the younger ones want to go swimming. However, Kathrin insists that Nettchen and Laurenz help with the preparations for the actual celebration. Meanwhile, Louisa discovers a diary on her grandmother's laptop, which leads her to believe that Irma is seriously ill and has not much longer to live. Therefore, in contrast to the others, she actually strives to bring joy to Irma. When Baptiste and Helen want to bake a fish, but the fish burns in the oven, the celebration is moved to an inn. While Baptiste and Helen take a hotel room to spend the night together, Kathrin, Nettchen and Irma reproach each other over dinner. Kathrin is too focused on her career, which is why she has no children. Nettchen only cares about her appearance instead of her daughter and Irma's marriage was not a happy one.

Back at the holiday home, Louisa tells her aunt that Irma is seriously ill. Worried, Kathrin goes to her mother, who is sitting alone in front of the fireplace with a blanket that Heidrun gave her. It turns out that Irma has never used her laptop. She had bought it as a used device and the diary had been written by the original owner. Kathrin now falls into Irma's arms, relieved, and they talk. Later, Irma and her children are still sitting together in the kitchen. Irma wants to sell the house and move to Cape Town . Before going to bed, she tells her children that in spite of everything, she loves them. When the house is suddenly under water and Irma is called to help by her children, Irma comes back and says it wouldn't be so bad. The next day they go to the lake together and take family photos.

background

The shooting took place from June 30th to July 29th, 2009 in Munich and in Eching am Ammersee .

Alles Liebe premiered on June 26, 2010 at the Munich Film Festival. On September 1, 2010, the tragic comedy was broadcast for the first time on German television by ARD . The audience rating was 4.72 million viewers and corresponded to a market share of 16.3%.

Reviews

"What can happen when the mother turns 65 is shown by director Kai Wessels skillfully staged tragic comedy about the normal family madness," said Prisma . Above all, Hannelore Elsner explains "why she is still one of Germany's best actresses". For TV Spielfilm , Alles Liebe was "precisely observed and garnished with a lot of bitter sarcasm". In short, the film is "[l] equally smart, enjoyable, 1A played" and "great filmed".

According to Klaudia Wick from the Berliner Zeitung , the film "brings together the modern life models of our society with a lot of sensitivity for human weaknesses and narrative nuances". Karoline Eichhorn impressed "in her role of the firstborn, who always wanted to impress the father and has long despised her mother for her motherliness". Wick also praised "Kai Wessel's unobtrusive, but ambitious staging" and "Judith Kaufmann's congenial camera work", which had made the film a piece of real life with "Beate Langmaack's wise dialogues". The artificial and at the same time realistic looking “Kammerspiel” counts “among the best that the television year 2010 [...] had to offer”, if only because Alles Liebe consistently dispensed with “the over-dramatization that is so common today” and instead focused on “precise everyday observations” .

Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv described the film as a “masterpiece of the genre”. It is "pleasantly light and airy and underlined with so-now-life-trembling music". Tittelbach also praised camerawoman Judith Kaufmann, "who contributes to the realistic density of the film with sometimes long shots and sometimes with atmospheric compositions". The actors are consistently convincing and Karoline Eichhorn proves "once more that she is one of the best of her generation".

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ ARD drama before US adventure comedy on ZDF . focus.de, September 2, 2010.
  2. ↑ All the best. In: prisma.de. prisma-Verlag , accessed on September 9, 2017 .
  3. ↑ cf. tvspielfilm.de
  4. ↑ Klaudia Wick : A piece of real life . In: Berliner Zeitung , September 1, 2010.
  5. ↑ cf. tittelbach.tv