Hope in the end

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Movie
Original title Hope in the end
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2011
length 109 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 10
Rod
Director Thorsten Näter
script Annette Hess
production Doris Zander ,
Frank Kaminski
music Ingo Frenzel
camera Joachim Hasse
cut Julia von Frihling
occupation

Hope at the end is a television drama based on a script by Annette Hess and directed by Thorsten Näter with Yvonne Catterfeld and Stephan Luca in the lead roles.

action

2011: The submarine U-864 , believed to have been lost since 1944 , is recovered in a fjord in Norway. The 85-year-old Ellen Ludwig experiences this; it prompts her to embark on an unusual journey: she gets into her granddaughter's taxi and lets her drive her to Oslo; During the journey, she recalls the dramatic events of her life.

1944: Young Ellen realizes: there must finally be peace. So it closes one day a small resistance group against Hitler - regime of. In a botched action, she comes across the doctor Robert. When he admits that he works for the English secret service , Ellen decides to help him.

Since he is only interested in U-864 and its top secret mission , he puts Ellen on the young engineer Hans, who is also on board as a naval officer. Ellen does her best to spy on the newly engaged officer and they fall in love.

main characters

The young Elisabeth

The murder of her parents by the Nazis made Ellen hard; she joins the resistance movement . One night she and her friend Gertrud are caught by the police doing a poster campaign; her escaping friend is shot.

The young doctor Robert - an English spy - saves Ellen from the police. He falls in love with the resistance fighter and recruits her for the British secret service . She is supposed to spy on naval officer Hans Mertens.

Hans Mertens

Hans Mertens, who comes from a poor family, has worked his way up to officer of the German war submarine U-864.

When U-864 comes under surveillance by the British secret service , Hans is supposed to find out information about the mission of the submarine through Hans. When Ellen got to know him better, she quickly recognized him as an honest, sensitive, generous and sincere man. Hans is deeply impressed by meeting Ellen.

Robert Elbing

The British spy and doctor Robert Elbing has only one goal - the senseless war must come to an end, no matter how. He stands up to the enemy and accepts to have to 'walk over corpses'.

Since his first meeting with Ellen, he has dreamed of a life with her. But as the contact between Ellen and Hans Mertens intensifies, she moves away from Robert and makes him so jealous.

The elder Elisabeth

Elisabeth never got over the guilt she took on in World War II. That was also the reason why it was difficult for her all her life to allow feelings. Her daughter and granddaughter Kati also felt this. Her cool facade begins to crumble when she learns that the U-864 has been salvaged almost 60 years after World War II.

Kati Kruger

The single woman Kati is Elisabeth's granddaughter and chronically broke. The chaotic student also tries to earn money as a taxi driver . Because her grandmother abandoned the family for several years, her relationship with her is rather cool. The advances made by her grandmother initially met with resistance from Kati. When Elisabeth collapses on the ferry on the way to Norway, Kati is ready to listen to her grandmother's story.

background

On February 9, 1945, the German war submarine U-864 was attacked and sunk on the coast of Norway by the British submarine HMS Venturer . The captain of U-864 - Ralf-Reimer Wolfram - had the order to deliver weapons plans and over 60 tons of mercury to the Japanese in order to support them in the fight against the Americans. None on board U-864 survived the attack; 73 men died.

Filming

The film was shot between February 15 and April 7, 2011 with a production grant of around 600,000 euros. Filming locations were Berlin and the surrounding area as well as Munich , the state of Lower Saxony and Norway . The set was created by Matthias Klemme and the costumes were designed by Helene Hohensee.

Charisma

The film premiered on October 18, 2011 on Sat.1 and reached 3.15 million viewers. The market share of 14 to 49 year olds was 10.8 percent.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for At the end of the hope . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , September 2011 (PDF; test number: 129 336 V).
  2. ↑ Age rating for Hope in the end . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ Not because of event: Catterfeld film on Sat.1 weak