In the street
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| Original title | In the street |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2015 |
| length | 89 minutes |
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| Director | Florian Baxmeyer |
| script | Thorsten Näter |
| production | Markus Trebitsch |
| music | Annette Focks |
| camera | Wedigo von Schultzendorff |
| cut | Ueli Christians |
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On the street is a German feature film by Florian Baxmeyer from 2015 with Christiane Hörbiger in the leading role. The first broadcast took place on October 12, 2015 in the program Das Erste .
action
Hanna Berger lives with her husband Walter in a secluded apartment in Hamburg-Eimsbüttel . When she comes home one day, he is already sitting on the couch and drinking a glass of wine. He complains about the bad business of his wine shop when he suddenly collapses and suffers a fatal heart attack. Hanna leaves her daughter Elke, with whom she has not had any contact for many years, only a message on the answering machine. Elke appears at the funeral, but refuses to speak to her mother.
Shortly afterwards, Hanna discovered that Walter had been hiding her financial situation from her for some time. He stopped paying bills, stopped paying the installments on the apartment loan and took out a new loan at sharply increased interest rates shortly before his death. Her house bank informs her that the apartment will soon be foreclosed because she cannot pay off the debts from her small pension. Both the bank and her friend Gabriele advise her to go to the social welfare office . But her pride is too great and so she is stranded with few belongings in a homeless shelter after the apartment was vacated. There, too, a supervisor suggests going to the social welfare office.
Finally, Hanna shows up there and learns what she already suspected: If she receives social benefits, her daughter will be approached by the office and possibly called in for support. But Hanna definitely wants to prevent that. So begins her life on the street - and the acquaintance with Mecki. The young woman has been homeless for many years after falling out with her mother. Hanna gets to know the rough life: she feeds on leftover food, sleeps under a bridge or argues with another homeless person about a deposit bottle. Your efforts to find work are doomed. Without a permanent residence, nobody wants to employ them.
Meanwhile, Elke has become restless. The death of her father led to an "emotional roller coaster ride" for her. She gets into an argument with her boyfriend Lars, with whom she successfully runs a restaurant. She had told him at the beginning of their relationship that their parents were already dead. And her daughter doesn't know anything about the grandmother's existence either. Elke drives to her mother's former apartment and learns from a neighbor that she had to move out. She starts looking for her mother and finds her on the street with Mecki and other homeless people. Elke offers Hanna to temporarily take her in her apartment, but Hanna is too proud and refuses. This leads to an argument with Mecki, who cannot explain Hanna's attitude. When Hanna is attacked the following night and she can barely endure life on the street, she finally goes to Elke and is taken in by her. However, the two women soon quarrel: Elke never felt loved by her mother. When she was expecting a child at 18, Hanna urged her to have an abortion . But it didn't come to that - Elke suffered a miscarriage and then completely broke off contact with her mother. Hanna, on the other hand, wanted to protect her daughter because she also became pregnant much too early - with her. Since Hanna's parents were dead and she could not expect any support, she felt completely overwhelmed and until the break with her daughter constantly had the feeling that she was not a good mother. Hanna leaves the apartment without further ado. Lars is beside himself and there is an argument with Elke. Lars accuses Elke of having already neglected her father. He sees the danger that she will now also lose her mother and the grandmother of their daughter.
Hanna is deeply disappointed. She takes an overdose of tranquilizers and is about to throw herself off a bridge when Mecki finds her at the last moment. She comes to in the hospital and is reconciled with Elke. Together they get Hanna a small apartment on the outskirts of Hamburg.
criticism
Heike Huperts from FAZ praises the good acting performance. The issues of old-age poverty and homelessness are presented “quite seriously”. However, she is bothered by the “obligatory mother-daughter story”, which “takes away the horror” of the film. Joseph von Westphalen from the Süddeutsche Zeitung criticizes the fact that the film lacks the courage to stop bleakly. Nevertheless, he welcomes the fact that the end is "at least not happy, but light gray". The homeless play Hörbiger "with an almost obsessive fervor".
Web links
- On the road in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- On the street at filmportal.de
- On the street , ARD website, accessed on October 12, 2015.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Die Rollen , ARD website, accessed on October 12, 2015.
- ↑ Heike Huperts: She has nothing left but her pride . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , October 12, 2015, accessed on October 12, 2015.
- ^ Joseph von Westphalen: Elderly woman on the abyss . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , October 12, 2015, accessed on October 12, 2015.