Departure to freedom

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Movie
Original title Departure to freedom
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2018
length 90 minutes
Rod
Director Isabel Kleefeld
script Heike Fink
Ruth Olshan
Andrea Stoll
production Heike Wiehle-Timm
Cecile Heisler-Zigulla
music Sven Rossenbach
Florian van Volxem
camera Martin Langer
cut Renata Salazar-Ivancan
occupation

Aufbruch in die Freiheit is a German television film by Isabel Kleefeld from 2018. Anna Schudt , Christian Erdmann and Alwara Höfels can be seen in the leading roles . The film is set in 1971 and is about a woman who breaks out of her village narrowness after an abortion , which was forbidden at the time, and who opposes the protests against paragraph 218 and the action We have aborted! connects.

action

Erkelenz, early 1970s: the butcher's wife Erika Gerlach learns that she is pregnant for the fourth time. However, she definitely does not want another child as she is already worn out enough by the work in the family business and the narrowness of the village. On the pretext of visiting her sister Charlotte in Cologne, she secretly has a scraping carried out. However, complications arise when the police arrive and Erika has to undergo emergency surgery. After that, she finds accommodation in the flat of her significantly more emancipated sister, who is preparing a protest against Paragraph 218 with friends.

When she returns to her home village, the situation escalates. Her husband Kurt denies their daughter Ulrike access to the grammar school and explains to Erika that he knew about the abortion. It comes to a loud argument and Erika leaves her husband with her children and moves in with her sister.

However, she has difficulties building a life of her own because, as a woman, she is neither allowed to sign her own employment contract nor to register her daughter at high school without the consent of the man. Then she forges Kurt's signature. In addition, through friends of her sister, she gets a job as a nurse's assistant in the hospital. But when she and her children take part in a demonstration against the abortion ban and appear on the front page of a newspaper, Kurt wants to withdraw custody of the children and wins in court.

Erika is desperate at first, but then she and others take part in the We have aborted! and appears on the cover of Stern magazine on June 6, 1971 . When her mother-in-law dies and it becomes clear that Kurt will not be able to cope with the situation and the butcher's shop alone, Erika decides to return. But she keeps her independence by helping Kurt in the butcher's shop, but the two no longer become a couple and Erika keeps her job at the hospital.

background

The shooting took place in June and July 2017 in Cologne and the surrounding area.

reception

Audience rating

The first broadcast on ZDF took place on October 29, 2018 at 8:15 p.m. The film was seen by 4.27 million people, which corresponds to a market share of 13.5 percent.

Reviews

Anja Rützel from Spiegel Online particularly praises the main actress Anna Schudt and her “multi-layered emotional burden, the shimmering between despair and nonchalance, anger, courage and hopelessness” and says the film tells “calm, pointed and believable a piece of the history of emancipation”. A particularly “clever, well-told detail” is how “with a dramaturgical device (...) Erika Gerlach's personal drama is unobtrusively anchored in West German history” and she is “made into one of the 374 women who are in the famous I have had an abortion - cover story of 'Stern' 1971 confessing to an abortion. "

Awards

Team departure into freedom with the German TV Prize 2019

When the Hamburg Film Festival , the film won the Hamburg producer price . The reasoning states: “Everything that is decisive comes together here: a good idea, a gripping story, pointed dialogues [...], a powerful staging and brilliant actors. The producer and her colleagues describe the fate of the women and the historical context with force, highly believable, atmospherically accurate and without anything that is irrelevant. "

2019 the film was awarded the German Television Award as Best TV Movie excellent. Was also Anna Schudt as Best Actress nomination.

At the Golden Camera 2019 , Departure to Freedom was successful in the categories "Best TV Film" and "Best Actress" (Anna Schudt). Schudt also won the Bavarian TV Prize in 2019 .

The film was nominated for the Grimme Prize 2019 , but remained there without an award.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information on Crew United , accessed October 30, 2018
  2. ↑ information on the audience to Quotenmeter.de , accessed on 30 October 2018
  3. ↑ Anja Rützel: A woman desires , Spiegel Online, October 29, 2018, accessed on October 30, 2018.
  4. ↑ Information on Tittelbach.tv , accessed on October 30, 2018
  5. ↑ Prize winner on deutscher-fernsehpreis.de, accessed on February 1, 2019
  6. ↑ Nominations on deutscher-fernsehpreis.de, accessed on February 1, 2019