Blue water life

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Movie
Original title Blue water life
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2015
length 90 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Judith Kennel
script Christoph Silber
Stefan C. Schaefer
production Anne-Lena Dwyer
Jutta Lieck-Klenke
music Florian Tessloff
camera Nathalie Wiedemann
cut Jan Pusch
occupation

Blauwasserleben is a German TV film from 2015 by Judith Kennel with Stefanie Stappenbeck and Marcus Mittermeier in the leading roles. The story based on the novel of the same name by Heike Dorsch is based on true events.

action

Heike and Stefan have been a couple for many years and after a long wait, their dream came true. With a catamaran you sail around the world all by yourself. They are happy and everything seems perfect when they arrive on the island of Nuku Hiva in the South Pacific and find a beautiful paradise here that seems to fully correspond to their desire to live in harmony with nature. Your dream of unrestricted freedom seems to be finally coming true. But then their happiness comes to an abrupt end, because Stefan does not return after an excursion. The couple had met the local Arihano the day before and Stefan had gone alone into the jungle with him. After Arihano returns alone, Heike, worried, agrees to go with the local in search of Stefan, whom Arihano allegedly had to leave behind injured. Arriving in the jungle, Arihano suddenly threatens her with a gun and wants to rape her. But Heike defends himself massively and can escape. She asks the island police for help, but they are very reluctant to start looking for Stefan. Chief investigator Jacques, with whom Heike can communicate best, initially doubts her story, especially since she does not immediately remember the name of the local. When she remembers and can also show a photo showing Stefan and Arihano, Jacques has to believe her. However, concerns remain because the young man is the son of a respected member of the village and the Church. Jacques speaks to Arihano's family, but the young man has disappeared.

All doubts about Heike's allegations against the local are dispelled when, after days of searching, a burned skeleton is found in the jungle. Heike is devastated and travels back to Germany to come to terms with the traumatic experience. Her mother and sister pick them up from the airport, where they have to "fight" their way through the waiting reporters, who will continue to harass them for the next few days. Heike finds it difficult to get back to everyday life and is plagued by nightmares and financial problems. She is concerned that she has no power of disposal over the joint account because they were not married. The account was in Stefan's name and she was only added as an authorized signatory. Although the credit also consisted of her savings, Heike is now penniless. The boat is also in Stefan's name and is inherited only by his family. The attempt to get her old job back in Hamburg fails and so Heike turns to a reporter who had offered her to publish her story exclusively. She receives a reasonable fee for this, which takes some of the financial burden off her. The reporter also accompanies Heike to the island of Nuku Hiva, where Arihano has finally been caught and she is expected for a confrontation. This time will be very difficult again for Heike, because she not only has to face the murderer of her great love, but also back to the place where it happened in the jungle so that the crime can be reconstructed. After Arihano makes contradicting statements about the course of the murder of Stefan, which he claims was self-defense, investigator Jacques sees it as proven that Arihano is guilty.

Arihano's father is also convinced of his son's guilt and asks Heike to apologize for what his son did to her and Stefan. While still on the island, on the advice of the reporter, Heike begins to write down her story in order to be able to finish with the past.

background

The shooting took place in Hamburg and Hawaii . The death of Stefan Ramin caused a sensation worldwide as a cannibal murder, but later investigations did not reveal any evidence of cannibalism. The perpetrator was sentenced to 28 years imprisonment on May 16, 2014. However, to this day he is silent about the exact circumstances of the act. The novel Blauwasserleben was published in autumn 2012.

reception

Audience ratings

When it was first broadcast on March 15, 2015 as part of the ZDF series “Herzkino”, Blauwasserleben was seen by 4.97 million viewers in Germany, which corresponded to a market share of 13.5 percent.

Reviews

Rainer Tittelbach from Tittelbach.TV writes: "The director and the authors Christoph Silber and Stefan Schaefer interweave the time levels, which makes it particularly clear that it is not only the story of that woman, but that it is also her subjective perspective, that gives shape to the experience. This gives the film a very 'special' narrative flow, a kind of subjective flow of perception and knowledge, an unusual, less finalized sequence of dramaturgy. […] [It is true that the] viewers who want to develop the plot dramaturgically have it all the more difficult to derive a coherent plot from the dramatic splinters. […] The splinter dramaturgy [but] is proving to be increasingly helpful, because it connects the opposing experiences and makes the unimaginable easier for the viewer to understand. "Conclusion:" Highly emotional, dramatic for the 'Herzkino' extremely demanding and with Stefanie Stappenbeck and Marcus Mittermeier extremely perfectly cast. "

The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm also rate it positively and believe that the story is told with a lot of "respect and sensitivity". “The topic of women at the crossroads is constantly varied in the ZDF 'Herzkino' - today the Mainz people surprise us: An almost documentary drama without emotional intrusiveness and without the tantalism with which the media reported on the 'cannibal murder' in 2011. Stefanie Stappenbeck makes the story of coping with a trauma believable, the initially somewhat irritating leaps in time make sense in the course of the plot. And the few violins too many on the soundtrack can also be endured. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ locations in Internet Movie Database retrieved.
  2. ↑ a b Stappenbeck, Mittermeier, Kennel, Dorsch. The love of life triumphs over the trauma of film criticism on tittelbach.tv, accessed on December 13, 2016
  3. ↑ Blauwasserleben short review at tvspielfilm.de, accessed on December 13, 2016.