Bloch: The stranger
| Episode in the Bloch series | |||
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| Original title | The stranger | ||
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| Country of production | Germany | ||
| original language | German | ||
| length | 89 minutes | ||
| Age rating | FSK 12 | ||
| classification | Episode 21 ( List ) | ||
| First broadcast | June 20, 2012 on Das Erste | ||
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| Director | Elmar Fischer | ||
| script | Jörg Tensing | ||
| production | Uwe Franke for Maran Film | ||
| music | Matthias legs | ||
| camera | Stefan Sommer | ||
| cut | Martina Butz-Kofer | ||
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Also: Silvia Maria Passera , Sascha Rösch , Rolf Herrmann , Manuel Moretti , Nils Hamdorf | |||
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Der Fremde is a German television film by Elmar Fischer from 2012 and the twenty-first episode in the Bloch television series . In his 21st case, Bloch ( Dieter Pfaff ) has to deal with Lorenz Haller ( Vadim Glowna ), whose character has fundamentally changed after a stroke, to the great concern of his daughter Jenni ( Lisa Maria Potthoff ). Other leading roles are occupied by Ulrike Krumbiegel and Jonathan Dümcke .
Jörg Tensing's script is based on a concept by Peter Märthesheimer and Pea Fröhlich .
action
Jenni Haller turns to the psychotherapist Dr. Maximilian Bloch, with whom she wants to talk about her father Lorenz. Jenni tells him that her father had a stroke over a year ago and has changed completely since then. He's just not the same anymore. He has led the family business, Haller-Werke für Antriebstechnik, on a conservative basis for 35 years now, but is now acting in such a way that she is seriously worried. When Bloch asked whether she was more afraid for the company or her father, she replied emphatically, for her father. She tells him about Haller's antics and that he left her mother for a younger girl. She was of the opinion that he, Bloch, was the only one who could help her father. Bloch and Haller knew each other well in their youth, they played together in a band.
Since Haller does not receive Bloch in a friendly manner, he turns away and says that he knew beforehand that it would be a mistake to come at all. Even a conversation with Meggie Haller, who Bloch also knows from earlier, does not lead to the matter. Jenny Haller tries to find a solution, whereupon her father throws at her the head that she has been dismissed. When Haller receives a subpoena from the court containing an application for incapacitation, he in turn turns to his former friend Bloch. When he had a stroke, the thalamus was particularly affected. This brain region is also called the “gateway to consciousness”, Bloch explains to him, that it is a switching point between different areas and if something is broken there, it is very difficult, for example, to access your memories. You have to build a new road that leads to the buried memories.
Jenni tells Bloch that she wants her father back as he was before the stroke and that he shouldn't let his new girlfriend Saskia, who also works in the Haller factory, take advantage of him. This led him to get involved in the development of regenerative energy generation, and a new pumped storage plant is now being designed. Two years ago, when she made this proposal, he radically rejected something like that. Bloch is able to convince Jenni that he can only access her father's memories with her help and that she therefore has to attend the therapy sessions.
During the sessions it turns out that memories of past events were perceived and stored in very different ways by both of them. Bloch says to Jenni that she has always wanted a different, real father, and she still does. Lorenz admits that he was a real asshole living with his daughter and that he probably still is. After one of these therapy sessions, Haller surprisingly separates from his much younger friend Saskia. When he wants to move in with Meggie again, she defies his request and tells him that she has met someone with whom she will soon be living in Sicily. So Haller first moves into a hotel. Shortly afterwards, on Bloch's advice, he apologizes to Jenny for being kicked out.
When father and daughter are of the opinion that they do not have to continue the therapy sessions, Bloch seeks a conversation with Lorenz. The men also talk about Amelie, the woman who broke up their friendship. Lorenz had taken it off Bloch at the time, although he was already with Meggie. Since Amelie became pregnant by him, there was an abortion. Lorenz tells Bloch that even then he felt inferior to him because he already knew exactly where his journey was going.
When Jenni happens to find out that her father wants to sell the family company to a large corporation, she is deeply affected. When asked about this, Haller only says that yes he intends to do that, because then they'll both be free at last. Jenni replies that she likes to be in the "puffy dump", as he calls her hometown, why doesn't he just pull out of the business and leave the management in her hands. It becomes clear that not only Lorenz is unable to understand his daughter, it is the other way around. After Jenni leaves in anger, Haller collapses and comes to the hospital. Bloch confronts Jenni with the unpleasant truth that she is afraid to get involved with someone. Only if she can come to terms with her father would both of them have a chance of not falling apart completely.
When Lorenz is better again, he compares himself to an ant that is also stuck in its ant colony - for a lifetime. Suddenly he was the emperor without wings, since his father would have disinherited him had he not complied with his company requirements. But today he knows that he has missed something very important in his life, namely to spend time together with his daughter. He is now ready and hands over the management to Jenni. Before he leaves the place where he could never be happy, he sits with Bloch on the flat roof of the Haller factory and both play and sing a song from their common past.
Production, publication
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The film recordings were made in summer 2011 mainly in the Black Forest , including in Baden-Baden . Buildings of the toy manufacturer Faller in Gütenbach and Glatfelter Gernsbach were used as filming locations for the fictional Haller works . The editorial team was Brigitte Dithard for SWR and Nina Klamroth for WDR .
Soundtrack: Johnny Cash ( Hurt ) . Pfaff and Glowna sang the title song You don't let it Show together. The film has the suffix: “In memory of Vadim Glowna”.
The stranger ran for the first time on June 20, 2012 on German television as part of the ARD series “FilmMittwoch im Erste ”.
Cases 21 to 24 were released on DVD on June 13, 2013 by Studio Hamburg Enterprises.
reception
criticism
TV Spielfilm pointed with the thumbs up and spoke of a case that was carried by "calm, wisdom and deep melancholy" and showed "Glowna in one of his last roles" before he died on January 24, 2012 and Pfaff gave him a good one Followed a year later. Conclusion: "Old sad men and a difficult case".
Rainer Tittelbach from Tittelbach.tv explained that the film follows a “narrative rhythm” that “has been sniffed out from life” and offers “a high connection potential for the viewer” and proves “that people are more exciting than any crime story & that they Series is the most socially (!) Relevant long-term project in recent years ”. It said: "What a little reading forced in the synopsis, acts in the 90 minutes of film psychologically and dramatically very convincing. Wonderfully clear the characters and their conflicts are presented in a narrative rhythm that life writes" The stranger got " in addition, completely different qualities ”. The fact that he is embedded in the late songs by Johnny Cash contributes a lot “to the atmosphere of this superbly played, well-photographed film that works with casual symbols”.
Christian Buß took a position for Spiegel Online and was of the opinion: "A great generation film - and a worthy farewell to the recently deceased Vadim Glowna."
kino.de was of the opinion that “one of the great strengths of the 'Bloch' film series, which is alternately supervised by WDR and SWR”, is that “the psychotherapist's patients are never just cases”. It is true that the stories always have “something criminalistic, but in contrast to the usual investigator, Bloch is mostly personally involved”. It also said: “The more he is affected, the better the films are.” Jörg Tensing was certified as having a “clever script” that “spreads the tension over several levels”. It goes without saying that "the role of the former best friend had to be cast with an actor who was up to the force of Dieter Pfaff". "Vadim Glowna, who died in January, once again emphatically demonstrates the enormous loss his death represents for German film." [...] "When the two giants of the art of acting compete at the highest level, [ Lisa Maria Potthoff, who otherwise does her job very well, cannot keep up in all scenes. "
Moritz Baumstieger from the Süddeutsche also focused on the performance of Vadim Glowna in one of his last roles, who, as a victim of a stroke, once again brought his insides outward with ingenious, fleshy facial expressions.
Audience rating
The film was seen by 4.72 million viewers when it was first broadcast, which corresponds to a market share of 16.5%.
Web links
- Bloch: The Stranger in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Bloch: The stranger at crew united
- Bloch: The stranger at fernsehserie.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Siegfried Kouba: Many Gütenbach residents leave the lights on in apartments until midnight. In: Black Forest Messenger. July 10, 2011, accessed April 7, 2018 .
- ↑ a b Bloch: The Stranger Father-Daughter Drama with Big Dead: Dieter Pfaff and Vadim Glowna In: tvspielfilm.de (with 13 pictures from the film). Retrieved December 21, 2016.
- ↑ Bloch - The cases 21-24: The stranger; Hot cold soul; The maze; The Lavender Queen DVD The grand finale
- ^ A b Rainer Tittelbach : Series "Bloch - Der Fremde" Pfaff, Glowna, Potthoff, Krumbiegel. When the wrong life is lived for years at tittelbach.tv
- ↑ Christian Buß: Vadim Glowna in “Bloch”: The monster is called memory In: Spiegel Online, June 20, 2012. Accessed December 21, 2016.
- ↑ Bloch: Der Fremde Der neue Bloch lives above all from the competition between Dieter Pfaff and Vadim Glowna, in one of his last roles. at kino.de
- ↑ Moritz Baumstieger: The stranger - all life lies back on the table In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, June 20, 2012. Accessed on December 21, 2016.
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