Bloch: The hostage

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Episode in the Bloch series
Original title The hostage
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Country of production Germany
original language German
length 90 minutes
classification Episode 18 ( List )
First broadcast October 20, 2010 on Das Erste
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Director Elmar Fischer
script Jörg Tensing
production Uwe Franke ,
Sabine Tettenborn
music Matthias legs
camera Jürgen Carle
cut Martina Butz-Kofer
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Die Geisel is a German TV film by Elmar Fischer from 2010 . It is the eighteenth episode of the Bloch television series .

action

Marianne Herbst, Baden-Württemberg Minister for Culture, Sport and Youth, asks Bloch to help her come to terms with the experiences of her being held hostage in Honduras . She suffers from mood swings and increased nervousness. Actually, she was of the opinion that she could distinguish between her current life and the hell she escaped and that therefore everything should be all right here in Germany. But that is not the case and so she hopes that therapy can help her. Maximilian Bloch already recognizes in the preliminary talk that Marianne Herbst has hidden what she has experienced deep inside and only what she allows penetrates to the outside.

Herbst was held hostage for almost a year and accordingly she lost contact with her family. Their nine-year-old son Leon and their seventeen-year-old daughter Ines cannot easily accept their mother's authority. They had to do without her for a year and now she wants to be the caring mother again. Leon would like to hear stories from the jungle from her, but she strictly refuses. She doesn't want to talk to her husband about it either. More and more often she notices how things from her everyday life evoke the images in her memory and she sees herself in the jungle again.

After her first session with Bloch, during which she describes some of her problems, the therapist wants to get an idea of ​​the domestic situation. He first speaks to Leon, who is disappointed that his mother did not appreciate the nicely decorated room after her return, but went straight to bed. Ines says her mother has been completely "crazy" since she came back. She always reacted in panic and she was worse now than before. Bloch learns that the Herbst marriage was not going well even before the kidnapping. He speaks to her husband, Filip de Keyzer, and quickly realizes that the whole family had to submit to their political work.

Bloch then explains to Marianne Herbst that she absolutely has to take care of her family's needs: the children's hobbies and her husband's work. She should also admit that she also makes mistakes. A conversation with the whole Herbst family reveals that the daughter suffers from her mother's control madness. Bloch can persuade mother and daughter to swap roles, which makes their behavior clear to them. As a result, her family life works a little better, but when the media reports that one of the kidnappers responsible has been arrested, Marianne Herbst's emotional life collapses again. Nevertheless, outwardly she plays the strong woman who tries to suppress and forget with all her might.

In a meeting she finally opens up to Bloch. She had gotten involved in the camp with the kidnapper, who was now arrested, in order to obtain advantages and to stay alive. It scares her that they might talk about their relationship. At home, she manages to apologize to her husband for the way she behaved towards him and the children. But she doesn't manage to talk to him about her relationship in the camp.

Her political opponents find out that the minister is seeking therapeutic help and are trying to use this for her goals. A reporter soon appears and tries to find out about Bloch, but does not succeed. In contrast, the journalists manage to upset Herbst when they ask specifically about their relationship with the kidnapper. She runs away and seeks shelter with Bloch because she no longer dares to go home. The press people now besiege their house. Bloch visits her family and speaks to her husband, who is desperate that his wife simply had not spoken to him about the matter and that he must find out from the press. Due to the media siege, he flees with the children to friends in the Black Forest. Bloch keeps in touch with him and follows Marianne Herbst. They talk about the matter together. She affirms that she only did it to survive. She lived like in a parallel world. Her husband criticizes the fact that they only evaluate people according to their usefulness for themselves. She always did. She mistrusts everyone and only wants them around because she wanted it that way. Only they get involved and decide all important things. It is therefore clear to Bloch that this basic conflict has been smoldering in the marriage for years and that the events in Honduras are only the trigger for the current crisis.

In a television interview, the minister spoke fairly openly about the events in Honduras and announced that she would step down from office. But that has less to do with being taken hostage than with the fact that she now wants to be there for her family, who are more important to her than her political career. Her husband, who had watched the interview on television, picks her up from the airport and they both drive home in silence, but together.

background

Die Geisel is a co-production by Südwestfunk and Westdeutscher Rundfunk and was filmed together with Maran Film from October 13, 2009 to November 13, 2009 in Baden-Baden and Stuttgart . The film was created based on a concept by Peter Märthesheimer and Pea Fröhlich and was broadcast for the first time in prime time on October 20, 2010 as part of the ARD series “FilmWittwoch im Erste ” .

reception

Audience rating

The film was seen by 4.49 million viewers, which corresponds to a market share of 14.9 percent. For the advertising-relevant target group of 14 to 49 year olds, there were 1.06 million viewers and 8.3 percent.

Reviews

Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv judged: “In the 18th mission, Bloch can prove himself as a family therapist. He does an excellent analysis work because the SWR dared to make the film more than usual the scene of complex psychological processes. Bloch is more as a psychotherapist and less as a commissioner of the soul. Masterpiece by Claudia Michelsen! [...] Conclusion: a complex, superbly played psychodrama that is full of social role-playing games. "

Tilmann P. Gangloff from Kino.de says: “As is so often the case in the films in this series, the script uses criminal elements to tell a crime thriller in a different way. [...] Although Fischer implemented Jörg Tensing's script with an almost documentary calm, he managed to build up a high level of intensity. The careful image design by Jürgen Carle, whose camera is still hardly noticeably in motion despite all the serenity, also illustrates the inner restlessness of the figures. "

The TV feature film , awarded the film the best possible rating (thumbs up) and wrote: "Politicians on the couch - not a bad idea"

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bloch: The hostage at crew united
  2. ↑ Audience rating at maranfilm.de, accessed on October 21, 2014.
  3. ↑ Rainer Tittelbach : Bloch series : The Labyrinth at tittelbach.tv, accessed on October 22, 2014.
  4. ^ Tilmann P. Gangloff : Film review at kino.de, accessed on October 22, 2014.
  5. ↑ Short review at tvspielfilm.de, accessed on October 22, 2014.