Bloch: The blue hour
| Episode in the Bloch series | |||
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| Original title | The blue hour | ||
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| Country of production | Germany | ||
| original language | German | ||
| length | 90 minutes | ||
| classification | Episode 12 ( list ) | ||
| First broadcast | January 9, 2008 on Das Erste | ||
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| Director | Thorsten Näter | ||
| script | Thorsten Näter | ||
| production |
Uwe Franke , Sabine Tettenborn |
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| music | Irmin Schmidt | ||
| camera | Joachim Hasse | ||
| cut | Angela Oechler | ||
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The Blue Hour is a German television film by Thorsten Näter from 2008 . It is the twelfth episode of the Bloch television series .
action
Maximilian Bloch travels from Baden-Baden to Cologne to visit his daughter Leonie. She is not very pleased with the idea of showing up unannounced. Her father quickly finds out that she is privately taking care of the young patient Sina, who is in therapy with her in the hospital after a suicide attempt. Bloch reproaches her for not doing this, because Sina obviously suffers from a borderline personality disorder that can only be treated by professional therapists. The proximity to such people is extremely dangerous for the helper. But Leonie thinks she knows what she's doing and sends her father away, who then wants to take a hotel room. On the way there he meets a woman who obviously suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder. When her need to control threatens to escalate, he speaks to her. She knows about her problems, but thinks she can handle them. The next day he meets her again and recognizes her as the writer Heide Welk. They start a conversation and Bloch comes out as a psychotherapist. Reluctantly, she accepts his offer to help her. You go to his hotel and Heide Welk describes the pressures under which she suffers. She had found that there was no problem writing, so she had started. Publishing the books was not initially planned. But now the compulsions overtake her every day, although she takes her medication regularly, and recently she has even had hallucinations . Bloch first orders her to observe a certain regularity in the daily routine, whether eating, drinking or sleeping.
While he is working with his patient, Clara Born appears, who wants to visit him after she had to refuse him the day before. To see him alone with a woman in his hotel room completely misunderstands her and leaves. To rectify the problem, he visits Clara in the social station, where she currently works as a street worker. But before he can speak to her, he receives an emergency call from Gerd Brahner. He had to admit his wife to a clinic after she had a breakdown. Contrary to the doctor's recommendation, Bloch does not leave his patient in the clinic, but instead brings her to her husband's apartment. Bloch stays with her to give her security. He notices that Gerd Brahner suffers as much from his wife's constraints as she does herself. He has to pay close attention to the cleanliness of the house and the preparation of the food, because otherwise she cannot bear it. He sometimes behaves as if he had an obsessional neurosis himself.
The next day the domestic situation escalates and it looks like Heide Welk attacked and injured her husband. However, this seems strange to Bloch and he researches the company that belongs to his patient. Since she cannot take care of the business, her husband has been doing this for years. Now an important decision to sell the company is pending, which the owner would have to give her consent to. If she were declared unsanitary, Gerd Brahner would have the sole right to decide. With this in mind, Bloch looks for clues as to how he might have manipulated his wife and finds it. He can prove to him that he has exchanged their medications in order to exploit their fears and compulsions for his goals. When Bloch confronts Brahner with this, he admits everything. He wanted to decide something for himself, to have something for himself, namely the severance payment after the company was sold.
When Heide Welk learns the truth, she is deeply shocked, but she is also relieved. After all, she's not schizophrenic , as she feared. However, her husband has left their apartment. For too long he had allowed her illness to determine his life.
background
The blue hour is a co-production of Südwestfunk and Westdeutscher Rundfunk and was filmed together with Maran Film from September 19, 2006 to October 21, 2006 in Cologne and the surrounding area. Thorsten Näter not only directed, but also wrote the script for this film, which was broadcast for the first time on prime time on January 9, 2008 as part of the ARD series “FilmWittwoch im Erste ” and based on a concept by Peter Märthesheimer and Pea Fröhlich originated.
reception
Audience rating
The film was seen by 4.56 million viewers when it first aired on January 9, 2008.
criticism
Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv said: “In a field as problematic as that of psychology, where others regularly bite the viewer on granite, Bloch has managed to regularly lure an audience of millions in front of the screen. Because the TV psychologist is no talker and couch potato. He acts, lends a hand, accompanies the sick in their everyday life and he demands a lot from them. As in most of his cases, in which Bloch always does without the famous couch, in 'The Blue Hour' the stimulus lies in the confrontation between therapist and patient. "
Tilmann P. Gangloff from Kino.de says that the role of the psychotherapist is Dieter Pfaff: “Made for you. [and] again a highlight of this series, which is not exactly poor in terms of highlights. The praise is limited to the scenes with Pfaff and Manzel, which complement each other wonderfully. The two other narrative levels are not only not conducive to the story, they even stand in its way. [...] Both side strands act like foreign bodies and diversionary maneuvers. This is all the more surprising since Näter, already a veteran, otherwise carefully composed his film. "
The TV Spielfilm gave the film the best possible rating (thumbs up) and wrote: “Oppressive images provide insight into the torn soul of a mentally ill woman who is looking for support in the chaos of her environment. The psychogram captivates thanks to the great Manzel. ”Conclusion:“ Perfidious game with madness. ”
Web links
- Bloch: The Blue Hour at the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Bloch: The blue hour at crew united
- Bloch: The blue hour on the ARD website
- Bloch: The blue hour on fernsehserien.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bloch: The blue hour at crew united
- ↑ Bloch: The blue hour audience rating at quotenmeter.de, accessed on December 11, 2014.
- ^ Rainer Tittelbach : Bloch series : The blue hour at tittelbach.tv, accessed on December 11, 2014.
- ↑ Tilmann P. Gangloff : Bloch: The blue hour film review at kino.de, accessed on December 11, 2014.
- ↑ Bloch: The blue hour short review at tvspielfilm.de, accessed on December 11, 2014.
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