Bloch: A buried dog
| Episode in the Bloch series | |||
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| Original title | A buried dog | ||
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| Country of production | Germany | ||
| original language | German | ||
| Production company |
Maran movie | ||
| length | 88 minutes | ||
| Age rating | FSK 12 | ||
| classification | Episode 2 ( list ) | ||
| First broadcast | September 18, 2002 on Das Erste | ||
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| Director | Peter Schulze-Rohr | ||
| script |
Peter Märthesheimer Pea Fröhlich |
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| production | Hans-Werner Balgheim | ||
| music | Irmin Schmidt | ||
| camera | Hubert Schick | ||
| cut | Margot Löhlein | ||
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A Buried Dog is a German TV film directed by Peter Schulze-Rohr from 2002 . It is the second episode of the Bloch television series with Dieter Pfaff in the title role of Dr. Maximilian Bloch. The main guest stars of this episode are Catherine H. Flemming as Clara Born, who becomes more for Bloch than just the mother of a little patient, Christoph Herzog as Tommy Born, Katharina Wackernagel as Bloch's daughter Leonie and David Kötter and Guntbert Warns .
action
Bloch says goodbye to his wife Annegret at the train station, whom he visited over the weekend. The couple are now separated, the doctor continues in the country near the hospital where she works, and Bloch with his daughter Leonie in the city. On the train, he becomes aware of a child in the next compartment who is constantly screaming. He throws his coat over the boy, whereupon the boy is instantly silent. When he hands the mother of the child his card with the request to send the coat back to him when the opportunity arises, he says that her child urgently needs therapy.
When Bloch enters his practice some time later, the woman from the train is standing in front of him with her screaming child. After Bloch first treated her in a rather unfriendly and dismissive manner, he was ready to take on the case. He asks the woman, who introduces herself as Clara Born and her son as Tommy, unusual questions and then takes her to her comfortable house, which also has a gallery she runs . Bloch learns that her husband travels a lot for work.
The other day Bloch talks to the underage Max, Tommy Born's best friend, who says that without Tommy everything would be nothing and that he couldn't make Tommy speak again. When Bloch tries to establish a connection with Tommy in the Born house, his father suddenly bursts into the room and expels Bloch from the house. A few days later, Clara Born shows up at Bloch's in the middle of the night and asks for asylum.
In another conversation with Max, in which the boy again tells him about the mysterious snake, Bloch thinks Max is lying. He didn't even ask how his supposedly best friend was doing, or even visited him once. Max replies that he must not visit Tommy or wake him up and that he must defeat the snake all by himself, otherwise the snake will defeat him. A short time later, Max Bloch leads to a parking garage, which has a hidden entrance to the queue. If you look at the queue, everyone passes out, says Max. That was what happened to Tommy, and he has never spoken a word since then. Max leaves Bloch alone and asks him to take good care of himself. Bloch finds an obscure bar behind the designated entrance and soon comes across Tommy's father, who is lying in the arms of a man in a snake suit.
Shortly thereafter, Tommy disappeared. Bloch thinks he knows where the child has gone. He joins in when the boy is attacking the man in the snake costume with a kind of knife, but without seriously injuring him. Turning to his father, he says: “Well, now you can go away, papa.” Bloch comes up and catches the unconscious child. “They will never be loved like this again”, are his words to Tommy's father.
Bloch carries the little one into his apartment, shoulder Clara Born and carries her into his room. During the night a small figure sneaks into bed with them and lies down between them. When Tommy's mother wanted to leave the apartment with her child the next morning, Tommy asked Bloch to come along. "How nice that you are talking again," replies the psychotherapist.
production
Shooting, roles
The film A Buried Dog , produced by Maran Film , was shot in Cologne . Wolf-Dietrich Brücker was responsible for production at WDR , and Bettina Ricklefs at SWR .
The role of Clara Born is played by the actress Catherine H. Flemming , her son Tommy is played by Christoph Herzog. In the following films in the series, the characters were played by Ulrike Krumbiegel and Jonathan Dümcke .
publication
The film was first broadcast on September 18, 2002 in prime time as part of the ARD series “FilmWittwoch im Erste ”.
Studio Hamburg Enterprises published cases 1 to 4 on DVD on May 30, 2007 in cooperation with ARD Das Erste .
reception
criticism
TV Spielfilm gave the film the best possible rating, pointed a thumbs up and wrote: “Solid, but 'Bloch' can do better: The relationship between the cause and effect of the child's trauma seems exaggerated.” Conclusion: “Sanitation, the questions poses ".
Kino.de said that the directors and scriptwriters “succeeded with the second Bloch episode, which is not a matter of course”: “They stir up interest in a psychological case - in the technical jargon, the 'mutistic thrust' of a boy - and take it away from the viewer Shy to deal with psychological disorders and to be interested in the psychological life of their characters. ”Through“ the presence of Bloch, who lets you sit up and take notice with his methods ”and“ invites you into the emotional carousel with his private capers ”,“ a balanced story arises in the for drama and humor alike ”. In conclusion, it was of the opinion that “the complexity of this role” was “tailored to the wonderful Dieter Pfaff”.
Karin Schickinger dealt with the film and said: “Even with the first scene in which a four-year-old boy explains what a soul is from the off, the second part of the four-episode series about the psychotherapist Bloch [captivates]. "Dieter Pfaff, who is convincing as always, is" to be noted that he is good with children ". David Kötter shows as Max "an impressive performance and the conversations between Bloch and the boy" are "the most beautiful scenes of the film". The scriptwriters also do not repeat the “mistakes of many colleagues” who “would like to meticulously dissect the socializations of their people”. Trust in “sparse, direct dialogues”.
In Spiegel one could read that “the second case of the rightly universally praised series with the weighty psychotherapist Bloch” […] holds the “high level of acting”. The authors of the episode had “packed the plot” with “all the rules of television art with dramatic moments”, so that one could forget “that psychology has to do with internal processes”.
Awards
- 2003 Irmin Schmidt , nominated in the category "Best Music"
- for episode 1: Bloch: Black Dust
- for episode 2: Bloch: A buried dog
Web links
- Bloch: A buried dog in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Bloch: A buried dog at crew united
- Bloch 2. A buried dog sS fernsehserien.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bloch The Cases 1–4 Fig. DVD case ARD Video
- ↑ Bloch: A buried dog see tvspielfilm.de, accessed on November 15, 2018 (including 15 film images).
- ↑ Bloch: A buried dog sS kino.de, accessed on November 15, 2018.
- ↑ Karin Schickinger: Bloch 2: A buried dog sS karinschickinger.de. Retrieved November 15, 2018 (PDF document).
- ↑ Bloch: A buried dog sS magazin.spiegel.de. Retrieved November 15, 2018 (PDF document).
- ↑ Bloch: Schwarzer Staub sS IMDb.com (Awards)
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