Charlotte Link - The other child
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| Original title | Charlotte Link - The other child |
| Country of production | Austria Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2013 |
| length | 85 minutes each |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Urs Egger |
| script | Stefan Dähnert |
| production | Benjamin Benedict |
| music | Ina Siefert and Nellis Du Biel |
| camera | Martin Kukula |
| cut | Hans Funck and Andrea Mertens |
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Charlotte Link - The Other Child is a two-part, German-Austrian television film from 2013 based on Charlotte Link 's novel of the same name, directed by Urs Egger . The German-language first broadcast took place both on ORF 2 and on Erste , where the film was shown on January 2 and 3, 2013.
action
A mother of Pakistani origin is left with a breakdown in her car in the north of England . She is looking for help on a farm. In the barn, her two children are attacked by a neglected, bearded old man who is chained up. The mother and her two children can escape from the barn and call the police. She brings her children to Leslie Cramer, a doctor who specializes in child psychology and who practices in a hospital in Newcastle upon Tyne , northern England .
Leslie Cramer travels to the northern English coastal town of Scarborough to attend her friend Gwen Beckett's engagement party . In the run-up to the celebration, there is a gruesome murder of a student who is ambushed at a railway underpass and where her skull is smashed. The ambitious police officer Valerie Almond takes over the investigation and discovers that the perpetrator has cut off a lock of the victim. Meanwhile, Fiona Barnes, Leslie's grandmother, regularly receives disturbing calls at 6 p.m. in which the caller does not reveal himself, only his breathing can be heard on the phone. Then Leslie requested a grabber for the telephone connection.
During the engagement party, Fiona Barnes portrays Gwen Beckett's fiancé as a marriage swindler who is only after Gwen's property. Thereupon Dave Tanner leaves the board deeply hurt. The round dissolves in a bad mood. Fiona starts walking home. However, she does not reach her apartment where her granddaughter Leslie is expecting her. Instead, she is found dead on the beach. A lock of her hair was cut off too. For the investigator, everything points to a serial killer who is responsible for both murders.
Finally it turns out that Fiona was killed by Gwen because she did not want to accept Dave as her husband. Because Dave broke up with her, Gwen shot him in the back and dropped him into the North Sea, where he is found and rescued by Leslie.
Leslie finds notes from her grandmother Fiona on a floppy disk. There she recorded her memories of her childhood and youth. According to these records Fiona left her strongly that in her childhood at the request of her mother bombardment of the German armed forces exposed hometown to escape to the land of the bombing. During this evacuation , the neighbor boy Brian clung to Fiona, who had lost his entire family in a bombing the night before. Both were taken in by the Beckett family. Fiona and Chad, the son of the family, grew closer and became lovers. Brian was referred to by both as a nobody and expelled from their community. When Fiona's mother remarried, Fiona made her way back to London. Upon returning to the Beckett's court, she found that Brian no longer lived there. Chad defended himself by arguing that he could no longer get on with Brian without her help and that he and his father took the boy to the violent neighbor. Fiona's half-hearted attempt to free him from the neighbour's stable failed.
With the help of the interception circuit it can be determined that the mysterious calls to Fiona Barnes came from a nursing home. Brian, badly marked by his ordeal , who was found by the Pakistani family by chance in the stable, always dialed Fiona's phone shortly before dinner from the home without identifying himself.
background
Production and publication
Charlotte Link only released the plot of her novel for TV adaptation when she was sure that the historical background of her work would be preserved.
The shooting took place on the original locations in northern England in Alnwick , South Shields , Tynemouth , Newcastle upon Tyne and Scarborough , as well as in Berlin . They began on April 13, 2011 and lasted until June 19, 2011. Only a year and a half after the shooting was completed, the film was broadcast on January 2 and 3, 2013 by ORF 2 and the first .
On August 28, 2009, Random House Audio published an audio book based on the novel on eight CDs, which will be read by Gudrun Landgrebe .
Differences to the novel
In order to compress the plot of the novel to the duration of the film of 170 minutes and at the same time to reduce the complexity of the storylines, the visualization of various subplots was dispensed with. At the same time, the scenes of violence in the film were depicted less drastically than is the case in the novel. Leslie Cramer works as a child psychologist in the film, while she is a radiologist in the novel. The introductory encounter between a Pakistani social worker and Brian, who lives in captivity, has been relocated to the present in the 1970s film and replaced by a car broken down by a Pakistani family.
German-language dubbed version
In addition to the German-speaking actors, British actors were also hired to increase the authenticity of the film. The British actors had to be dubbed, while the German-speaking actors can be heard in the original.
reception
Reviews
“But it turned out good anyway. With a German-British star cast, a film was created that breathes a little Rosamunde Pilcher and a little Inspector Barnaby , but only the best of both: Bulky characters act in a unique setting. Around Marie Bäumer alias Leslie Cramer, current criminal cases and an ancient family drama merge into a very dense, touching, exciting story. At least not the worst start to the television year. "
“The new year is just a few hours old, and here comes the first television surprise of 2013: the production company teamWorx and the soft focus experts from ARD Degeto have turned a Charlotte Link bestseller into a two-part - and it turned out really well. "
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of Charlotte Link - The Other Child on January 2, 2013 was seen by a total of 5.62 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 16.5% for Das Erste , in Austria an estimated 624,000 people between the ages of 12 and 49 watched Years ago the first part in ORF 2 .
On January 3, the second part reached a total of 5.51 million viewers in Germany and a market share of 16.0%. ORF 2 recorded 619,000 viewers for the sequel. 73,000 Austrians saw the first part of the film in the first, the second part saw 67,000 Austrian viewers there.
Web links
- Charlotte Link - The other child in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official page for the film
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release for Charlotte Link - The Other Child - Part 1 . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
- ^ Certificate of Release for Charlotte Link - The Other Child - Part 2 . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
- ↑ a b Urs Egger and Benjamin Benedict about the film ( Memento from January 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Nikolaus von Festenberg: ARD two-parter "The other child". What Hitler's bombs can't do. Spiegel Online , January 3, 2013, accessed January 5, 2013 .
- ↑ locations. (No longer available online.) Internet Movie Database , formerly the original ; Retrieved January 5, 2013 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b Nikolaus von Festenberg: Multi-part "Charlotte Link - The Other Child". Spiegel Online , January 4, 2013, accessed January 5, 2013 .
- ↑ Ralf Wiegand: Depressing, but kind of great. Süddeutsche Zeitung, January 2, 2013, accessed on January 3, 2013 .
- ↑ Sven Sakowitz: Brittle in the best possible sense. In: Society. The daily newspaper, January 2, 2013, accessed on May 19, 2018 .
- ↑ Sidney Schering: Primetime check: Wednesday, January 2, 2013.quotemeter.de , January 3, 2013, accessed on October 10, 2018 : "Thus, the station was the market leader for all viewers at prime time."
- ↑ a b "Bachelor": bride recruiter takes off on RTL - market shares - derStandard.at ›budget
- ↑ Kevin Kyburz: Primetime Check: Thursday, January 3, 2013.quotemeter.de , January 4, 2013, accessed on October 10, 2018 : "The first was able to gather more total viewers than the competition on Thursday evening before its program."
- ↑ 763,000 for “Real Viennese” - market shares - derStandard.at ›budget
