Happiness at the other end of the world

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Movie
Original title Happiness at the other end of the world
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2007
length 180 (2 parts) minutes
Rod
Director Dietmar Klein
script Rodica Doehnert
production Sascha Schwingel ,
Nico Hofmann
music Jens Langbein ,
Robert Schulte Hemming
camera Johannes Geyer
cut Susanne Peuscher
occupation

Happiness at the other end of the world is a two-part German television film by Dietmar Klein from 2007 with Heiner Lauterbach and Maja Maranow in the leading roles and Michael Greiling , Bernhard Schir , Franz Dinda , Karoline Teska and Diane Willems in leading roles.

action

Part 1

Hanna Westphal, manager of the Grünthal dairy company in Berlin, travels on behalf of her boss Werner Sommer, with whom she is also in a relationship, with her two younger daughters Mara and Antonia to New Zealand , where she is supposed to take over the company takeover of an organic cheese dairy. Hanna and her husband Stefan have been separated for five years and have been on friendly terms with each other, mainly because of their three daughters Judith, Mara and Antonia. Stefan has entered into a relationship with the younger Jennifer Hoffmann.

Since Hanna's eldest daughter Judith has completed a one-year internship on a sheep farm in New Zealand, Hanna also wants to use this opportunity to pick up her daughter and take it back home. But when she arrives at the farm, Judith makes it clear to her that she will not return to Germany with her and her sisters because she has fallen in love with Jan Holländer, the son of the sheep farmer Wolf Holländer, and the young couple is already getting married for next week has planned. Hanna's ex-husband was already inaugurated and already has a wedding invitation. Hanna finds it difficult to be satisfied with the facts, but in the end she has no choice but to accept her daughter's decision and let her find happiness in New Zealand. After the successful wedding celebration, Hanna, who has developed sympathy for the father of her new son-in-law, must and wants to return to Berlin. But her company will soon be on another business trip to New Zealand. Before that, however, Hanna received terrible news: Judith was killed in a car accident.

Part 2

Hanna flies to New Zealand with her daughters and her husband Stefan to say goodbye to Judith. In her deep pain, she reproaches Jan for having promised her to have the old car repaired, although he is not to blame for the accident. Wolf tells Hanna that Jan carried his dead wife down the street for hours until he finally found help. How is he ever going to get over this shock? Hanna must speak to him.

In order to keep the promise that Hanna Judith made that Eileen Burrow's Cheese Company could continue to produce organically, Hanna invested her own money in the company, as her employer did not want to follow her concept. However, their approach gets them into trouble. Her boss Werner Sommer himself comes to New Zealand to talk Hanna out of her plan and to point out the consequences of Grünthal.

Wolf confronts Hanna with the fact that she has withdrawn and is only busy making Judith's dream come true. He couldn't go on like this if she didn't trust him, maybe it would really be best if she left. Hanna flies back to Berlin. From Sommer she learns that Grünthal has dismissed her without notice, he only saved her from filing a complaint with the labor court. In addition, the divorce between Hanna and Stefan is pronounced because Stefan has meanwhile had another daughter, Jennifer, little Rosa. Hanna's daughter Mara has also decided to go to New Zealand for a year. To do this, she interrupted her dance training, which she has pursued with great enthusiasm since she was five. She explains to her parents that after her sister's death she cannot just carry on as before.

Jan, who is completely desperate, sets fire to the house he wanted to move into with Judith, and seeks suicide in order to be with her again. His father can get him out of the flames at the last moment. In the hospital there is a discussion between father and son. Jan advises Wolf to fly to Hanna. When the doorbell rings at Hanna's door, Wolf is standing in front of it. Hanna is happy that he has come, especially since she has big problems with her youngest daughter Antonia, who cannot get over the death of her sister and who has developed great fears because she fears the collapse of her entire family.

Wolf makes contact with his daughter Laila in Germany, whom he has never seen again since separating from his wife. They finally admit to each other how much they missed each other. Hanna confesses to Wolf that she would very much like to come to him, but that she would not be able to take this step without Antonia, who does not want to go to New Zealand. And then the tide turns, Hanna and Antonia come to New Zealand together - and this time they want to stay. Hanna also makes her peace with Jan, because she knows that he suffers at least as much from Judith's death as she does.

production

Production notes

It is a production by TeamWorx in co-production with ARD Degeto , Bayerischer Rundfunk and EOS Entertainment . The film was shot between June 19 and August 19, 2006 in South Africa and Berlin. The editor was Hans-Wolfgang Jurgan (ARD Degeto) and Stephanie Heckner (BR).

publication

The multi-part broadcast was first broadcast on April 6, 2007 in the ARD program Das Erste . In Hungary the film was released on June 22, 2007 under the title Boldogtalan boldogság , in France under the title Le bonheur au bout du monde , in Italy under the title In capo al mondo per amore , in Spain under the title Una vida lejos de casa and in the UK under the title A life so far away .

The two-parter was released on DVD by Warner Home Video on April 20, 2007 (playing time: 185 minutes).

criticism

On the Das Erste page it says that director Dietmar Klein has staged “a family drama that is as gripping as it is romantic”. The New Zealand coast forms “the picturesque backdrop for a story of love and trust, of idealism and the courage to start all over again”. “Maja Maranow and Heiner Lauterbach are impressive in the main roles,” it continued.

TV Spielfilm could not gain anything from the story, pointed the thumb down and asked the question, why a film that could have played in the Lüneburg Heath should be set in New Zealand and then shot in South Africa? The self-given answer: "Probably because of the uniform look: Because from the feelings to the dialogues, nothing is real here." Conclusion: "Pilcher in green - and again everything is cheese." The second part of the film was also broadcast by TV Feature film with the words: “Herrje! Dropout dreams to switch off. "

The critic Tilmann P. Gangloff rated the film for tittelbach.tv with 3.5 out of 6 possible stars and came to the conclusion: “What a story!” One can find 'Happiness at the other end of the world' “constructed, especially since also various details would cloud the illusion again and again ”, but overall“ this rollercoaster ride of feelings - measured against the genre - was quite successful ”. Gangloff also said, "Perhaps one would be less generous if Maja Maranow and Heiner Lauterbach did not play the tragic lovers, Karoline Teska and Diane Willens were not so convincing and the 'familiar' subtext did not work so well." Gangloff concluded: “And because all parents jump over their shadows in this story, the plot is always believable, despite its exaggeration; Not to mention the big moments. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Happiness at the other end of the world see page ufa.de
  2. ↑ Happiness at the other end of the world Fig. DVD case (in the picture: Karoline Teska, Maja Maranow, Heiner Lauterbach, Roxanne Borski, Diane Willems, Franz Dinda, Jannik Schümann)
  3. ↑ Happiness at the other end of the world (1) see page daserste.de. Retrieved April 12, 2019.
  4. ↑ Happiness at the other end of the world (2) see page das Erste.de. Retrieved April 12, 2019.
  5. ↑ Happiness at the other end of the world (1) see page tvspielfilm.de (including 22 film images). Retrieved April 12, 2019.
  6. ↑ Happiness at the other end of the world (2) see page tvspielfilm.de (including 18 film images). Retrieved April 12, 2019.
  7. ^ Tilmann P. Gangloff : Multi-part series "Happiness at the other end of the world". Maranow, Lauterbach, Teska, Willems, Röhnert. Effective tragedy collection see page tittelbach.tv . Retrieved April 12, 2019.