Life is a farm
| TV movie | |
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| Original title | Life is a farm |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2012 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Thomas Kronthaler |
| script | Thomas Kronthaler |
| production |
Sophia Aldenhoven , Dieter Ulrich Aselmann , Claudia Grässel , Andreas Ch. Tönnessen |
| music | Martin Unterberger |
| camera | Christof Oefelein |
| cut | Anke Berthold |
| occupation | |
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Life is a Farm is a German TV film from ARD from 2012 .
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Bernhard Stolz is a successful spice dealer and lives in a superficial relationship with his girlfriend Caro. One day his niece Kathi gets the news that his sister Marlies has passed away. He immediately seeks out his brother Hannes, who lives as a monk in a Benedictine monastery. On the way to the funeral, the brothers, who had little contact with each other over the past twelve years, became dissatisfied. The 17-year-old niece Kathi, who is about to graduate from high school, also reacts reservedly to her two uncles, who have not looked after Marlies for years.
Bernhard met with even more resistance from Kathi when he suggested selling the farm the next day, as it was unprofitable and Kathi would find it difficult to run it alone. Villager Alois Hirsegger announces his interest in buying the farm for his son Franz. Kathi, in turn, wants to convert the farm into an organic farm.
Bernhard actually wants to return home immediately after the funeral, but changes his plans when Kathi receives post from the guardianship court and tax office and a visit from a bailiff. From this, the brothers learn that there are still unpaid installments of 17,000 euros from a loan that Marlies had taken out for the treatment of her leukemia. If the loan and the debts on the farm totaling 300,000 euros are not paid within two weeks, there is a risk of the farm's foreclosure auction.
Despite initial reluctance, Kathi slowly develops sympathy for Franz. Bernhard, in turn, meets his former childhood sweetheart, the veterinarian Johanna. Bernhard also doesn't react very enthusiastically when Caro suddenly appears at the farm. Caro leaves disappointed.
To solve the financial problems, Johanna offers to sell the hut, which is on her alpine pasture and should be worth around 200,000 euros, to Hirsegger; Bernhard could get around 100,000 euros from the bank. Bernhard agrees with Hirsegger on a price of 180,000 euros; the Stolz family is obliged to renovate the overgrown footpath to the hut. Behind them, the bank clerk and Hirsegger make a deal that is supposed to help Hirsegger take over the farm. When, with the help of Hannes' friars, it was possible to clear the way to the hut, Hirsegger withdrew his promise to buy. Bernhard drives back home disappointed.
However, when he is informed by the guardianship court that Kathi has proposed him as guardian, he appears just in time for the auction date and receives the bid for the farm with the help of a bank guarantee as security. Kathi invites you to a party on her farm to celebrate her high school diploma, and introduces her two uncles and Franz as her boyfriend.
Reviews
"Sympathetic-harmless (television) family entertainment."
“Among the actors, young colleague Katharina Goebel particularly stands out, who embodies her idiosyncratic Kathi very naturally, sensitively and self-confidently. The topic of family, which receives so much attention in culture and media in times of single society, does not mean the small family made up of parents and children. Kronthaler's film is reminiscent of something more archaic - of the often forgotten, powerful and, if things go well, helpful blood ties of the clan, as they are simply there over many degrees of kinship and generations as if given by God. "
“After all, the viewer gets to see a different form of family, not a small or blended family. Of course, it is quite fake that three complete strangers should help each other just because they belong to the same family, and that from now on too. But it works - probably also because failure in a German family film is simply not intended. Then the film title would have to be different: 'Life is not a farm' "
Web links
- Life is a farm in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Life is a farm. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 23, 2019 .
- ↑ NN: Media: Life is a farm. In: Focus . May 24, 2012, accessed August 31, 2018 .
- ↑ NN: "Life is a farm" is a modern homeland film. In: DerWesten . January 24, 2015, accessed August 31, 2018 .