The Sacher

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Movie
Original title The Sacher
Country of production Austria , Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2016
length 200 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Robert Dornhelm
script Rodica Doehnert
production Kurt J. Mrkwicka ,
Andreas Kamm ,
Oliver Auspitz ,
Oliver Berben ,
Sarah Kirkegaard
music Roman Kariolou
camera Marcus Kanter
cut Andreas Kopriva
occupation

Das Sacher , subtitled In the best company or the story of a seduction , is an Austrian - German co-production from 2016 . The two-part television film , directed by Robert Dornhelm , was broadcast for the first time on December 27 and 28, 2016 on ORF ; the film was shown on ZDF on January 16 and 18, 2017. On November 28, 2016, the film was presented in the Vienna Metro Cinema .

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The film tells a fictional story about the Vienna Hotel Sacher and its owner Anna Sacher , Franz Sacher's daughter-in-law . The plot begins in 1892 with the death of the hotelier Eduard Sacher and spans a period of around 30 years.

1st chapter

The night Eduard Sacher died at the age of 49, a stranger tried to kidnap eleven-year-old Marie, daughter of Sophie Stadler, a laundress in the hotel. Erik Würtner, an employee of the Vienna State Opera, intervenes and kills the kidnapper, but locks the rescued Marie in the catacombs of the Vienna State Opera . Anna Sacher, Eduard Sacher's widow, fights to obtain her license as purveyor to the imperial court . The life paths of the Austro-Hungarian aristocratic couple Prince Hans Georg von Traunstein and Princess Konstanze von Traunstein and the Berlin publishers Martha and Maximilian Aderhold meet in their hotel. A friendship develops between Konstanze and Martha, but it is endangered when the bestselling author Konstanze, who publishes under the pseudonym Lina Stein in Verlag der Aderholds, starts an affair with Martha's husband, a hapless writer. Police intern Lechner investigates the Stadler case and finds out that Marie is the daughter of Hans Georg von Traunstein, who knew nothing of the child's existence. After hearing about it, he confronts his father Josef, who at the time made sure that Sophie Stadler, who was in the service of the Traunsteins, disappeared from their house. Six years later, after the murder of Elisabeth of Austria-Hungary in 1898, Marie von Würtner learns that she is the daughter of Hans Georg von Traunstein. He also gives her the wallet that he took from the kidnapper who he murdered. Marie escapes from the opera's music archive, Würtner hangs himself.

Part 2

After Marie suddenly reappears, the Traunsteins take Marie in. Konstanze wants to write the story of Marie Stadler, but she does not disclose any information about her kidnapping or her time with Würtner. With Josef von Traunstein she recognizes a wallet that resembles the one that Würtner had taken from her kidnapper. Marie concludes from this that the kidnapper was entrusted with the kidnapping by her grandfather Josef. He also admits this to her. A son Andreas arises from the affair between Konstanze von Traunstein and Maximilian Aderhold, Konstanze does not survive the birth. Hans Georg von Traunstein takes Andreas as his son. With the outbreak of the First World War , the audience in the hotel changed, the guests stayed away, there were mainly soldiers and war returnees to be seen. Maximilian Aderhold goes to the front as a chronicler where he falls. Konstanze's notes show that she knew about her illegitimate daughter Marie and her planned kidnapping from the start.

Production and Background

The shooting took place from April 25, 2016 to July 3, 2016 in Vienna and Lower Austria , and the shooting took place at original locations such as the Hotel Sacher , with heavily frequented hotel areas such as the reception hall and the salon behind it being faithfully recreated on a studio site in Vienna-Liesing . In addition to 50 actors, 950 extras also took part. The film was supported by the Vienna Film Fund and Filmstandort Austria , and the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation and ZDF were involved .

The film was produced by MR Film and MOOVIE the art of entertainment GmbH . The latter already signed in 2012 for the ORF / ZDF co-production Das Adlon. A family saga in charge. As with the film about the Hotel Adlon , Oliver Berben was again a producer, the script was again by Rodica Doehnert , which was titled Das Sacher. The story of a seduction in November 2016 also published a novel based on the film. Thomas Szabolcs was responsible for the sound, Brigitta Fink for the costume design and Bertram Reiter for the production design.

Francesca Habsburg-Lothringen has a guest role as the wife of an English diplomat, played by Howard Nightingall. Other roles include August Schmölzer as Franz Sacher , Lili Epply as housemaid Flora, Philipp Hochmair as Archduke Otto , Liliane Zillner as his lover Marie Schleinzer, Martin Zauner and Martin Müller as commissioners of the hospitality supervisory office, Sophie Stockinger as adult daughter Anni Sacher and Anna Posch can be seen as Irma von Traunstein, daughter of Hans Georg and Konstanze.

Robert Palfrader 's uncle of the same name was employed at the hotel for 34 years, including the last 17 years as general manager. Of the production costs of around eight million euros, 1.6 million were taken over by the Austrian television fund.

Awards and nominations

documentation

Following the first part, the documentary film The Queen of Vienna - Anna Sacher and her hotel was broadcast on ORF . This was produced by Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion GmbH, directed by Beate Thalberg , who also wrote the script for the documentation. The documentary was created in coproduction with ORF and ARTE , with the support of the Austrian Television Fund and the Vienna Film Fund. In addition to a portrait of Anna Sacher, today's Sacher is also presented. For example, long-time boss Elisabeth Gürtler-Mauthner has her say. The documentation was also broadcast on ZDF following the first part.

As part of the Romy Awards 2017 , the documentary was awarded in the category Best Documentation TV .

reception

Reviews

Norbert Mayer described the film in the daily newspaper Die Presse as a relentlessly kitschy, peck-sweet orgy. The melodrama is solidly made and boasts many stars and a few characters. Some dialogues would sound "paper". Beate Thalberg's documentation would do much better to get closer to Ms. Sacher and the milieus of her establishment. The Tiroler Tageszeitung came to a similar conclusion : “Anna Sacher as a person does more justice to Beate Thalberg's documentation. [...] The combination of somewhat sloppy entertainment and informative background is probably profitable for the viewer. "

Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv judged differently , who said: “Despite the splendor of this custom painting - the decor is noble, the staging elegant - the realistic assessment of the time is more important than an emotional heroic dramaturgy. Even the main characters are drawn in a highly ambivalent manner, the narration is multi-perspective and thriller thriller moments are skillfully woven into the social drama. An excellent cast rounds off the 200 minutes of film, in which one gets a lot of the political, (intellectual) historical and interpersonal characteristics of those years between the pictures. "

Audience ratings

The first part was watched by around 1.2 million viewers on average when it was first broadcast on ORF , and the documentation that was subsequently broadcast was seen by around 770,000 people. The quota for the first part corresponded to a market share of 40 percent. Most recently, an ORF fiction production with Crown Prince Rudolf's Last Love , also directed by Robert Dornhelm, achieved a similar value in 2006. The second part reached an average of around 1.05 million viewers when it was first broadcast on ORF.

In Germany, 7.17 million viewers followed the first part when it was first broadcast on ZDF , with a market share of almost 21 percent. The documentary was followed by 5.17 million viewers on ZDF, the market share was 17.5 percent. Part 2 reached an average of 6.2 million viewers, the market share was 19.3 percent.

Publications

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Das Sacher . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; Part 1). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ^ A b Vienna Film Fund: Das Sacher. Story of a seduction . Retrieved November 30, 2016.
  3. ↑ a b orf.at - Das Sacher. In the best company ( memento from December 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved November 30, 2016.
  4. ↑ a b quotenmeter.de: ZDF shows “Das Sacher” in January 2017 . Article dated October 19, 2016, accessed November 30, 2016.
  5. ↑ a b Moovie.de: Das Sacher . Retrieved November 30, 2016.
  6. ↑ Kleine Zeitung: The ORF presented its star-studded “Sacher” film . Article dated November 30, 2016, accessed November 30, 2016.
  7. ^ Vienna's legendary Sacher in the ORF Christmas program . OTS notification dated November 29, 2016, accessed November 30, 2016.
  8. ↑ Robert Dornhelm makes Ursula Strauss the legendary "Sacher" boss . Retrieved November 30, 2016.
  9. ↑ a b derStandard.at: TV epic “Das Sacher” is created in the Sacher . Article dated May 3, 2016, accessed November 30, 2016.
  10. ↑ Robert Dornhelm makes Ursula Strauss the legendary "Sacher" boss . OTS bulletin of May 4, 2016, accessed November 30, 2016.
  11. ↑ derStandard.at: ORF two-parter: Anna Sacher is the man in the house . Article dated December 28, 2016, accessed December 28, 2016.
  12. ↑ KURIER ROMY Academy Awards 2017: The nominations . Article dated March 20, 2017, accessed March 20, 2017.
  13. ↑ ORF co-productions “Das Sacher” and “Gotthard” received awards . OTS notification dated September 8, 2017, accessed September 8, 2017.
  14. ↑ Bambi 2017: The nominees in the categories Actor and Film National have been determined . Article dated November 2, 2017, accessed November 3, 2017.
  15. ↑ Kurier: ROMY Academy honors Birgit Hutter with a platinum award . Article dated March 20, 2017, accessed March 20, 2017.
  16. ^ Kurier: Hollywood Shine: The Winners of the ROMY Academy . Article dated April 20, 2017, accessed April 20, 2017.
  17. ↑ diepresse.com: Chocolate shock in the Hotel Sacher . Article dated December 22, 2016, accessed December 22, 2016.
  18. ↑ The TV world as cake and presentation ( Memento from December 26, 2017 in the Internet Archive ). Article of December 27, 2016.
  19. ^ Rainer Tittelbach: TV film "Das Sacher. In the best of company ” at tittelbach.tv , accessed on December 30, 2016.
  20. ↑ derStandard.at: Just behind the Song Contest: 1.2 million saw Ursula Strauss as Anna Sacher . Article dated December 28, 2016, accessed December 28, 2016.
  21. ↑ Kurier: “Das Sacher” starts with a dream rate . Article dated December 28, 2016, accessed December 28, 2016.
  22. ↑ derStandard.at: "Sacher": Also the second part on ORF with more than a million viewers . Article dated December 29, 2016, accessed December 30, 2016.
  23. ↑ derStandard.at: More than seven million viewers: “Das Sacher” is also successful in Germany . Article from January 17, 2017, accessed on January 17, 2017.
  24. ^ Downwards: «Das Sacher» is losing a million viewers . Article from January 19, 2017, accessed on January 19, 2017.
  25. ↑ “Das Sacher” loses a million viewers on ZDF . Article from January 19, 2017, accessed on January 19, 2017.