The miracle of Carinthia
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The miracle of Carinthia |
| Country of production | Germany , Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2011 |
| length | 89 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Andreas Prochaska |
| script |
Christoph Silber , Thorsten Wettcke |
| production |
Sam Davis , Klaus Graf |
| music | Matthias Weber |
| camera | Thomas Kiennast |
| cut | Daniel Prochaska |
| occupation | |
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The miracle of Carinthia is a TV film by director Andreas Prochaska from 2011. The screenplay was written by Christoph Silber and Thorsten Wettcke .
The film is based on a true story from 1998 in which a four year old girl fell into her parents' pond and apparently drowned. The young heart surgeon Dr. Markus Thalmann took up the seemingly hopeless fight for the girl's life. Its rescue went down in the history of modern medicine as "the miracle of Carinthia".
The production (English title: A Day for a Miracle ) won one of the International Emmy Awards on November 25, 2013 .
action
The young Viennese heart surgeon and ultra marathon runner Dr. Markus Höchstmann ( Ken Duken ) had a hard time in his first job at the State Hospital in Klagenfurt in 1998. He only sees his family, who have stayed in Vienna , on weekends; his older colleagues consider him arrogant because of his commute to the big city. Ironically, on the weekend on which his son has his fifth birthday, he has to represent the head physician who has traveled to the USA and is supposed to operate on a Carinthian MP .
But then an emergency occurs: a rescue helicopter brings a four-year-old girl to the clinic, apparently lifeless, with a body temperature of only 18.4 ° C. A hopeless case, because the little one was under water for almost 30 minutes. A comparable rescue has never been achieved. Although he has never operated on a child before, the hospital equipment proves to be unsuitable and his more experienced colleagues see no hope of rescue, Höchstmann takes on the fight for the patient's life. After an operation lasting fifteen hours, he and his team finally manage to keep little Katharina alive. Contrary to all predictions, she wakes up from the coma after a few days and becomes completely healthy again.
publication
On October 5, 2011, “The Miracle of Carinthia” celebrated its premiere as part of the Hamburg Film Festival . The first broadcast took place on January 18, 2012 on ORF 2 and achieved an audience rating of over one million among Austrian viewers. On March 5, 2012, approximately 5.8 million viewers saw the film on ZDF .
Reviews
“A miracle can be so exciting,” summarizes the Kleine Zeitung .
"Exciting as a thriller, directed straightforward and without pathos Andreas Prochaska this medical drama based on a true story," writes Kino.de .
“And Ken Duken is ideal for this work hero. Julia Koschitz is also flawless, ” says TV critic Rainer Tittelbach .
"Keeping the tension so high in a story like this shows the great skill of everyone involved," praised TV Spielfilm
Awards
- International Emmy Award 2013 in the category: TV Movie / Mini-Series
- Nomination for the producer award at the Hamburg Film Festival 2011 in the section “16: 9”.
- Romy 2012 for Sam Davis and Klaus Graf as best TV producer, Christoph Silber and Thorsten Wettcke for best screenplay.
- Bavarian TV Prize 2012 for Andreas Prochaska in the category director .
- German Actor Award 2013 of the BFFS for Gerti Drassl as best supporting actress
- Nomination for Günter Rohrbach Film Prize 2012
- Günter Rohrbach Film Prize 2012, Special Prize from the Lord Mayor for Gerti Drassl and Gerhard Liebmann
- Nomination for the Grimme Prize 2013 in the fiction category
- Nomination for the Prix Europa 2012
- Nomination for Andreas Prochaska for the Director's Prize Metropolis 2012 of the BVR
- Nominated by ORF as a competition film at the Baden-Baden TV Film Festival 2012
Web links
- A day for a miracle in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The miracle of Carinthia in the online film database
- Website for the film at Rowboat Film- und Fernsehproduktion
Individual evidence
- ↑ Luck was with the doctors. Article about the doctor Dr. Markus Thalmann and about the original incident in the Kleine Zeitung (January 17, 2012). Retrieved April 24, 2017.
- ↑ Report in the press : Emmy for Prochaska's “Miracle of Carinthia” , accessed on November 26, 2013.
- ↑ A miracle can be so exciting . In: Small newspaper . January 17, 2012. Retrieved April 24, 2017.
- ↑ a day for a miracle In: Kino.de . Retrieved March 1, 2012.
- ↑ TV film “The miracle of Carinthia” In: tittelbach.tv . Retrieved March 2, 2012.
- ↑ The miracle of Carinthia In: TV feature film . Retrieved September 5, 2014
- ↑ Emmy® Awards website: Official website ( Memento of the original from December 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed October 26, 2013.
- ↑ International Emmys: ZDF medical drama and RTL maker award-winning at spiegel.de, accessed on September 5, 2014.
