Shared happiness
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Shared happiness |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2010 |
| length | 89 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Thomas Freundner |
| script | Stefan Dähnert |
| production |
Alicia Remirez , Sigi Kamml |
| music | Joachim J. Gerndt |
| camera | Benjamin Dernbecher |
| cut | Melanie Margalith |
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The shared happiness is a German TV film by director Thomas Freundner from 2010. The screenplay was written by Stefan Dähnert . Petra Schmidt-Schaller and Udo Wachtveitl play the leading roles in the humorous drama about the swapped children of two families living in different social backgrounds .
action
Nicole Wagner lives with the scaffolding builder Grille and three children from relationships with different men in poor conditions in a high-rise building complex in Freiburg . When Dennis, the couple's son, needs a blood transfusion, it turns out that he cannot be Grille's biological child. Because he believes that Nicole has betrayed him, Grille leaves the family and moves to Biggi, the takeaway seller. Nicole is sure that Grille must be the father of her child. A blood test at the clinic shows that she cannot be Dennis' mother either. She believes that the newborns have been mixed up and is given the address of the other woman who, nine years ago, gave birth to a child there at the same time as her: the musician Britta Callenberg is married to a lawyer and lives in an elegant family house. Her son Sebastian is a sheltered only child. After Nicole Wagner made contact with her, Britta Callenberg arranged a maternity test, which confirmed the mix-up between the children. Grille then ruefully returns to Nicole.
While the Callenbergs think about how to gently teach Sebastian that he is not their biological child, Grille calls this after his Dennis at football, when his performance does not meet his father's expectations. At a meeting in the Callenbergs' house, the two families get to know each other better and agree not to change anything in the previous situation. But the lawyer Sven Callenberg does not want to come to terms with the fact that his biological son is growing up in poverty and applies to the family court for his surrender. However, the authority stipulates that both children should initially move to their birth parents for three months.
The boys now have to find their way in each other's strange world. Dennis offends the Callenbergs with his television consumption, dialect and bad manners, but to Britta's delight he plays the cello spontaneously, as she did during her pregnancy. Sebastian delights Grille with good performances in football. He is unhappy with his 3− in math work, but is celebrated as a nerd by the new family. Otherwise he will have a hard time asserting himself there. One evening he flees back to the Callenbergs. Nicole wants to bring him back, but when she sees how well the children are there, she spontaneously decides to put her son up for adoption. Grille is angry about this and leaves the family again.
Britta wants to get back to work. She offers Nicole an apartment near her house and hires her as a nanny and housekeeper. Nicole takes part in the family life of the Callenbergs. After attending an event together, there is intimacy between Nicole and Sven, which is not hidden from the other family members. The arrangement made then fell through, and the adoption was not yet legally binding. While Ms. Metzler from the youth welfare office fetches Sebastian from the Callenbergs, Sven and Grille have a fight in front of the house. The family court determines that the children come permanently to their birth parents. Until the decision is final, which can take years, they will remain where they grew up and should have contact with both parents. At 14 you should be able to decide for yourself where you want to live.
In the final picture, Dennis and Sebastian discuss their family relationships: Britta and Sven Callenberg are planning a divorce, Nicole and Grille their marriage.
subjects
By confronting the two families from different milieus , the film demonstrates the unequal living conditions of children in Germany. According to the scriptwriter, in no other Western European country are life chances so dependent on origin . The social position is also underlined by the use of the dialect: While the lower-class family speaks Baden dialect , the lawyers ' family speaks High German .
background
production
The shared happiness was produced by Producers at Work for Südwestrundfunk . The shooting took place from November 3rd to December 9th, 2009 in Freiburg and Berlin . In Freiburg, the film was shot in the rectorate of the university , which represents the youth welfare office in the film, on scaffolding at the cathedral , on the Schlossberg and in the Weingarten district . In addition to some exterior shots, most of the interior shots were taken in Berlin.
occupation
Udo Wachtveitl had played leading roles for director Thomas Freundner since 1997 in three Tatort episodes and in the television film Juli mit Delfin . Wachtveitl influenced the script in order to make the character of the lawyer Callenberg appear "not too one-dimensional" .
The Kurpfälzer Rüdiger Klink had to assert himself in a casting against other dialect speakers, because the role of Grille was intended as a dialect role from the start. Petra Schmidt-Schaller's role, on the other hand, was not originally written in dialect, but was translated into Baden dialect at her request, which the Berlin actress appropriated for this role. Schmidt-Schaller had already played a leading role in 2008 in Tatort Bluthochzeit, which was also written by Stefan Dähnert for SWR .
The Freiburg student Andreas Warmbrunn, born in 1999, stood in front of the camera for the first time for Das shared Glück . He had applied for a casting for the SWR, which he won. He later got another role as Sid in Hermione Huntgeburth's 2010 movie Tom Sawyer . Ludwig Skuras, born in 1998, had his first experience of turning earlier, including in Henri 4 .
publication
The film premiered on June 26, 2010 at the Munich Film Festival in the competition for the Bernd Burgemeister TV Prize . On November 5th and 6th, 2010 it was shown at the Biberach Film Festival . The divided happiness was also in the competition at the Filmschau Baden-Württemberg 2010 . The television broadcast as a Wednesday film in the main evening program of the first took place on February 2, 2011. The film reached an average of 5.5 million viewers and a market share of 16.4%. It was thus well above the average otherwise achieved at this broadcasting slot.
Edel Germany publishes Das shared Glück from April 2012 on DVD in its series Awarded! - The winning film edition .
reception
TV magazines and the daily press rated the film mostly positively. The verdict for TV Spielfilm was : “Touching topic, well played” Barbara Sichtermann called the film in the Tagesspiegel a “meritorious and enjoyable social drama on the class problem”, which offers an “all-round successful mixture of gripping drama, double milieu study and sensitive drawing of people” "Stand out from the monotony of the usual movie entertainment". “'Das shared Glück' […] tells an unlikely story, but presents the characters who prove themselves in this conflict or who despair of it, so likely, so believable and so beautifully broken, as one otherwise only knows from reality. The film has fine-tuning, tension and depth and even humor, everything is right. "
On the occasion of the first TV broadcast, the star published a double-page cover story about Petra Schmidt-Schaller in its TV supplement of issue 5/2011, in which her convincing , very touching game was certified. In his review of the “very good” television film, taz employee Jens Müller also praised Petra Schmidt-Schaller in particular and demanded that her performance be given “all the film prizes the country has to offer”. In addition to the “outstanding” Ulrike Grote, Udo Wachtveitl and Rüdiger Klink, she is “outstanding” and with the “thoroughly emphatic, credible, truthful” portrayal of the “agonizing disruption of her lower-class mother”, she keeps her figure from the cliché trap. The reviewer of the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung and Tilmann P. Gangloff said that Petra Schmidt-Schaller and Rüdiger Klink played “the proletarian couple, especially because of the dialect, incredibly convincing.” That they accept the film's “seemingly constructed constellation” , is "not least due to the excellent actors". The story also works dramaturgically, as screenwriter Stefan Dähnert turns it into a three-act act by skillfully hitting decisive hooks several times.
The critic Rainer Tittelbach certified the leading actresses, above all Petra Schmidt-Schaller, "great class". Even if the SWR production is aesthetically and dramatically “not a big film”, it is nevertheless socio-politically relevant, “gripping and disturbing”. The child actors also received multiple praise.
Awards
At the Biberach Film Festival 2010, Das shared Glück won the TV beaver , the award in the competition for TV films. The jury, consisting of Rita Serra-Roll, Barbara Beauvais and Jürgen Bretzinger , described the film as a “modern version of the ' Caucasian chalk circle ' that is told with the courage to use humor” and “because of its regional reference and which is seldom part of German television films Dialect a high authenticity ”. "Gorgeous actors, an intelligent screenplay and a director who cleverly uses these strengths result in an outstanding and award-winning television film."
For her role, Petra Schmidt-Schaller received the German Actor Award, which was awarded for the first time in 2012, in the female lead category, as well as a nomination for the German Television Award 2011 in the Best Actress category .
Web links
- The shared happiness ( Memento from January 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) - DasErste.de FilmWittwoch
- The split luck in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The shared happiness at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Das shared Glück . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , March 2012 (PDF; test number: 131 818 V).
- ↑ a b c d e SWR press kit for the film (PDF file, accessed on August 31, 2012 at http://www.swr.de/unternehmen/presse/-/id=7817640/property=download/nid=4224 /bofr7d/index.pdf ( page no longer available , search in web archives ))
- ^ "Tatort" actor Udo Wachtveitl is shooting in Freiburg , Badische Zeitung from November 3, 2009
- ↑ a b Tilmann P. Gangloff: TV tip of the day: “Das teilte Glück” (ARD) , evangelisch.de from February 2, 2011
- ^ Andreas Braun: Little man in "shared happiness" , Badische Zeitung of February 1, 2011, accessed on February 2, 2011
- ^ The shared happiness ( memento of November 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) at the Biberach Film Festival
- ↑ cf. Program of the Filmschau Baden-Württemberg 2010 ( online , PDF, 4.5 MB, accessed on August 31, 2012)
- ↑ Primetime check: Wednesday, February 2, 2011 ,quotemeter.de, accessed on February 3, 2011
- ↑ Trailer on Youtube , accessed on March 14, 2012
- ↑ The shared happiness on TV Spielfilm , accessed on August 31, 2012
- ↑ Barbara Sichtermann : The double chalk circle , Der Tagesspiegel from February 1, 2011, accessed on February 4, 2011
- ^ Sabine Schneider: Precarious Conditions. In: Stern TV magazine, supplement to Stern 5/2011
- ↑ Arschgeweih or Cello Lessons , taz from February 2, 2011, accessed on February 4, 2011
- ↑ Frank Jürgens: Beloved Cuckoo Children ( Memento of the original from July 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung from February 1, 2011, accessed on February 4, 2011
- ^ Rainer Tittelbach: TV film "Das teilte Glück" , accessed on February 4, 2011
- ↑ The shared happiness. In: prisma.de. prisma-Verlag , accessed on September 9, 2017 .
- ↑ Wilfried Geldner / teleschau - the media service: Cello instead of telly! ( 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. , accessed February 9, 2011
- ↑ Six beavers for filmmakers ( 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. (PDF; 36 kB), accessed on November 8, 2010
