Dolphin summer
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Dolphin summer |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2004 |
| length | 85 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jobst Oetzmann |
| script | Regine Bielefeldt |
| production | Michaela Nix |
| music |
Fabian Römer Dieter Schleip |
| camera | Volker Tittel |
| cut | Christel Suckow |
| occupation | |
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Delphinsommer is a German television film by Jobst Oetzmann from 2004. It is about Nathalie Wagner, who grows into a religious community and questions it through external influences. It was screened at the Hof International Film Festival on October 28, 2004 , before being broadcast on television in 2005.
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When Nathalie was two years old, her parents Caroline and Michael Scholl separated. After Caroline married the lawyer Gregor Wagner, a committed member of the "Church of the Lord" two years later, Michael tried to regain custody of his daughter, but failed in court, and Caroline cut off all contact between father and father from then on Daughter. The Wagner family lived near Stuttgart, where Nathalie attended a nuns' school. At sixteen Nathalie had a half-sister.
Sarah is still a baby when Gregor Wagner moves to Berlin with his wife and children as a leading member of the “Church of the Lord”.
Nathalie changes to a state high school. She does not take part in the dance gymnastics and refuses to read the book that the class takes in German lessons - Crazy by Benjamin Lebert - because modern literature is frowned upon in the “Church of the Lord”. Accordingly, Nathalie does not go to the cinema with the class to see the film adaptation of the novel . Nathalie also differs from her classmates through her old-fashioned clothing, who also marginalize her. Only the doctor's son Gabriel and the Turkish woman Yildiz try to come into contact with Nathalie, but are repeatedly blocked by her.
Friendships with people who do not belong to your own religious community are not welcomed in the “Church of the Lord”. Instead of Yildiz or Gabriel, Nathalie becomes friends with Sibille, who is of the same age and who no longer goes to school but has to work in a chip shop. Sibille rebels against the tutelage in the "Church of the Lord". She would like to become a nurse and is determined to leave her embittered mother Margot and the Church as soon as she comes of age.
Caroline takes Nathalie to proselytizing. You ring the doorbell for a woman who has just lost her mother. Caroline lies that she can understand the pain of the other because her mother died of the same disease. Nathalie later confronts her mother in horror. Caroline replies: "Sometimes the quickest way to find the truth is through a lie."
Once when Nathalie was sitting on a plant bench, a man spoke to her. It's her father Michael Scholl. After finding out that she was in Berlin, he called all the schools until he found her. He congratulated his daughter, who turned seventeen that day, on her birthday and gave her a card with the address of the café he ran. Then he says goodbye again, because he feels how distraught Nathalie reacts to the encounter. Then Gabriel, who found out that it is her birthday, gives her a small silver bracelet with two little dolphins on it.
Gabriel, who continues to take care of Nathalie, gets to know Sibille through her. To help Sibille, he talks to his parents, who open up a training position for them in a hospital in Zurich and get her a train ticket. But Margot discovers the train ticket, locks Sibille up and alerts “brother” Gregor. Desperate, Sibille rushes out of the window.
Shocked by the death of her friend, Nathalie gossips with her parents. So Gregor learns that she knew about Sibille's plans and did not tell him or any other member of the "Church of the Lord" about them. Because of Nathalie's misconduct, he was unable to get Sibille back on track in time. That's why Nathalie was to blame for Sibille's suicide, he claims.
Together with Gabriel, Nathalie visits her father. Gregor finds out about this, beats his stepdaughter and locks her up. When she was arrested again because she had taken part in dance gymnastics at school, she ran away and sought refuge with Michael, but Gregor had the police pick her up from there and reported Michael. Again Nathalie is beaten and locked up.
Caroline is shocked by the abuse of her daughter. She unlocks Nathalie's door, says goodbye to her and lets Gregor take the baby to a clinic with the baby under the pretext that Sarah is sick so that Nathalie can be picked up by Michael and Gabriel. Only in the hospital does Caroline confess to her husband that she has deceived him.
Awards
Birge Schade in 2005 received the German Television Award as Best Actress in a supporting role , at the same time for Hotte in Paradise (2003) and Katzenzungen (2003).
Web links
- Delphinsommer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dolphin Summer. In: filmportal.de . German Film Institute , accessed on October 24, 2018 .