The scent of elderberry
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| Original title | The scent of elderberry |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2011 |
| length | 88 minutes |
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| Director | Petra Katharina Wagner |
| script | Edda Leesch |
| production | Iris pine |
| music | Helmut Zerlett |
| camera | Peter Polsak-Lohmann |
| cut | Andrea Fahning |
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The scent of elderberry is a German television - drama , which on behalf of ARD turned and for the first time on 24 June 2011 was broadcast. Melika Foroutan played the main role .
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When the successful restaurant critic Sofie Möller receives the news of the death of her grandmother Helene, with whom she grew up, she has to travel to Brunstorf , where she is confronted with her past. At the time she was an outsider and treated like a leper. For a long time Tom Sommer was her only friend and confidante, until he too preferred to be with the others.
When Sofie comes back to the place of her childhood for her grandmother's funeral, the old memories come back to life. Because she had to wear the clothes her grandmother made herself at the time, she was called "Motten-Sofie" by her classmates. The term was coined by Ute, who is now reviving it - to the chagrin of Sofie, who this time knows how to defend herself better.
Sofie also meets Tom again, with whom she was in love as a child, and accuses him of not confessing to her then or this time. Again and again there are disharmonies between the two, but it quickly becomes clear that they have missed each other over the years and their feelings for each other revive.
However, Sofie's negative childhood memories are not limited to her former classmates, but she has always had an extremely bad relationship with her mother Agnes, who left her in the lurch at the time. Finally, the two women talk about it and the mother tells Sofie how things actually happened back then: Agnes was only 19 when she became pregnant and Sofie's father was married elsewhere. When he found out about the pregnancy, he broke off contact. Mother Agnes then took refuge in her studies and work and traveled around the world for two years. Father Heinz threatened to disinherit Agnes and didn't want to see her anymore. That was why she visited Sofie so seldom.
Soon more family secrets will be revealed: because Agnes' supposed father only came home from Soviet captivity in October 1955, but she was born in April 1956, Agnes soon finds out that Heinz cannot be her biological father. And since then he was no longer the man to whom Sofie's grandmother was in love, who had decreed not to be buried next to her husband, but in another place, next to which a second grave was kept free. Finally Agnes finds out that this place is reserved for Pastor Sevenig, who is also her biological father.
The love between him and Helene arose in the spring of 1955, when the pastor started a new job in Brunstorf and nobody could have suspected that grandma’s husband Heinz would ever return home. The pastor tells Agnes about those days: “The air was filled with scent. The elder snowed. "
After a few days in her grandma's house, which should be cleared out and actually sold, Sofie wants to leave by bus. But Sofie lets the bus leave and at the last moment decides to stay.
Locations
The film was shot in Hamburg and on the listed ferry Siebeneichen . This cable ferry runs over the Elbe-Lübeck Canal and connects the towns of Siebeneichen and Fitzen . Other locations are in Brunstorf . These include the St. Elisabeth Church and the associated cemetery; both official Brunstorf cultural monuments . In addition, photos were taken on the Mühlenhof and the adjacent pond in Roseburg .
Audience ratings
After the film was seen by 5.14 million people when it was first broadcast in June 2011 and thus had a market share of 18.4 percent, the rerun shown in July 2013 reached another 3.81 million viewers and 15.7 percent Market share.
Reviews
"If the ARD thinks once again that the mandate of the public service also includes a young audience that otherwise does not belong to the circle of the careful, then something like" The scent of elderberry "comes out."
"(TV) family drama with romantic tendencies about the transformation of a young woman who gradually opens her emotional protective armor."
Trivia
In the text of the ARD film review, the home village of the family is called "Brunsdorf", apparently based on one of the filming locations, the village of Brunstorf. In the film, the song “Nursery Rhyme for Agnes” is sung and addressed several times, which begins with the words “There on the cemetery wall”. The text of the song was written by Eduard Mörike .
Web links
- The scent of elder in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Film review on the ARD website ( Memento from July 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ The scent of elderberry. In: Crew United . Retrieved August 20, 2019 .
- ↑ Brunstorf: The real beauty is just around the next corner. In: Bergedorfer Zeitung . September 24, 2011, accessed August 20, 2019 .
- ↑ Tree roots penetrated the masonry. In: Lübecker Nachrichten . December 8, 2017, accessed August 20, 2019 .
- ↑ Audience ratings: Melika Foroutan as an ARD trump card
- ↑ Review of the film atquotemeter.de
- ↑ The scent of elderberry. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Film review on the ARD website ( Memento from July 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ There on the churchyard wall (children's song for Agnes Hartlaub). In: Folk songs archive. Retrieved August 20, 2019 .