The November man
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The November man |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2007 |
| length | 89 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jobst Oetzmann |
| script | Magnus Vattrodt |
| production |
Michael André Iris Kiefer Andreas Schreitmüller |
| music | Fabian Römer |
| camera | Volker Tittel |
| cut | Cosima Fast |
| occupation | |
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Novembermann is a German television film from 2007. Directed by Jobst Oetzmann , Götz George and Burghart Klaußner play the leading roles . The screenplay was written by Magnus Vattrodt , who had already written the radio play of the same name, which was broadcast for the first time in 2004 on Südwestrundfunk . Here, too, Jobst Oetzmann directed.
action
For years, Lena, the wife of the Protestant pastor Hermann Droemer in the Ruhr area, has been traveling alone to Tuscany for a month in November to visit a friend. At least the family believes that. But this time Lena is killed in a bus accident, but not in the direction of Tuscany, but far north, near Bremen . Hermann puzzles the death of his wife, especially since a few days later a holiday card arrives from her from Tuscany. A phone call with the girlfriend finally makes it clear that the trips to Italy were only fake.
Hermann comes across a key, a ring and an address on Sylt in his wife's estate and goes on a search for the truth. He finds out that every November Lena went to see a lover named Henry. This is a former photographer who is blind, lives in a house on Sylt and gives piano lessons there.
Hermann poses as a piano student and gets to know Henry as a weird, bizarre man with a special esprit and an insatiable hunger for life. He waits impatiently for Lena, because he doesn't know anything about her accidental death. When asked about his name, Hermann calls himself “ Bauknecht ” when it comes to household appliances , which seems to suit Henry because of the priest's translucent domesticity and the distant past. An unusual and ambivalent relationship develops between the two men. Although the truth is painful for Hermann and he feels angry at Henry, he now gets to know Lena in a different way. He also learns that she would never have given up her marriage and that Henry was “only” her “November man”. Despite all the differences in their nature, Hermann and Henry share a love for Lena.
The daughter of Lena and Hermann Droemer appears on the island with her child. Hermann is too busy with himself to notice the marital problems his daughter has indicated. Waiting for Lena wears down Henry more and more. Hermann, for his part, has learned enough and wants to leave the island. Before doing this, he leaves the ring found in Lena's estate in Henry's mailbox and watches how he interprets it as a supposed separation symbol and breaks it inside.
When Hermann happened to find out from a piano student on the way back that the lesson had been canceled, he intuitively returned to Henry's house. He prevents the feared suicide attempt and brings Henry to Lena's grave. He also learns that "Bauknecht" was Lena's husband. Together they drive back to the North Sea with the urn containing Lena's ashes and scatter the ashes into the sea.
criticism
"The drama of an unusual love triangle, in the course of which the men initially hate and dislike, but then something like sympathy."
Web links
- The November Man in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Dieter Wunderlich: "The November Man" (full table of contents)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The November man. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .