My sister's father
| Movie | |
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| Original title | My sister's father |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2005 |
| length | 86 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Christoph Stark |
| script |
Jochen Bitzer Christoph Stark |
| production |
Nico Hofmann Christian Rohde |
| music | Thomas Osterhoff |
| camera | Jochen Stäblein |
| cut | Silvia Nawrot |
| occupation | |
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My sister's father is a German TV film by director Christoph Stark from 2005. The family drama starring Ludwig Blochberger , Katharina Schüttler and Christian Berkel deals with an adolescent who discovers that his father, believed dead, is still alive and himself has a half sister.
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The 20-year-old Paul lives with his single mother in Munich. As a child, she told him that his father had died in India before he was born. At the age of 17, Paul ran away from home to see his father's grave in India, but the police picked him up at the airport and brought him back to his mother. For this breakaway attempt, Paul had lost his apprenticeship position at the time and is now in a second apprenticeship as a chef, which he should complete shortly. His spirited boss seems to be the only father figure in his life.
A few weeks before his final exam, Paul is shaken by a confession from his mother. She first tells her son that she will marry her significant other soon and that she wants to move out. Then she confesses to Paul that over the years she had said wrong things about her father, who supposedly died. He actually lives very close by and works as a doctor in a local hospital. The disturbed Paul locates his father's house and sees in the dark how he is there with his new wife and a daughter in the living room. Paul goes away again without revealing himself.
On a later day Paul visits his father Klaus in his clinic. He speaks to him and lets it through that he is his son. They both meet days later in Paul's local pub. But the meeting does not go as Paul had hoped. His father is nice and friendly, but refuses further contact with Paul. His new wife knows nothing about an illegitimate son. Should she find out about this, she would probably blame him for years of deception. The meeting ends without them arranging a new meeting, and it seems to be over for the father. After this frustrating experience, Paul begins to spy on his father.
He particularly focuses on his daughter Susa, who is only slightly younger than Paul himself. When Klaus takes his daughter into town by car, Paul follows him on his motorcycle. He follows her to a clothing store, where he watches her so that she thinks he is a salesman. He recommends a jacket to her, which she then tries on and buys with satisfaction. Soon he surprisingly meets her again in this jacket in his local pub and speaks to her. His half-sister shows interest in him without realizing that he is her half-brother. She also takes him home with her when her parents are away. Susa ignores the fact that Paul is obviously much more interested in his colleague, the cook Lucy, and has no idea that Paul is only happy to meet her, his half-sister, as a link to their father. Paul wants an even more intensive relationship with the Merbold family and therefore invites Susa to dinner with her parents. Paul, knowing from his mother that his father likes poultry, prepares quail as the main course .
In the following key scene of the film, the main participants meet in Paul's living room for dinner. Klaus, who surprisingly got into this situation, doesn't like this at all, but he has to play along in order not to give himself away. Susa's mother, open to Paul, learns from him during a conversation that his father does not care about him because he has a family that knows nothing about him and should not find out anything. Susa and her mother are horrified and condemn this cowardly father without knowing who it is. Klaus, condemned to be mute, is however sympathetically defended by Paul, with hidden amusement. However, Paul develops more and more traits of revenge. Susa's love for Paul finally leads to a violent escalation, as Klaus fears that incest will occur between the two .
background
The film was produced under the working title Der Verführer by teamWorx on behalf of Bavarian TV and Südwestrundfunk, as well as in collaboration with ARTE . The filming locations were in Ampfing and Munich .
The film premiered at the Munich Film Festival on June 26, 2005. The film was first broadcast on August 23, 2005 on ARTE.
The initial situation around the fatherless growing up seems quite Freudian inspired ( Oedipus conflict ). The alleged death in India suggests a wild (hippie) past that we don't hear about. Paul's final ruse has a literary tradition, see z. B. the baroque fairy tale Sapia .
criticism
"Youth drama about lies in life, the struggle for recognition and love and, last but not least, for the right to truth that wants to be endured despite all bitterness."
“A depressing film […] But the television film, sensitively staged by Christoph Stark […], is not just a film about collective isolation in our modern blended society. Above all, it is a film about false considerations and the fatal long-term effects of well-intentioned lies. [...] A theatrical game in the best sense of the word, the likes of which one rarely sees it on television in this intensity. "
Awards
Ludwig Blochberger was nominated in 2005 for the Undine Award as best young character actor. The caster Nessie Nesslauer was proposed for the Adolf Grimme Prize in 2006 , among other things for her cast work for My Sister's Father .
Web links
- The father of my sister in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ locations. Internet Movie Database , accessed May 22, 2015 .
- ↑ Evangelical Church in Germany - The Father of My Sister (Drama) ( Memento of the original from May 17, 2012 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.
- ↑ My sister's father ( Memento of the original from February 17, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. arte.de
- ↑ My sister's father. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ a b Well-intentioned lies . In: Berliner Zeitung , March 8, 2006
