The wish list
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| Original title | The wish list |
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| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2018 |
| length | 89 minutes |
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| Director | Marc Rensing |
| script | Martina Mouchot |
| production | Karl-Eberhard Schäfer Norbert Walter |
| music | Stefan Schulzki |
| camera | Lars R. Liebold |
| cut | Guido Krajewski |
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The Wish List is a German TV film by director Marc Rensing from 2018. The tragicomedy is based on a script by Martina Mouchot and is about the single Frankfurt security officer Pauline, portrayed by Anne Schäfer , who has a handwritten wish list about the destitute widower Daniel and his The children Leo and Lotte get to know and invite them to spend Christmas with her and her family in the parents' house, so that Daniel can be introduced to the relatives as their new friend.
The ARD Degeto commissioned production was realized by U5 Filmproduktion for Das Erste and shot from November to December 2017 in Frankfurt am Main, Bad Homburg vor der Höhe and the surrounding area. In addition to Schäfer, Sebastian Ströbel , Lena Stolze , Hans-Uwe Bauer , Jasmin Schwiers , Helgi Schmid , Annika Kuhl , Patrick Güldenberg and Leander Menzel appeared in front of the camera of the ensemble film . TV critics rated The Wish List before its pre-Christmas first broadcast during prime time on December 7, 2018, largely positive.
action
Frankfurt am Main, shortly before Christmas Eve . Single Pauline Schwebe looks disgruntled about the upcoming holidays with her family. After a failed relationship that drove her into financial ruin, the law enforcement officer has lived alone for many years and is considered difficult to place by her parents and siblings. When she discovers a handwritten wish list while working on a traffic light pole, she finds a like-minded person in its sender: the seven-year-old Leo Golombeck wishes a "lonely soul" to visit him for Christmas, who celebrates Christmas Eve with his family and presents gifts in return for the kids.
When Pauline arrives at the Golombeck's with the note in hand, she makes the acquaintance of Leo's older sister Lotte and his father Daniel, a carpenter who raises the children on his own after his wife's death from cancer. The penniless family is sympathetic to her right away and Leo believes that Pauline is the fulfillment of his Christmas wish. During a subsequent visit to her parents, there is a scandal. Pauline, confronted again with the allegations of her concerned parents, pretends to have a relationship with Daniel. When Wanda and Birger unexpectedly invite their long-awaited future son- in-law to Christmas, Pauline sees herself pushed into a corner and decides to invite the Golombecks to the celebrations in the Schwebe house, provided that Daniel slips into the role of their friend.
When they arrive at home, the two have to prove themselves as a supposed couple and ask the curious questions of the family members. They sometimes have their own worries of their own: Pauline's career-oriented brother Benjamin and his equally ambitious and successful wife Bettina have been working on family planning for some time - while Bettina does not tell her husband that she is secretly taking birth control pills to prevent pregnancy. Baby Caro has meanwhile found happiness in the family with the Icelander Jon and her two children from previous relationships. She wants another child from her partner, but he does not dare to confess to her that he is impotent . Wanda and Birger are planning to move out of their house and would like one of their children to take it over.
When Leo chokes in a corner after Christmas dinner and passes out, Daniel sets off with him in the direction of the hospital, where the entire family meets a little later. While Leo can be discharged unscathed, Pauline sees her suspicion that Birger is seriously ill confirmed after a confidential greeting from her father by the treating doctor. When she confronts him the following morning, she can no longer maintain her own facade and confesses to the family that she lied. In return, Birger reveals that not he, but Wanda is sick and has to undergo palliative therapy in northern Germany. Her mother then encourages Pauline to speak to Daniel and give the acquaintance a chance. At home at the Golombecks' house, the two finally kiss.
A year later, the two of them moved into Wanda and Birger's house together with Leo and Lotte, where the family comes together again for Christmas. Bettina is now pregnant by Benjamin and Caro has moved to Iceland with Jon and the children. Like Birger and Wanda, who is marked by illness, they travel to the family festival especially. When Pauline passes the same traffic light pole as last year, she again discovers a wish list from Leo, in which he does not express a new wish, but thanks Santa Claus for the events of the previous year.
background
Author Martina Mouchot was largely inspired by film producer Norbert Walter for the screenplay of The Wish List . Walter originally envisioned a modern interpretation of the British Christmas classic The Little Lord (1980). Mouchot, who no longer considered overcoming class differences as the central theme of a Christmas film to be “particularly sustainable”, decided to use tried-and-tested patterns from the film such as “humanity, the realization that you want to change yourself for the better, family healing, the pure happy ending “To be adapted and to tell them under everyday conditions. From the start, she had a family story in mind with a comedic and less melodramatic background. Working with editor Barbara Süssmann also resulted in the decision to add some magical, fairytale-like elements to The Wishlist with a wink.
Walter was able to win over director Marc Rensing for the realization of the script . Rensing described a "large, chamber-style ensemble piece like The Wish List as a challenge and therefore intrinsically interesting" and found Mouchot's script to be a "wonderful template with incredibly amusing dialogues and lots of emotion". The cast of the film turned out to be relatively complex due to the large ensemble. Caster Gitta Uhlig, who died before the film was broadcast, and Rensing decided to cast actors "whom the viewer has not seen a million times in similar roles" and who did not convey the feeling that one knew "in a minute." three [...] how it all ends ”.
Produced The wish of the U5 film production on behalf of ARD Degeto for First . In addition to Walter, Karl-Eberhard Schäfer also appeared as a producer. Sussmann was the editor. The shooting of the film began on November 16, 2017 in Frankfurt am Main and the surrounding area and lasted until December 20, 2017. In the metropolis on the Main , the Römer Christmas market , the airport , a residential building on Ortenberger Strasse in the Bornheimer Hang settlement and upper Berger Strasse served as the backdrop. In neighboring Bad Homburg , not far from the Schulberg, further scenes were created at a crossing. The music for the film steered composer Stefan Schulzki at. Among the carols that are heard throughout the film, including Matteo Branca Leonis rendition of " Santa Claus Is Coming to Town ," Yeah Yeah Yeahss "All I Want for Christmas", Stevie Wonder's "What Christmas Means to Me", The Harmaleighs "Every Single Night", Ronan Keating's "Winter Song" and "Everything's Gonna Be Cool This Christmas" by Eels .
Reviews
Rainer Tittelbach from Tittelbach.tv found that The Wish List was a somewhat “different Christmas film”, but that it had “what it takes to be a December television movie”. The Kammerspiel offers a “life-wise script” in which Mouchot finds “the right mix of Christmas magic and irony, of moments of longing and closeness to reality”. The story admitted “to the emotional tradition of this feast of festivals, and it shows both the possibilities and the limits of family. The viewer is confronted with the most varied of tones and emotions. The cast is superb, the staging tasteful, the music of high quality. A drama that is very coherent in every detail. Conclusion: simply beautiful ".
Prisma reviewer Eric Leimann described the production as a “real Christmas highlight”. The initially “rather inconspicuous Friday comedy” was “brilliantly written, really well played - and wonderfully warm-hearted”. The production also shows once again that “a good script is the key to success”: “How this family film goes from a well-worn plot to great storytelling in a very unspectacular manner, how it takes eight adult characters and a few children in just 90 minutes Portrayed so well that one would like to follow the ensemble in the form of a series or row - that's just good. As long as Christmas films like this are still being made, neither the 'light German television film' nor the festival of love is lost ”.
"A modern Christmas film with a lot of romance and a touch of Charles Dickens ", summed up Wolfgang Platzeck, editor at Berliner Morgenpost . The television film tells “a magical Christmas story that takes place in today's less contemplative everyday life [...] and is true to all those topics that guarantee Christmas classics such as The Little Lord or Frank Capras Is Life Not Beautiful across times and fashions ". Platzeck also found praise for the "great" cast with Lena Stolze and Hans-Uwe Bauer in the roles of Pauline's parents as well as the excellent selection of music, which reinforced the "character of a contemporary fairy tale" but did not "put pressure on the tear ducts". The wish list gets along "without any kitschy drama".
Tilmann P. Gangloff judged in the Stuttgarter Zeitung that the film was "a heartfelt, but not all-round successful Christmas tragic comedy", which "followed the usual patterns all too much right down to the emotional pop songs". The material is based on “tried and tested comedy recipes” and despite “typical film characters” and “somewhat thickly applied dramatic elements”, it offers entertainment and amusement, “especially since scriptwriter Martina Mouchot provides her characters with a lot of funny dialogues, but the plot also seems constructed and exaggerated” . After all, “the actors were all convincing in their roles. The wish list is especially worth seeing because of Anne Schäfer ”.
success
The Wishlist celebrated on December 7, 2018 as part of the ARD series last Friday in the First in First Episode. With 4.81 million viewers and a 16.7 percent market share, the feature film secured prime-time market leadership on that day . In the advertising-relevant target group of 14 to 49 year olds, 790,000 viewers tuned in; this resulted in a market share of 9.9 percent.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Statement by Martina Mouchot . The first . Retrieved December 8, 2018.
- ↑ a b c d The first: Start of shooting for the magical Christmas film "The Wishlist" (AT) . Press portal. Retrieved December 8, 2018.
- ↑ a b questions to Marc Rensing . The first . Retrieved December 8, 2018.
- ↑ Turned off: “The Wishlist” (AT) . Degeto . Retrieved December 8, 2018.
- ↑ a b TV star alarm at our Christmas market . Bild.de . Retrieved December 8, 2018.
- ^ Rainer Tittelbach: TV film "The Wishlist" . Tittelbach.tv . Retrieved December 7, 2018.
- ↑ Eric Leimann: TV review . Prism . Retrieved December 7, 2018.
- ↑ Wolfgang Platzeck: The wish list . Berliner Morgenpost . Retrieved December 7, 2018.
- ^ Tilmann Gangloff: The wish list . Stuttgart newspaper . Retrieved December 7, 2018.
- ↑ Alexander Krei: ARD film "The Wishlist" leaves ZDF crime thrillers behind . dwdl .de. December 8, 2018. Retrieved December 8, 2018.
Web links
- The Wish List in the Internet Movie Database (English)