The cold sky
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| Original title | The cold sky |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2011 |
| length | both parts total 179 minutes |
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| Director | Johannes Fabrick |
| script | Andrea Stoll |
| production | Wolfgang Jurgan |
| music | Dieter Schleip |
| camera | Stefan Unterberger |
| cut | Sandy Saffeels |
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The cold sky is a two-part television film by director Johannes Fabrick . Andrea Stoll wrote the script . Christine Neubauer is cast in the leading role. The premiere took place on 3 January 2011 at the First and on January 4, 2011 in Austria.
action
A rural community in the Hallertau in autumn 1967 . Six-year-old Felix, the third child of the Moosbacher hop-growing family, is about to start school. But the behavior of the initially noticeably quiet and reserved boy is becoming increasingly puzzling. There are more and more situations in which he does not seem to be aware of his surroundings at all, he does not react to speech and avoids eye contact. Already on the first day of school it becomes apparent that it is impossible for Felix to fit into the class community.
Most in the village see his conspicuous behavior as simply poor upbringing. The superstitious grandmother even suspects an obsession and organizes an expulsion of demons with the Catholic priest. Finally, Felix's father Paul, who is fighting for his economic existence, wants to solve the problem by taking Felix to the auxiliary school on the recommendation of the headmaster .
Only Felix's mother Marie is convinced that Felix is neither stupid nor badly brought up, and points out his abilities: He can count and read perfectly without any school lessons, knows all the weather reports of the last year by heart and deals with complicated games of numbers and forms . But she too has to understand that Felix's eccentric behavior creates problems.
A brief relief comes from Alex, the new cantor in the village from Berlin . Felix is fascinated by her music, he also feels the freedom in her to be allowed to be who he is. But a woman as a full-time cantor, who is also visibly close to the hippie culture, is a scandal in rural Bavaria in the 1960s. Before Alex loses her position as a cantor and returns to Berlin, she introduces Marie to Niklas Cromer, an idealistic young doctor from Berlin who specializes in child and adolescent psychiatry .
On Niklas' advice, Marie travels to Munich with Felix to have him examined by qualified doctors, but that turns into a fiasco. Even these cannot classify his behavior and diagnose schizophrenia , rage and aggression after the initially calm Felix lashed out in panic in a threatening situation. Marie can barely prevent his admission to the closed psychiatry.
After all, Marie sees no other way out than to make the long journey with Felix to Berlin , where Niklas practices. He left her his address.
The second part of the film describes the events in Berlin that put Marie in undreamt-of distress: Apart from the fact that the examinations for a qualified diagnosis take much longer than the one week that Paul allowed them to travel, she has to find out that psychiatric treatments are not covered by health insurance. In order to earn the necessary money, Marie takes jobs as a waitress, first in an inn, then in a nightclub, although Felix cannot actually stay alone. Fortunately for her, she finds accommodation in the commune where Alex now lives. Felix is very good at being with the children who live there without prejudice. But the marriage with Paul gets into a crisis. He openly accuses Marie of neglecting her other children in her commitment to Felix and of tearing up the family.
Niklas deals with Felix's special personality in long sessions and gradually analyzes his behavior: Felix's striking mathematical abilities, his types of self-employment, his synaesthetic perception of numbers. When he finally discovered that Felix had represented a piece of music in the form of rows of numbers as a kind of musical notation, he called in another specialist. He can then tell Marie and Paul, who joined the group the day before, that Felix has some form of Asperger's Syndrome and is highly gifted, but that, on the other hand, his behavior cannot be cured and that Felix will be dependent on care for the rest of his life. Disappointed, the Moosbachers turn to leave. When she leaves the next day, Niklas advises a newly opened school in Nuremberg, where Felix can receive targeted support.
When the Moosbachers return home, Paul's father Xaver informs them that he and his wife have decided to give Paul the entire farm as a gift - also out of a guilty conscience about the unjust treatment that Felix was exposed to. This makes it possible to finance Felix's further funding.
criticism
"Solid but conventionally staged, the film gives an insight into how difficult and stressful diagnosis and treatment of Asperger's Syndrome are in children, with a depth and plausibility that can forgive some bumpy action."
“This drama, which seldom seeks the melodramatic and also does not carry out the classic triangular conflict on the child's back, is big television […]. Even if in the second part the fight of the mother, in accordance with Christine Neubauer, takes center stage, the story never loses sight of the boy's fate. And even if the Neubauer is caught in an image that runs counter to the film and could make her participation counterproductive, she is optimally cast in the role of the Bavarian mother. "
Awards
- Nomination for the German Television Award 2011 in the category Best Multi-Part
Web links
- The cold sky in the Internet Movie Database (English)