The last beautiful day

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Movie
Original title The last beautiful day
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2011
length 89 minutes
Rod
Director Johannes Fabrick
script Dorothee Schön
production Kirsten Hager
music Oliver Biehler
camera Helmut Pirnat
cut Monika Abspacher
occupation

The Last Beautiful Day is a German TV movie from 2011 . The film drama premiered at the Hofer Filmtage 2011 and was broadcast for the first time on January 18, 2012 on Das Erste .

action

The anesthetist Sibylle Langhoff lives a seemingly happy life with her husband Lars and their two children Maike and Piet, but that is deceptive. The young woman is depressed and doesn't know what to do with life.
On a sunny day, she moves 14-year-old Maike and 7-year-old Piet out with friends and kills herself. Her husband Lars, a landscape architect, receives a delayed email from Sibylle the next morning and finds her dead in a clearing in the forest. When he tells the children, they are initially deeply shocked. Maike learns that her mother has killed herself, blames herself, but also begins to question her mother's love for her. She looks for a reason and thinks that her father had a relationship with the helpful neighbor Petra. Piet, on the other hand, is told that his mother was just sick, but he hears suicide rumors at school and begins to imagine his mother's presence. Meanwhile, Lars is preparing the funeral with his sister Ruth and suppressing his self-reproaches.
At Sibylle's funeral, emotions discharge when Ruth reads a poem. At the same time, while Piet finds out that his mother has killed herself while playing hide and seek under his grandparents' table. When he later confronts his father and sister with it and asks why, they both think that there was actually none.
Finally, the three of the family find their way back to normal; Piet no longer puts four plates on the dining table, but only three.

background

The author Dorothee Schön processed her own personal experiences with the script . Within a few years, her mother and sister committed suicide. The film was commissioned by Hager Moss Film for WDR . When it was first broadcast in the series Filmmittwoch im Erste , The Last Beautiful Day reached 5.7 million viewers, which corresponded to a market share of 17.1 percent.

Reviews

“The (television) drama vividly depicts how much the family structure is in imbalance and how grief, self-reproach and anger troubles the bereaved. To overcome the crisis, they have to break new ground, clear up misunderstandings and practice new ways of dealing with one another. "

- Lexicon of international film

"In the past, director Johannes Fabrick has already proven many times that he is a master of dramatic material [...] Here, based on the script by Dorothee Schön [...], he staged a remarkable family drama that sensitively and sensitively deals with the suicide of a loved one lifelike themed. Fabrick once again engaged the brilliantly performing Wotan Wilke Möhring for the main role [...] The acting performances of Matilda Merkel and Nick Julius Schuck in the roles of the two children are also outstanding "

- prism

"With his psychologically sensitive handwriting, director Johannes Fabrick creates the necessary atmosphere so that the viewer does not miss the small miniatures of the script despite the force of the topic."

- Klaudia Wick , Berliner Zeitung

“Not much happens dramatically: the rituals that keep mourners on their toes and keep them functioning are shown. […] How formidable the direction really is can also be seen in the two children. Matilda Merkel and Nick Julius Schuck play their difficult roles excellently. "

- Barbara Gärtner, Süddeutsche Zeitung

“Screenwriter Dorothee Schön and director Johannes Fabrick managed to put the family drama into a good tone. The ARD film describes the days after the suicide. Not too tearful, not too fake, not too melodramatic, but just as sad and gripping as such an event is. [...] It is this desperation of such a strangled family that the ARD production impressively demonstrates. "

- Joachim Hirzel, Focus

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Klaudia Wick : Porous sensations. In: Berliner Zeitung , January 18, 2012.
  2. ↑ TV ratings: ARD impresses with "The Last Beautiful Day" , digitalfernsehen.de from January 19, 2012
  3. ↑ The last beautiful day. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  4. ↑ The last beautiful day. In: Prisma , April 18, 2013.
  5. ↑ Barbara Gärtner: When the world doesn't get better. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , January 18, 2012.
  6. ↑ Joachim Hirzel: The loved ones torn from life. In: Focus , January 18, 2012.
  7. ^ New York Festivals - 2013 World's Best Television & Films ™ Winners. Retrieved February 8, 2020 .