The lost brother
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The lost brother |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2015 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Matti Geschonneck |
| script | Ruth Toma |
| production |
Jakob Claussen , Ulrike Putz , Barbara Buhl , Meike Götz , Claudia Simionescu , Christine Strobl |
| music | Sebastian pill |
| camera | Theo Bierkens |
| cut | Eva Schnare |
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The Lost Brother is a film adaptation of Der Verlorene directed by Matti Geschonneck from 2015 , which was produced for Das Erste .
action
The Blaschke family lived in Westphalia in the 1960s , where they were able to build a new existence after they had to flee from the " Russians " from the German eastern regions at the end of the Second World War . While on the run, the Blaschke couple lost their first son Arnold in toddler age, which Elisabeth Blaschke had never overcome, while her husband devoted himself entirely to his grocery store, but did not completely forget his family. Every Sunday he went on a car excursion with Elisabeth and his second son Max.
One day Elisabeth Blaschke found out about a foundling who was given to a home in Germany on her day of escape, and she firmly believes that it could only be her son. Max suffers from the feverish efforts to find her prodigal son because he is hardly paid any attention. He imagines what it would be like to have a big brother soon. But he doesn't like this idea at all, possibly his parents would recognize him even less and he would even have to share his room with Arnold. Fortunately, it takes time for the authorities to allow his parents to visit the orphanage. Until then, Max still has leeway to finally get more recognition from his parents. But whatever he tries, it doesn't work. His father takes refuge more and more in his business that he has meanwhile expanded into a grocery wholesaler and the friendship with his classmate Milli does not really want to progress either. But he can at least talk to her about his worries. Just as his mother confides her worries to the policeman Frank Rudolf when her husband is too busy again.
Shortly after Ludwig Blaschke inaugurated his new wholesale business, for which he even took out a loan, he also bought a new car. He wants to travel with his family to Heidelberg in order to commission a renowned professor for an expert opinion. He hopes to finally get permission to visit the foundling. Max is not at all impressed by this, because he had just made an appointment with Milli this weekend, which has now destroyed “Arnold” for him. Full of anger, Max tries to prevent them from driving and wants to cut the fuel line of the new car so that they cannot drive away at all. But his plan doesn't work out, the new car drives anyway. Only in Heidelberg does he discover why - out of ignorance, he cut the rope for the handbrake. After his father notices the defect, this means that they have to stay in Heidelberg for another day until the car is repaired. This upsets his father quite a bit, also that the examination did not come up with the hoped-for result. Back home, Ludwig expects an even more unpleasant surprise. In his absence, the refrigerator was broken into and the door was left open. All of his meat products are spoiled with it and he suffers a circulatory breakdown. Shortly after he was taken to the hospital, Ludwig Blaschke died of a heart attack.
From now on Frank Rudolf takes care of Max and his mother even more. Elisabeth Blaschke, on the other hand, takes refuge very intensively in the hope of finding her Arnold. Because Rudolf can no longer watch this, he indirectly helps her to secretly contact the boy. As a civil servant, he has access to the address of the adoptive parents with whom the foundling is staying. He accompanies Elisabeth and Max to the long sought address. Arnold works in a butcher shop in the small town of Rehberg, which makes contacting unproblematic, but Elisabeth doesn't dare to approach her Arnold in the end and sends Max over. At first sight, he senses that the young man is his brother, but does not tell him this. Like a normal customer, he buys sausage for a mark and leaves the shop. Back in the car, he only briefly reports to his mother: he's there. Elisabeth Blaschke seems to be satisfied with that and so the three of them drive back home. Now she finally knows where her prodigal son is and that he is fine. Strikingly, he even works - like his father, whom he never met - in a butcher shop.
background
The lost brother was filmed under the working title Der Verlorene from August 5, 2014 to September 16, 2014 at locations in Bergheim , Elsdorf, Kerpen , Bedburg , Windeck , Wuppertal and Viersen . Claussen + Putz Filmproduktion GmbH was responsible for the film.
reception
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of the film was seen by 5.77 million viewers on December 9, 2015 at prime time at 8.15 p.m. and achieved a market share of 18.7 percent for Das Erste .
criticism
Rainer Tittelbach from Tittelbach.tv judged the film: “As a viewer, you notice that the film 'The Lost Brother' is based on a literary narrative - and in times of crime-focussed straightforwardness or hyper-complex genre narration, it is a real blessing to be in them narrative microcosm. ”He also says:“ As far as history is concerned, it is the incidental nature with which the zeitgeist phenomena, the arrival of the media, the one-is-again-one or this one-must-be-with-the- Time-walking (from corner shop owner to wholesaler) has been sensibly integrated into the plot, and it is - as is so often the case with literary adaptations - the inclination towards the episodic and the loving details that make this film something special. "The film "As a family story and a moral painting equally convincing - episodic, casually & lovingly told, great cast."
For the FAZ , Matthias Hannemann judged: “The strength of the film is that it takes the psychological consequences of the news of the news that [the lost brother could have been found] seriously for the boy without neglecting the psyche of the parents. He even sneaks up on the mentality of the early Federal Republic - albeit through clichés. "
For critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm show The Lost Brother "Sketches from the economic miracle". They gave the film the best possible rating by pointing their thumbs up.
Web links
- The lost brother in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The lost brother at Fernsehserien.de
- The lost brother at crew united
- The lost brother at br.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for The Prodigal Brother . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , September 2015 (PDF; test number: 154 026 V).
- ↑ See crewunited.de
- ↑ a b Rainer Tittelbach : Noah Kraus, Lorenz, Hübner, Matschke, Toma, Geschonneck. The invisible son at Tittelbach.tv , accessed on February 24, 2020.
- ↑ Matthias Hannemann: Home is where you arrive at faz.net , accessed on February 24, 2020.
- ↑ See tvspielfilm.de retrieved from tvspielfilm.de .