The pharmacist
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The pharmacist |
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| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1997 |
| length | 108 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Rainer Kaufmann |
| script |
Ralf Hertwig , Kathrin Richter |
| production |
Hanno Huth , Günter Rohrbach |
| music |
Ludwig Eckmann , Maximilian Geller |
| camera | Klaus Eichhammer |
| cut | Ueli Christians |
| occupation | |
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The Apothekerin is a German feature film from 1997 . The film adaptation of the novel - bestseller The pharmacist of Ingrid Noll was directed by Rainer Kaufmann .
action
The Heidelberg pharmacist Hella Moormann has a weakness for men with problems, until she meets the young, playful and car-mad dentistry student Levin. This murdered his grandfather in order to get at his property and his villa, with poison, which Hella had inherited from her grandfather. However, his grandfather had previously changed the will so that he had to marry Hella within a year in order for her to receive the inheritance. So the two get married very quickly. But soon Levin is cheating on Hella with the housekeeper Margot, who had already worked for the grandfather. In addition, Dieter, Margot's husband and ex-prisoner, now also lives in the villa. Hella is also depressed at her workplace. The next day she watches Levin with the perpetrator and she realizes that he must have tried to kill her in order to get "his" money.
Due to a mixture of accident and reflex, Margot falls out of the window while cleaning and dies shortly afterwards. Hella was supposed to support Margot, but let it go briefly out of disgust at a bead of sweat. It is not clear whether Hella tried to help her adversary, because she then lied to the police about the course of events and shortly before her death, Margot told Dieter that Hella was to blame.
Since Levin leaves Hella alone longer and longer, she cheats on him with Dieter, despite his criminal past with assault and drug trafficking . When she suddenly becomes pregnant, she explains to Dieter that he is the father. She hides Dieter's fatherhood when she tells Levin on New Year's Eve. The situation now gets out of control: Dieter attacks Levin and knocks out some of his teeth. After a violent fight, they are both seriously injured and hospitalized.
Meanwhile, Hella befriends Pawel, a customer of the pharmacy. She reveals to Levin at the hospital that she wants to get a divorce. Shortly afterwards, when she learns from Pawel and his two children that they have lost their apartment, she invites them to live with her in the villa. Dieter and Levin return from the hospital after a while and live together on the upper floor of the villa. One night when Alma, Pawel's mentally ill wife, was walking through the house with a burning candlestick, a fire broke out and the villa burned down. Pawel knows how to save himself and his children, while Hella saves her cat without warning Dieter and Levin. Alma comes out of the house by herself. Levin and Dieter die in the flames. While it's pretty obvious that Alma accidentally started the fire. But there remains a certain doubt as to whether Hella was not the culprit. After the fire, Hella and her child and Pawel with his two children and his wife Alma move into a new house.
When Hella is already expecting her second child, Alma turns out to be a real block on the family's leg. The film ends with Alma eating Koenigsberger Klopse alone , which was previously discussed as a good carrier for poison, while Hella's cat wanders past the hiding place of the poison that was already used at the beginning and all family members look eagerly at Alma eating.
background
The shooting took place from October to December 1996 in Heidelberg , Munich and Starnberg . The cinema release in Germany was on October 2, 1997. With almost 1.6 million cinema-goers in Germany, Die Apothekerin is one of Rainer Kaufmann's most successful films, along with talk of the town . Kaufmann makes a cameo in the film as the pig man .
The film music was recorded by the Babelsberg German Film Orchestra .
Reviews
- film-dienst 19/1997: Sometimes macabre comedy, sometimes bizarre melodrama, the formally impressive film lacks a dramaturgically convincing structure, so that the cryptic play with repressed desires and suppressed instincts shows a lot of narrative idleness.
- Kino.de describes the film as a "direct hit" and a "big hit" . Rainer Kaufmann succeed it, "prudent a cinematic equivalent for the subtle concern to find the author." . The characters are "the most fascinating that one has seen in a German film for a long time" and Katja Riemann, Jürgen Vogel and Richy Müller "bring them to life" .
Awards
In 1998 Katja Riemann received an award in the category of best leading actress at the German Film Prize ; There were nominations in the categories of Best Feature Film and Best Supporting Actress for Dagmar Manzel.
In 1999 at the Málaga International Week of Fantastic Cinema Katja Riemann was awarded for Best Actress and Klaus Eichhammer for Best Cinematography .
literature
- Ingrid Noll : The pharmacist. Novel . Diogenes, Zurich 1996, 248 pages, ISBN 3-257-22930-5
Web links
- The pharmacist in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The pharmacist at filmportal.de (with photo gallery)
- The pharmacist at prisma.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Film hit list: Annual list (German) 1998 ( Memento of the original from April 26, 2011 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. , Filmförderungsanstalt, accessed on June 16, 2010
- ↑ Scoring Stage, credits on filmorchester.de. Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg, accessed on May 12, 2018 .
- ↑ Die Apothekerin - Critique , Kino.de, accessed on June 16, 2010
