My mother's letters
| Movie | |
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| Original title | My mother's letters |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2014 |
| length | 90 minutes |
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| Director | Peter Gersina |
| script |
Georg Heinzen , Michael B. Müller , Elke Sudmann |
| music | Maurus Ronner |
| camera | Carsten Thiele |
| cut | Ann-Sophie Schweizer |
| occupation | |
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My Mother's Letters is a German drama by director Peter Gersina from 2014. Christine Neubauer plays the leading role as the journalist and single mother Katharina Hellmer, who lives in Berlin with her daughter Laura ( Nilam Farooq ) .
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Katharina Hellmer is a committed political journalist who leads a happy life in Berlin with her daughter Laura. Laura has never seen her father before, because according to everything she knows and what she knows from her mother's stories, he was a Spanish war photographer who lost his life while working in a crisis area.
On the day before her 18th birthday, Laura finds letters from her mother, the contents of which suggest that everything was completely different: In truth, Laura's father seems to come from Chile and is by no means dead. Furious, Laura decides to take the next flight to South America and look for her father.
Once there, she meets the student Luis and asks him for help in finding her father. Together, the two discover that their mother used to research politically questionable events during the ruling Pinochet dictatorship . Their reports also revealed torture ordered by the Chilean secret service. However, the two of them cannot find any real trace of their father.
Katharina noticed that Laura was traveling to Chile and followed her immediately. However, Laura tries everything in her power to finally get to know her father. Katharina gives in to this pressure and leads her daughter to a landowner. He is surprised at the news that he has a daughter. But Laura is clever and shortly afterwards it becomes clear that her mother has again not told her the whole truth.
At this point at the latest, the script clearly runs in different directions. Sometimes Laura intends to visit the graves of torture victims together with the student Luis, then again Laura practices shooting with her alleged father, and at another moment she plans to have a picnic by the sea.
At the end of the story, Katharina doesn't really have a choice. If she wants to reconcile with her daughter, she will have to tell her the whole truth, including the long-suppressed experiences.
Publication date, market share
My mother's letters were first broadcast on ARD on April 26, 2014 . With a market share of 14.8%, the film reached an audience of 4.16 million viewers.
Reviews
TV Spielfilm judges: “A bumpy story about the aftershocks of the Pinochet dictatorship, in which of course all Chileans speak perfect German. But still quite well photographed ”. The summary of the program magazine is: "Bitter contemporary history, sweetly packaged".
Giti Hatef-Rossa is of the opinion that my mother's letters "[offers] beautiful pictures and genre contemporary emotions." However, criticized the journalist and author who at Tittelbach judged as a guest author film production that the production is located among the options of the actors, and that the script diverges in its plot. She also criticizes the fact that the composer Maurus Ronner sometimes so whitewashed the plot with his dramatic music that one could be of the opinion that instead of watching a drama, a thriller .
Web links
- My mother's letters in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- My mother's letters in the online film database
- My mother's letters at Moviepilot
- My mother's letters on ARD
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b My mother's letters - review of the film - Tittelbach.tv. In: tittelbach.tv. Retrieved December 9, 2015 .
- ↑ My mother's letters - film review - film - TV SPIELFILM. In: tvspielfilm.de. Retrieved December 9, 2015 .