The glassblower
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| Original title | The glassblower |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2016 |
| length | 88 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Christiane Balthasar |
| script | Léonie-Claire Breinersdorfer |
| production | Oliver Vogel |
| music | Johannes Kobilke |
| camera | Hannes Hubach |
| cut | Andreas Althoff |
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Die Glasbläserin is a German TV film directed by Christiane Balthasar from 2016 . The historical drama is a literary film adaptation of the first volume of the same name from Petra Durst-Benning's glassblower trilogy. It is about the sisters Johanna ( Luise Heyer ) and Marie ( Maria Ehrich ) who, after the death of their father in 1891, tried to continue the family's glassblowing against the greatest opposition and prejudice .
action
The sisters Johanna and Marie Steinmann live with their father in Lauscha, Thuringia . While they run the household for him after his mother's death, he is the sole breadwinner and all three live on the miserable income from the glassblowing that the father runs. After his sudden death the sisters get into dire financial straits. Marie is not averse to continuing her father's art, which Johanna refuses. In 1891 women were still forbidden to do this kind of independent work. When the neighboring glassblower Wilhelm Heimer offered the young women work, they initially accepted it. Marie is allowed to paint the glassware, in which she shows great skill. Johanna, on the other hand, is more interested in direct glass production, but both are very dissatisfied. The pay is bad and Thomas, her employer's son, is chasing after Marie. When Johanna gave her opinion to Wilhelm Heimer one day about the very authoritarian-led company, her employment relationship ended.
So she takes a job with the dealer Friedhelm Strobel in the neighboring Sonneberg . As a result, she's gone all week, but now has a decent and better-paid job. She developed into Strobel's “right hand” and came into contact with influential customers. When one of these customers wanted to buy the bowl that Marie had recently painted in her own creation, a new sales market opened up. Johanna asks Marie to make more of these bowls so that Strobel can add them to the range. But Marie has other worries at first because she has to marry Thomas Heimer because she is expecting a child from him. He had used Joan's absence from his parents' house to rape Marie. So this marriage does not have a good beginning and when the child is born and “only” is a girl, this puts the relationship of the young couple to another test.
In addition to her new marital duties, Marie repeatedly manages to wrestle some time from secretly to practice glass blowing in the father's workshop. The bowls she designed herself, which Johanna can sell very well in Sonneberg, are becoming increasingly successful. In addition, she developed new types of glass balls, which she initially used as wind chimes to calm her baby down. The constant absence of Marie in the Heimer house ultimately leads to the fact that she leaves her husband after another argument and returns completely to her parents' house. Johanna thinks this is wrong, but has meanwhile also suffered from her employer herself. Strobel, who appears so honorable on the outside, uses the opportunity one day and rapes Johanna. So she also leaves the well-paid position to flee to Marie. On the way there, the glass eye maker Peter Maienbaum finds the completely distraught young woman in the forest. Traumatized, Johanna only slowly finds her way back to normal.
When Marie learns that the American wholesaler is in Sonneberg, who liked her bowl so much, she contacts him. Despite Strobel's attempt to prevent this, she manages to arouse the interest of Mr. Miles. She convinces him of her abilities, and Miles is indeed extremely impressed. When he discovered the balls that Marie had actually only made for her baby, he was so excited that he ordered 800 of these Christmas tree balls. Marie now has to produce this amount under high pressure and thus draws her husband's displeasure, who sees her work as competition to his father's production. Marie can convince Wilhelm Heimer that she makes completely different things than he and his customers do not dispute with him. In this way they make peace and Marie can finish the ordered goods on time undisturbed. She places a self-made red glass heart in one of the cardboard boxes that are going on the trip to America. In response, Miles orders 1500 of these hearts from Marie, which will secure her financial future. With his help, Marie is sure to make the step into self-employment. Johanna, too, is gradually looking to the future with confidence and after a long period of advertising she decided in favor of Peter Maienbaum.
Production notes
The glassblower is based on the novel of the same name by the writer Petra Durst-Benning, which was published in 2000 by Ullstein Verlag . The screenplay for the film was written by Léonie-Claire Breinersdorfer , who kept very closely to the novel. Produced The glassblower on behalf of ZDF from Bavaria television production in co-production with Wilma film. The shooting took place from March 8 to April 16, 2016 in Prague and the surrounding area.
reception
Audience ratings
The glassblower was first broadcast on Arte on December 9, 2016 . It was broadcast on ZDF on December 12, 2016 during prime time . With an average of 5.10 million viewers and a total market share of 15.5 percent , the film became the most-watched television production of the day. In the advertising-relevant target group of 14 to 49 year olds, the feature film had a 7.2 percent market share.
criticism
Heike Hupertz from the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung described the glassblower as an " emancipation story " that "acts like mulled wine at the Christmas market": "Sweet, sticky, but still suitable to get in the mood". Apart from the “soapy story”, the film “can certainly be called a success for a Christmas film.” In addition to cameraman Hannes Hubach's pictures and Christiane Balthasar's direction, she praised the high-quality scene, costume and make-up images as well as the two main actresses Maria Ehrich and Luise Heyer.
TV critic Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv found that the “historical film narrative based on the novel of the same name by Petra Durst-Benning” with its “feel good” is also suitable as a “(pre) Christmas wrist warmer”. He goes on to say that the story “relies on the well-known dramaturgically”, but “captivates with an excellent realistic visual language” and is “excellently cast”. "The two leading actresses Luise Heyer and Maria Ehrich grab the film for themselves," he concludes.
Web links
- The glassblower in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The glassblower in the online film database
- The glassblower at Arte
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for the glassblower . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
- ↑ a b Heike Hupertz: There was a time when women weren't allowed to do that . Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . December 9, 2016. Retrieved December 16, 2016.
- ↑ a b c d e The glassblower . Bavaria Film . Retrieved December 16, 2016.
- ↑ Robert Meyer: ZDF convinces with “Die Glasbläserin” and “RED” . In: quota meter . December 10, 2016. Retrieved December 16, 2016.
- ↑ TV film "The Glassblower" . Tittelbach.tv . Retrieved December 16, 2016.