The midwife (2014)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The midwife |
| Country of production |
Germany Austria Czech Republic |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2014 |
| length | 114 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Hannu Salonen |
| script |
Thorsten Wettcke based on the novel by Kerstin Cantz |
| production |
Oliver Berben Jan Ehlert |
| music | Marcel Barsotti |
| camera | Wolf Siegelmann |
| cut | Marco Pav D'Auria |
| occupation | |
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The Midwife is a German-Austrian-Czech television film from 2014 based on a novel by Kerstin Cantz . It was on March 25, 2014 Film on Sat.1 broadcasted and also on the same day on ORFeins. In the history and adventure film set in Germany around 1799 , Josefine Preuss played the title role of midwife Gesa Langwasser.
action
Gesa Langwasser went to Marburg in 1799 to be trained as a midwife by Elgin Gottschalk. Her single mother, also a midwife, had sent her there on her deathbed. Elgin refuses to train her and instead sends her to the municipal birthing center.
There she met the anatomist Clemens Heuser. He buys corpses of alleged suicides from tramp Konrad for his research. This is possible because the suicide has forfeited the right to a church burial with their act. When Gesa's friend Lotte is almost strangled by a masked man, the citizens of the city realize that it is in fact a series of murders. Konrad is arrested on overwhelming evidence and is due to be executed, but he is able to escape.
Elgin ends her relationship with the engaged pharmacist Lambert, who then commits suicide. She is expecting a child from him and at the last minute decides against an abortion . She calls Gesa over and asks her to become her midwife. At the same time, Elgin tells her that after her mother died, her father raised her alone until he fell in love with Elgin's best friend. This best friend was Gesa's mother. Elgin asked her father never to see Gesa's mother and daughter again. Gesa is upset, gives Elgin a slap and goes home.
In an argument between Gesa and her fiancé Clemens, the point is that he makes all the decisions for the couple. Because of his status, she was allowed to take her final exam, but not work afterwards. She tells him that she shouldn't have hit Elgin, that she wants to get to know her and have a family with her. Clemens replies that he is Gesa's family and goes to his institute.
The evening after the argument, Gesa visits Elgin again, but she is not at home. Instead, she kneels by the grave of her lover Lambert (he was given melancholy as the cause of death, so he could be buried). When the murderer pounces on her, her buttocks come to the rescue and stab him. She had found Elgin from Lambert's love letters spread out on Elgin's table. While the injured killer is squirming on the ground, they see the tramp Konrad approaching them. At first the two women suspect that the murderers are two. However, Konrad replies that he followed the murderer. When the latter wants to flee, Konrad pounces on him. Gesa unmasked him and discovered that it was Clemens.
Gesa explains off-screen that he murdered in the service of science in order to obtain new "material" for research. He wanted to stop for Gesa. After hearing Lotte calling him a corpse molester, his pride had forced him to kill her. After this failed, he had laid traces that led to the tramp Konrad as a scapegoat.
Gesa now lives with Elgin, who gives birth to the child. Her dream has come true, she is a midwife.
reception
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of Die Hebamme on February 25, 2014 was followed by a total of 5.36 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 17.5%; in the group of 14- to 49-year-old viewers , 2.64 million and a market share of 22.8% were achieved.
Reviews
The film received six stars out of ten in the Internet Movie Database .
Christina Rietz von der Zeit described Gesa as “a somewhat naive, one-dimensional protagonist”. She writes that Sat 1 invented the genre of "birth porn" with the film and that she "saw as much blood as not in three seasons of The Walking Dead ". Viewers would want to see births on this film and not tune in for the serial killer or the love story.
“The plot interspersed between the relevant scenes drives the tension - which is embarrassing yourself! - every time back up. So no one comes up with the idea to switch to Report Mainz or something similar. "
Focus editor Joachim Hirzel also mentioned the “very bloody births” and was bothered by the gender distribution of the roles:
“Seldom has a film divided the world so crudely along the lines of gender, into good and bad, white and black. To be good - that's reserved for women. The gentlemen are, practically without exception, villains. In one way or another. "
The German Press Agency criticized the fact that the film did not choose any genre and that it should have been closer to the novel. However, the performance of the actors was praised, Axel Milberg and Josefine Preuss were explicitly highlighted.
Awards
For her performance in the leading role of Gesa Langwasser, Josefine Preuss received the Bambi for "Best Actress National". In 2014 , Alicia von Rittberg won the New Faces Award for “Best Young Actress” for her portrayal of Lotte Seiler .
background
Most of the film was shot on the premises of a former brewery in Prague.
The sequel The Midwife II was also filmed in Prague, in the empty copy of the Vienna General Hospital . The film, in which Josefine Preuss again plays the leading role, was first broadcast on February 16, 2016. Subsequently, Sat. 1 showed the documentary Justine - the true midwife , who was pre-presented by Preuss , who deals with the life of the midwife Justine Siegemundin .
Web links
- The midwife in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The midwife - film. Sat.1, accessed on March 25, 2014 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for the midwife . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , February 2014 (PDF; test number: 143 324 V).
- ↑ quotemeter.de : “Die Midamme”: Not a wandering whore, but still a great success , accessed on March 29, 2014.
- ↑ Christina Rietz: "The Midwife": Scary Gebärporno. In: zeit.de. March 26, 2014, accessed March 5, 2017 .
- ↑ Joachim Hirzel: "The Midwife": Stupid gender struggle and excessively bloody childbirths. In: focus.de. March 26, 2014, accessed March 5, 2017 .
- ↑ Media: The midwife. In: focus.de. March 21, 2014, accessed on March 5, 2017 (dpa announcement).
- ↑ Shooting - Sat.1 is shooting a thriller about birth and death with "The Midwife". In: derwesten.de. October 23, 2013, accessed March 5, 2017 .
- ↑ Ronja Franke: Exclusive interview with Josefine Preuss about her new film "Die Hebamme 2". In: speektakel.de. February 7, 2016, accessed March 5, 2017 .
- ↑ dwdl.de : Sat.1 is rediscovering German series , accessed on July 26, 2015
- ↑ Justine - the true midwife. In: bilderfest.de. Retrieved March 5, 2017 .