The confirmation

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Movie
Original title The confirmation
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2017
length 90 minutes
Rod
Director Stefan Krohmer
script Beate Langmaack
production Johanna Teichmann ,
Martin Choroba
music Stefan Will
camera Manuel Mack
cut Tina Friday
occupation

The Confirmation is a German television film by Stefan Krohmer from 2017. Tim Litwinschuh plays Ben Winkler, the son of Johanna Winkler ( Ulrike C. Tscharre ), whom she brought up atheistically with her partner Felix ( Ben Braun ), who however feels committed to Christianity . Georgette Dee , Christina Große , Reiner Schöne , Tijan Fischer-Islas , Toto Knoblauch and guest Kai Wiesinger play leading roles .

At the start of the film, Degeto Film wrote in the First : “In an entertaining way, director Stefan Krohmer tells an unusual coming-of-age story in 'The Confirmation' - namely that of the parents: Unlike their peers who want to test their limits, they are looking for Boy played by Tim Litwinschuh Halt in Faith. The script of the award-winning author Beate Langmaack connects his growing up and letting go of his mother in a sensitive way. "

action

The 15-year-old pubescent Ben, son of the insurance employee Johanna Winkler, is secretly baptized, even though his mother and also his stepfather, the social pedagogue Felix, are atheists and raised Ben in this sense. However, the young person feels obliged to Christianity and wants to show this to the outside world. Johanna doesn't really know how to deal with her son's decision and Felix also struggles with how strongly Ben represents his faith.

Johanna, who finds it difficult to accept that her son is slowly separating from her, instinctively feels that she could lose him if she opposes his decision to be confirmed and does everything she can to give him an appropriate one To be able to organize confirmation ceremony. Although Ben's father, Simon, who is married for the second time and is financially very good, offers to cover the costs of the celebration, Johanna refuses this out of misunderstood pride. Instead, she visits a casino and thus exposes herself to the risk of falling back into the gambling addiction that she believed to have been overcome.

Since Johanna reacts irritably to Felix more than once and is often out and about without Felix knowing that she is visiting a casino again, the social worker is grateful for understanding conversations that he can have with Ben's religion teacher Tabea. At a confirmation party, which also includes alcohol, Ben observes Tabea and his stepfather kissing. He's recording that on his cell phone.

Ben has a good, relaxed relationship with his grandfather Axel Winkler and also likes to talk to his best friend Frida; There is a special relationship of trust between the two from the very first moment. Just like Frida, Ben doesn't like a pompous confirmation ceremony, that is actually his day, he says, the course of which he would like to determine himself. However, since Johanna only loses in the casino after her initial luck, she has to cancel the reservation for the expensive restaurant that she booked for the celebration.

Ben tells his father, Simon, that he was in the final round of an online test for a scholarship in the US, but it was not enough. Simon explains without further ado that he will of course pay for Ben's studies, he is glad that he asked at all. A little later, Ben has to comfort his crying mother, who confesses to him that she is addicted to gambling, which Ben did not know before, and that she was in the casino again. A little later, he and his mother go to the casino, where Johanna is blocked throughout Germany. Ben had advised her to do it.

The evening before Ben's confirmation, he gives Frida a pistol, her greatest wish, but made of chocolate, which both amuses. When Felix arrives, he gives him something too, he is allowed to press the delete button on the cell phone. As his mother tells him in front of the church, she wants to go somewhere with Felix during Ben's one year absence in the USA, too. Ben gives his mother a watch with two time zones so that she always knows what time it is with him. The celebration on the occasion of the confirmation, which is now celebrated in a more modest setting, is relaxed and informal.

Production, publication

It is a television film by Degeto that was produced by Tellux-Film . Barbara Süßmann and Sascha Schwingel were responsible for the editing.

The confirmation was broadcast for the first time on June 16, 2017 as part of the ARD theme week “What do you believe in?” In the ARD Das Erste program.

reception

Audience rating

When the film was first broadcast, 1.95 million viewers tuned in. The market share was 8.2 percent.

criticism

TV Spielfilm pointed the thumbs up, gave two for humor and one of three possible points for aspiration and tension and said: "Author Beate Langmaack [...] and director Stefan Krohmer [...] amusingly question life plans." Conclusion: "Kluge Matriculation examination for a couple. "

Thomas Gehringers gave the film four out of six possible stars on the tittelbach.tv website and rated it: “As an everyday family drama with an open dramaturgy, the multi-reading film undoubtedly has a particular strength.” Gehringer spoke of a “strong cast ( Tscharre, Große) ”and“ some tragicomic moments ”, with the“ interesting idea ”but“ only partially working ”. It went on to say: “From the start, the message of the television film, which is part of the ARD theme week, is 'What do you believe in?' is broadcast, not to be overlooked: believing, young and cool, that can go together ... "[...]" In the long run, "the permanent serenity of 15-year-old Ben is a little untrustworthy". In this respect, "the promising constellation Beate Langmaack (screenplay) and Stefan Krohmer (director) on the Degeto feel-good slot on Friday evening hoped for a little more courage" [...] "The understatement with which Langmaack and Krohmer here believe and religion it would be even more convincing if this 15-year-old hadn't become such a super model teenager. "

For Rainer Tittelbach it is “an interesting, multi-layered story with many true moments and wonderful details that are casually, almost episodically, strung together.” Regarding the role of the young main character, Tittelbach asks the question: “Perhaps this is what a future pastor looks like ? "[...]" Ulrike C. Tscharre "plays" the addicted insurance employee Johanna mostly on the verge of a nervous breakdown, Ben Braun tries himself as a casual sports teacher with a three-day beard ". The fact that “there is not really fun between the actors is not so bad, because Felix and Johanna argue non-stop anyway. The role of Pastor Tabea [was] strongly cast with Christina Große ”.

The online portal Filmdienst said: “Pleasantly unagitated (TV) family film about a generation clash between adults who are unrelated to religion, who are busy with their everyday management and have left little space for existential questions, and an adolescent who is interested in the Searching for his way of life asks the question of meaning and discovers God and the community for himself. Direction and script allow everyone involved space to unfold and develop in their attitudes. [Sic] - From 14. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The confirmation on the degeto.de page. Retrieved July 23, 2020.
  2. ^ A b c Thomas Gehringer, Rainer Tittelbach : TV film "The Confirmation". Litwinschuh, Tscharre, Braun, Große, Langmaack, Krohmer: God instead of porn on the tittelbach.tv site. Retrieved July 23, 2020.
  3. ↑ The confirmation on the page tvspielfilm.de (including 25 film images). Retrieved July 23, 2020.
  4. ↑ Confirmation. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed July 23, 2020 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used