The strength that you give me

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Movie
Original title The strength that you give me
Country of production Germany , Austria
original language German
Publishing year 2014
length 89 minutes
Rod
Director Zoltan Spirandelli
script Martin Douven
production Sabine Tettenborn ,
Kurt J. Mrkwicka
music Arnold Johannes Ratheiser ,
Roman Kariolou
camera Daniel Koppelkamm
cut Magdolna Rokob
occupation

The power you give me is a German-Austrian television film by Zoltan Spirandelli from 2014 , which was produced for Das Erste on behalf of ARD . The main roles are occupied by Tanja Wedhorn and Alexander Beyer .

The MDR television claimed at the broadcast of the film: "The hospital is sickening hundreds of thousands of people are infected annually with dangerous germs. In many cases it is the methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus MRSA for short. Many patients die from it. This explosive topic takes up 'The power that you give me'. Zoltan Spirandelli's drama tells of a young family whose lives are almost destroyed by preventable hygiene deficiencies. "

action

The newly graduated molecular biologist Maja Baumgartner is about to sign her first employment contract at the Delos Clinic in Graz when her husband Konrad is admitted, who broke his lower leg when he fell on a motorcycle. The doctor responsible considers an operation to be necessary, which is also carried out. Everything seems to be going according to plan, Konrad is back home quickly, even if he still has to move on crutches for the time being.

When Maja Baumgartner takes up her position, she is confronted with Jens Grünberg, the medical director of the laboratory with whom she was once in a relationship a long time ago. She later talks to her husband about it and makes it clear how much it annoys her that she has to work with Grünberg of all people. She also quickly notices that there is a lot of pressure in the laboratory to want results.

When Konrad collapsed a week after the operation, the doctors discovered a life-threatening inflammation caused by foreign pathogens, and the suspicion that it was so-called hospital germs was confirmed. Maja explains to her friend Sybille, a pilot, that Staphylococcus aureus are multi-resistant germs, which are summarized under the abbreviation MRSA germs . After an improvement has occurred in the meantime and Konrad was back home, he has to be operated again because of severe pain. The attending doctor said to Maja that what she needed now above all was perseverance. The clinic orders a hygiene report that is positive for the clinic.

A nurse confidently tells Maja that there have already been other cases of MRSA in the clinic that have been swept under the table. Maja suspects that Jens Grünberg also has a hand in it, since he has Evita files. Evita is a care service provider who works inexpensively with foreign staff for the clinic, but is probably not able to provide the required standard. Since the clinic director Professor Adler and head of administration Ingo Willaschek make the Baumgartners an offer, but refuse to respond to their crystal clear demands, Maja quits her job. Quite unexpectedly, she gets help from Jens Grünberg, who did not leave the matter alone and who then viewed files that were under lock and key. He assures Maja that she was right. The cover-ups were all via Willaschek's account. He also informed the health department that Evita will be thoroughly checked. Turning to Adler, he says that no investment justifies what is happening at Evita, he was there himself. Adler then told Willaschek that he would no longer have to enter his office with immediate effect. He is outraged that he should now be the scapegoat and says that Adler himself made a clear statement about how the return should look and that is how he acted. But that didn't mean that he should have forged files, Adler says. After a brief hesitation, the clinic director agrees to meet all of the Baumgartners' demands, including admission screening , as in the Netherlands, but the processing must be done internally. A little later, Grünberg offers Konrad to introduce him to his Viennese friend, an osteologist , who should have a look at his leg.

Six months later, the Grünbergs are out and about in the mountains with their two children Jule and Micha as well as their landlady, Ms. Reinhardt, and Maja's friend Sylvia, ending their long hike with a happy picnic.

production

Filming, production notes

The power you give me was filmed under the working title From one day to the other from September 24th to October 25th 2013 in Graz and the surrounding area. The film was produced by the German Maran Film GmbH and the Austrian MR Film for ARD Degeto , production manager Kirsten Frehse, for Das Erste and ORF, produced with the support of the Cinestyria Filmcommission and Fond and the City of Graz.

background

Tanja Wedhorn said: “The topic is very exciting, moving and very topical.” This is “not a happy family film”, one has a topic that is haunted by the media, “wanting to make people even more aware”. It is “exactly” as it is described in the film, there is nothing “far-fetched or 'Hollywood-like'”, nothing exaggerated, but rather obvious everyday life. She herself is a very positive person, whom it would be too burdensome to think about the worst. You couldn't live like that. It is the first time that she is filming in Austria. It is beautiful there.

Michael Schönborn, who plays the head of administration who disregards certain hygiene regulations, said it was a fact that this “problem is omnipresent in today's society” and “that serious infection problems keep coming up in clinics”. And director Zoltan Spirandelli added that the aim of the film was to “raise awareness of a problem”. Because in Germany alone, very many people would die from hospital germs. The topic is explosive because it represents "an increasing threat in the health sector".

publication

The film was shown for the first time on June 13, 2014 in the ARD Das Erste program and in the second television program of the Austrian broadcasting company ORF 2 . The English title is The Strength you give Me .

reception

Audience rating

When it was first broadcast on the program Das Erste, the film drama competed in a top game between Spain and the Netherlands and was able to record 3.80 million viewers. The market share was 13.5 percent. The 14 to 49 year olds accounted for 4.8 percent.

criticism

The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm pointed their thumbs to the side and said: "Serious topic, poor implementation." In addition, there was a warning: "More realism please instead of cuddling scheme".

Tilmann P. Gangloff gave the film 3.5 out of six possible stars on the tittelbach.tv website and praised it: “'The strength you give me' treats the current and explosive topic of hospital germs in a credible and understandable way. After a relatively harmless broken bone, a man becomes infected with a germ that turns out to be life-threatening. Because of the dramaturgy, the hospital in which the infection took place is his wife's employer ... Zoltan Spirandelli's film is better than the film title and synopsis sound. [...] A carefully staged, well-acted Friday evening drama - also suitable for men! The book and director cleverly pack the charge of abuse as a captivatingly staged and well-acted story. "Except for a few small things, the drama, which is carefully implemented down to the smallest details of the actors' management and equipment, is worth seeing."

The film service also saw it similarly and summarized: “Explosive (television) drama with solid tension dramaturgy that is by no means as sentimental as the title suggests. - From 14. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ For the strength you give me see page mdr.de
  2. ↑ The power you give me, TV film, 2013–2014, ARD, Degeto, Drama, Germany | Crew United
  3. ↑ a b c Tatort hospital: Tanja Wedhorn and Alexander Beyer in the ORF / ARD drama “The power you give me”
    see page ots.at
  4. ↑ David Grzeschik: What did the competition have to oppose to the top game between Spain and the Netherlands? All figures now in the primetime check see page quotenmeter.de, June 14, 2014. Accessed on May 12, 2020.
  5. ↑ The power you give me short review on the page tvspielfilm.de (including 12 film images). Retrieved May 12, 2020
  6. ↑ Tilmann P. Gangloff : TV film "The strength that you give me". Tanja Wedhorn, Alexander Beyer, Zoltan Spirandelli. For a successful film for the headline see page tittelbach.tv. Retrieved May 12, 2020.
  7. ↑ The strength that you give me. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed May 12, 2020 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used