The country doctor - decision of the heart

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Movie
Original title The country doctor - decision of the heart
Country of production Austria
original language German
Publishing year 2013
length 90 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
Rod
Director Sigi Rothemund
script Mathias Klaschka
production Degeto Film , Regina Ziegler
music Otto M. Schwarz
camera Hermann Dunzendorfer
cut Claudia Klook
occupation

The Country Doctor - Decision of the Heart is an Austrian television film directed by Sigi Rothemund from 2013. It is the 9th episode in the film series The Country Doctor .

action

Dr. After the death of a colleague, Johanna Lohmann has to take care of four other towns so that she hardly has any time for her private life. This morning, too, to the displeasure of her friend Daniel Winterberg, she is called from the breakfast table by a phone call to a case that requires her to come immediately. On the way there she has to take care of a crashed amateur kite flyer. And then the farmer Leo Bergmeier intervenes with a request, who demands your help with an animal because the local veterinary practice closed a few weeks ago. Back in her practice, a lot of patients are already waiting for the doctor. There she also examines Jakob Richter, the amateur kite pilot and journalist. Taking note of her situation, he offers to write about the situation of the doctors in the country and how overwhelmed they are after more and more practices are closed due to the death of the old doctors. She tells him that she is responsible for five localities and that more and more patients have to be cared for, but that the sometimes long distances to the destinations mean that she can care less and less. Johanna agrees with Richter's idea to accompany her in her work from now on for a certain time.

The farmer Leo Bergmeier has now brought Dominik Engel back to his farm. He once sent him away because he feared that he might get too close to his married daughter Verena. However, it now looks as if his son-in-law Gerhard is not coming back. Engel, who honestly loves Verena, also has a good relationship with her little daughter Lena. He says that as much as Verena would like her husband to come back, he would like him to stay where the pepper grows. Rashly, he places an ad for Leo Bergmeier in an Internet forum: “Farmer is looking for a wife.” “Then women register?”, Leo reports his skepticism.

When visiting a pregnant woman, the judge accompanying Johanna suddenly gets severe pain, but denies Johanna's question whether she could help him. Marie Senholzer, Johanna's aunt and assistant in her practice, thinks she knows Richter. For some time now she has been worrying about her husband Fritz, who still complains of pain, but blames it on a summer flu. As Marie correctly suspected, she actually knows Jakob Richter from before. He comes from the place. In the cemetery, Johanna meets him at his parents' grave. There Jakob also tells her that he has had acute leukemia for two years . Now he has finally come home to die. Shortly afterwards there was an incident because Fritz Senholzer went on a mountain tour ignoring his pain. There he collapses and just manages to call Johanna, who makes her way to see him with Richter. The doctor diagnoses a circulatory collapse and makes sure that the rescue helicopter picks up Fritz. In the hospital in Steyr one is hypothyroidism diagnosed. In a later conversation at a place in his childhood, Johanna tried to convince Jakob that he would have a real chance if a donor could be found for stem cell therapy . However, Richter says he has been on the list for over a year and he no longer believes in miracles.

The first applicants for the advertisement initiated by Engel arrive at Leo's farm. The first one is strongly spiritual, the second looks more like a manager and hastily leaves the yard after stepping into a cow dung . The next one looks nice from a distance, but is a bit too old for Leo. The next one who brings her plants with her is also a failure. Then, however, comes Gundula Schönbach, a woman in a dirndl who not only looks pretty, but is also very personable. She has one more thing in common with Leo, her husband Erwin died two years ago, as did his wife Grete. The local landlady has also read Leo's personal ad and wants to know from Leo whether they shouldn't even meet privately. However, he prefers to deal with Gundula Schönbach and the two do not just spend a harmonious evening together.

Contrary to Jacob's will, Johanna started a call for stem cell typing, the first to be tested is Marie Senholzer. Since Jakob reacts angrily because he does not want pity, Johanna searches the Internet for information about him and finds the picture of a woman that she also saw with Jakob. Johanna seeks the woman. She says that she studied journalism with Jakob . They were even engaged two years ago, but then Jakob suddenly withdrew and no longer wanted to have anything to do with her. You did not understand that at the time. Johanna breaks her medical confidentiality and tells the young woman how things are with Jakob and that she is her last hope. She thinks he just didn't want to ask her to watch him die. “Whatever you decide,” says Johanna, “I wanted you to know that.” A man with a child in his arms enters the apartment.

Marie has a discussion with her husband Fritz. She tells him that when Johanna called that he was in the hospital, the floor was pulled from under her feet. The idea that either of them could be left alone is unbearable to her. Jakob, on the other hand, has meanwhile finished his article on the medical situation in rural areas and is handing a copy over to the doctor. Johanna tells Marie that she had spoken to his former girlfriend and that she thinks that she is still very attached to him, but that she now has a husband and child. Verena receives a call and runs into the haystack, where Dominik finds her. There she tearfully tells him that her husband is not coming back. However, there is also good news, Marie's stem cells match those of Jakob, they were somehow related to each other through her grandparents. When Johanna Jakob wants to deliver the news, Marie tells her that sleeping pills are missing from her practice. Johanna switches and recapitulates Jacob's sentence that this is a beautiful place to die. When she got there, he hadn't taken the pills yet. “It's good that you haven't given up on me, he says to Johanna.” And a little later, Jacob's former friend Carolin arrives with her child. She introduces Jacob to his son; the man who joins them is her brother.

A party takes place and Johanna says that they have proven to Großraminger in the last few weeks that there is still help and support and that they want to toast and donate to her Aunt Marie, who did not hesitate for a second.

Production and audience ratings

This episode was filmed in May 2011 in Großraming, Steyr, Upper Austria and in the Kalkalpen National Park . It is a co-production by Ziegler Film with Wega Film Wien and ARD Degeto for Das Erste. The film work was supported by the state of Upper Austria and the Austrian television fund .

The film will be broadcast for the first time on June 14, 2013 on ARD on Das Erste . 4.42 million viewers tuned in, which corresponded to a market share of 16.9%.

criticism

TV Spielfilm pointed his thumb down, gave one of three points for humor and tension and gave the overall rating: “Kind of a senior plate of death.” Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv spoke of a “remarkably good visual concept with some wonderful ones Kitsch pictures. ”The“ five entertaining narrative strands between Dramolett and Schwank ”would rarely have worked as well as in this episode, which has now grown to 10 episodes and directed by Sigi Rothemund. Tittelbach particularly emphasized the work of the "top cameraman" Hermann Dunzendorfer, who was responsible for the image design.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b series The country doctor - decision of the heart Neubauer, Sosniok, Schmölzer. Farmer is looking for a wife, cancer is looking for stem cell donors. Rainer Tittelbach. In: tittelbach.tv. Retrieved July 27, 2013.
  2. The country doctor: Decision of the heart TV – Heimatschmonzette with Christine Neubauer's penultimate appearance as a good alpine doctor. In: tvspielfilm.de. Retrieved July 27, 2013.