Love comes with the Christ Child

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Movie
Original title Love comes with the Christ Child
Country of production Austria
Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2010
length 90 minutes
Rod
Director Peter Sower
script Wolfram Winkler
Markus Mayer
production Thomas Hroch
for Monafilm
music Hannes Michael Schalle
camera Claus Peter Hildenbrand
cut Daniela Padalewski
occupation

Love comes with Christkind is a German-Austrian television film by Peter Sämann from 2010. The Christmas film, shot in the Salzkammergut , had its television premiere on December 3, 2010 in the program Das Erste . The main roles are occupied by Erol Sander and Valerie Niehaus as well as Gaby Dohm and Peter Weck .

action

Christmas time in the small Austrian village of Sankt Gilgen : eight months ago, the wife of top chef Martin Haller died in an explosion in the family restaurant. Since then Martin can no longer cook and earns his living as a taxi driver. Because the family's apartment was destroyed in the accident, he lives with his daughter Katrin again with his father Joseph.

On the run from her unfaithful friend Felix, Judge Annemarie and her son Peter moved from Vienna to Sankt Gilgen . She takes Peter to school on the first day. Her car, which was parked in the no-parking zone, is promptly towed away and she gets into Martin's taxi, which is actually not on duty. Both argue, but in the end they have the same path: Martin has to go to court because he is accused of hit and run - Annemarie turns out to be the presiding judge of his case. She withdrew his taxi license for two months because of a hit-and-run - he only left his contact details on the car after an accident - and also sentenced him to a heavy fine when he became abusive. Martin now has to earn his living by shoveling snow and as Santa Claus at the Christmas market in Sankt Gilgen.

Joseph works together with the single Carmen in the town's Christmas post office. Here they process the mail that the children send to Santa Claus. Joseph also receives the letter from Annemary's son Peter, who wants a friend for his mother. He is now planning to bring Annemarie together with Martin. In fact, after some initial difficulties, the two get closer. Because there is still no heating in Annemarie's apartment, she and Peter are allowed to move in with Martin, Katrin and Joseph. She accepted the offer not least because her ex-boyfriend showed up in the village and found out the address of her new apartment. Martin's family now seems perfect with mother, father and two children. Ms. Zeiler from the youth welfare office, who had already threatened to take care of Katrin, is now satisfied, especially since Martin got his taxi license back. Out of love for Annemarie, he even finds his way back to cooking.

Felix is ​​rejected by Annemarie when he tries to flirt with her. She no longer loves him, she explains to him. He reacts jealously and is now following Martin. When he sees that he is persuading the heating fitter to start work on Annemarie's heating system for a few days, he sees his chance for revenge. At the big Christmas party in the village, he explains to Mrs. Zeiler that Martin and Annemarie are not a couple. Rather, he would only use them to look better in front of the youth welfare office and even manipulate the villagers, who would support him in his actions. Ms. Zeiler confronts Martin with these statements at the Christmas party, at least he cannot deny having persuaded the heating fitter to start the heating a little later. Annemarie leaves him disappointed and returns to her apartment. A little later, Martin appears in court and confesses to her in the middle of a divorce negotiation that he loves her. She too thinks back to the loving time they both had together and realizes that she loves him too. She returns to Martin's house, but Martin is currently in a negotiation at the youth welfare office, in which the welfare of Katrin is to be decided. Annemarie disrupts the negotiation and explains that she loves Martin and Mrs. Zeiler has violated her duty of confidentiality towards outsiders, so she could be sued.

Martin, Annemarie, Katrin, Peter, Joseph and Carmen celebrate Christmas together. Like her mother at Christmas before, Katrin receives a star. Annemarie, on the other hand, forges initial plans how Martin could work as a cook again.

criticism

TV Spielfilm found: "Pure Christmas kitsch, but better than Pilcher".

zelluloid.de wrote that Love Comes with the Christ Child “for Friday evening at the beginning of December after a strenuous working week and during prime broadcasting time [...] a relaxing, touching film [is] - not only but also for single mothers and fathers. In these frosty times, a bit of kitsch is definitely bearable! "

Tilmann P. Gangloff praised the film on evangelisch.de : “The deeply snow-covered Bad Ischl provides the right Christmas atmosphere, the prominent actors are with appropriate zeal in the matter, and Peter Sämann, director of countless Friday films, staged with the appropriate routine. [...] Exactly the right film to warm your heart on a cold winter evening. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See program.ard.de
  2. ↑ See tvspielfilm.de
  3. ↑ Fred Maurer: Love comes with the Christ Child. In: Zelluloid.de. December 5, 2010, archived from the original on December 3, 2017 ; accessed on September 11, 2018 .
  4. ↑ See evangelisch.de