The Pilgrim
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The Pilgrim |
| Country of production | Germany , Austria , Czech Republic |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2014 |
| length | 175 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Philipp Kadelbach |
| script |
Don Schubert Khyana el Bitar Sebastian Orlac Marc O. Seng |
| production | Benjamin Benedict |
| music | Fabian Römer , Steffen M. Kaltschmid |
| camera | David Slama |
| cut |
Simon Blasi Nils Landmark Janina Gerkens Patrick Wilfert |
| occupation | |
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The Pilgrim is a two-part German television film that was broadcast on January 5th and 6th, 2014 on Second German Television . It was produced by Benjamin Benedict and directed by Philipp Kadelbach .
action
As the daughter of a merchant, the young Tilla Willinger led a good life near Ulm at the end of the 14th century . That changes when Tilla's fatally ill father Eckhardt wants to bequeath his business to her fiancé Damian, the son of Mayor Laux. In order to prevent this and to become his father's successor himself, Tilla's brother Otfried secretly kills the sick Eckhardt and makes his will disappear. Otfried breaks Tilla's engagement to Damian and forces her to marry the sly businessman Veit Gürtler, who dies of a heart attack on their wedding night.
Since Tilla's brother ignores the father's request to bring his heart to Santiago de Compostela , Tilla herself cuts the heart out of the father's corpse and sets off on the dangerous journey by herself. In order to be able to join a group of pilgrims, she dresses up as a young man. Not knowing that Tilla has a document with her that convicts her brother Otfried, who is striving for power, of high treason, she is pursued on her journey on behalf of her brother by Veit Gürtler's illegitimate son Rigobert, who also seeks revenge for his allegedly murdered father. For her protection, the mayor's youngest son, Sebastian Laux, also travels after her and joins the group of pilgrims.
After an attack on the pilgrims' troops, Tilla and Sebastian are captured in France. During the escape, Tilla's father's embalmed heart is lost and ends up in Rigobert's hands. In exchange for the heart, Tilla demands the document that burdens her brother from Tilla. Tilla hands over the sealed document without knowing that Sebastian had previously exchanged it for a worthless document. When Rigobert hands it over to Otfried Willinger, the latter has him arrested out of anger.
Tilla finally reaches Santiago de Compostela with Sebastian and is able to bury her father's heart. In the meantime Otfried has killed Damian and had his father, the mayor, arrested through an intrigue in order to become mayor himself. When Tilla returns home with the real document, she can free the jailed mayor. Otfried is accused of high treason and dies on the market square at the sword of the released Rigobert.
reception
Audience ratings
The film achieved good ratings on both broadcast days and a market share of well over 15 percent for ZDF.
| date | Spectators (total) |
Market share | Spectators ( 14 to 49 year olds ) |
Market share (14 to 49 year olds) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan. 5, 2014 | 6.39 million | 17.3% | 1.55 million | 10.8% |
| Jan. 6, 2014 | 5.98 million | 16.8% | 1.41 million | 10.7% |
Reviews
“[...] The multiple award-winning director Philipp Kadelbach (' Hindenburg ', ' Our Mothers, Our Fathers ') staged this well-made two-part historical film based on Iny Lorentz's bestseller (' Die Wanderhure '). The elaborate, six million expensive production creates an authentic, atmospherically dense picture of the Middle Ages. Josefine Preuß stands out from the prominent cast in the role of the title heroine. "
“[...] Director Philipp Kadelbach ('Our Mothers, Our Fathers') stages the late Middle Ages as an era marked by poverty and dirt. And drives out the clichés of the simple book template with taste. "
“Once again, television tries its hand at the Middle Ages as a dark, torch-flicker wonderland full of malice and intrigue. ZDF stretches the material on the two-part stretch bench. [...] The fact that all of this is still good to watch is thanks to the public broadcasting team of actors that ZDF sent on a journey through time to the Middle Ages. "
"[...] Much worse than the two-parter itself [...] is that you can already guess its predictability when it comes to being. It is reminiscent of better school theater when a famous actor like Volker Bruch mimes a parricide gone mad in the haze of the fog machine. Josefine Preuss had to express the same horror at the death of her father for two hours in tropical temperatures, and yet the scene sounds more like a daily soap than a television event. Even the detailed set design by Kadelbach's production designer Thomas Stammer, whose props already made the dramaturgical fiasco of the Hindenburg on RTL bearable, cannot hide the garbage that arises in it. "
“Men are villains or idiots, women are whores, witches or saints and of course totally emancipated in their hearts. The ZDF History ham, The Pilgrim 'offers modern search for meaning in the stylishly broken cowl look - as if Hape Kerkeling the' Hobbit 'stirred up with the, Wanderhure' ".
"[...] 'The Pilgrim' is an adventure film, no more and no less, a bit charged with female emancipation, the eternal questions about what I am ready to sacrifice for my life, a development novel too."
Web links
- The pilgrim in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The pilgrim in the online film database
- The pilgrim at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release for The Pilgrim . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , December 2013 (PDF; test number: 142 424 V).
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- ↑ The pilgrim. prisma (TV magazine) , accessed January 11, 2014 .
- ↑ The Pilgrim (1). (No longer available online.) TV feature film , formerly in the original ; accessed on January 11, 2014 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Medieval TV on ZDF “Die Pilgerin”: Scary sex and a heart on the move. Focus , January 5, 2014, accessed January 11, 2014 .
- ^ ZDF film "The Pilgrim" - Dirty Feet and Berlin-Mitte Hairstyles. Berliner Zeitung , January 1, 2014, accessed on January 11, 2014 .
- ↑ ZDF two-part series “The Pilgrim”: Middle Ages meet Middle Earth. Spiegel Online , January 2, 2014, accessed January 11, 2014 .
- ↑ A modern public service adventure film. Focus , January 4, 2014, accessed January 11, 2014 .
