The Black Forest Clinic - The next generation

Movie
Original title	The Black Forest Clinic - The next generation
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	2005
length	100 minutes
Rod
Director	Hans-Jürgen Tögel
script	Rudolf Anders , Marlies Ewald
production	Polyphon film and television company , Frank Buchs , Wolfgang Rademann
music	Hans Günter Wagener
camera	Rainer Gutjahr
cut	Dirk Gray
occupation
Alexander Wussow : Dr. Benjamin Brinkmann Eva Habermann : Sophie Schwarz Klausjürgen Wussow : formerly Prof. Klaus Brinkmann Gaby Dohm : Dr. Christa Brinkmann Sascha Hehn : Dr. Udo Brinkmann Barbara Wussow : Elke Brinkmann Eva Maria Bauer : former head nurse Hildegard Evelyn Hamann : Carsta Michaelis Christian Kohlund : Prof. Alexander Vollmers Gerhart Lippert : Herbert Schwarz Jochen Schroeder : former carer Mischa Karin Eckhold : Ms. Meis Gaby Fischer : former sister Ina Olivia Pascal : Carola Volker Brandt : Dr. Schübel

The Black Forest Clinic - The Next Generation was the first of two specials that premiered on February 20, 2005 for the 20th anniversary of the successful series from the 80s The Black Forest Clinic .

action

Dr. Benjamin Brinkmann wants to marry the doctor Sophie Schwarz. On this occasion, friends, family and colleagues of the couple gather in the Black Forest. Since Benjamin - like his father and half-brother Udo in the past - works as a doctor in the Black Forest Clinic, most of his father's former colleagues meet. With some effort, housekeeper Carsta even manages to track down the former resolute head nurse Hildegard and bring her to the wedding.

A medical emergency overshadows the wedding preparations, but in the end Benjamin and Sophie marry as planned.

Locations

As in the 1980s, the locations were the Glottertal with the Carlsbau built in 1914 ( map ), the Hüsli local history museum in Grafenhausen , the town of Rothaus , the island of Mainau , Konstanz , the vesperstube Unterkrummenhof, Aha and the Schluchsee .

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  The “Klinik Glotterbad” in Glottertal in the Black Forest ( map )

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  Hüsli local history museum, external location for Professor Brinkmann's private apartment ( map )

reception

Audience ratings

The first broadcast of the series special reached around 15 million viewers and was therefore exceptionally successful for a television film.

Reviews

Like the series twenty years earlier, the film special received mixed reviews. It was u. a. spoken of the "touch of yesterday".

Clara Ott wrote in 2005 for Zeit.de: “The new episode only shone in the post-processed sunset scenes and only illuminating actors like Evelyn Hamann or Eva-Maria Bauer brought light into the darkness of the Black Forest. Instead of a nice story, every actor preferred to have a car tailored to their character. (...) It seemed as if the motto was 'The main thing is to be there, no matter what and how I have to play.' "

continuation

Motivated by the ratings success of the special, another special entitled Die Schwarzwaldklinik - Neue Zeiten was broadcast in the same year , but with only around seven million viewers, it was unable to match the ratings success of its predecessor.

Web links

• The Black Forest Clinic - The next generation in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kitsch and cult. tz-online.de, accessed on November 7, 2011 . 
2. ↑ Black Forest Clinic: Kitsch in front of the camera and dispute behind it , zeit.de, February 21, 2005, accessed on October 25, 2018
3. ↑ 25 years of the "Black Forest Clinic". t-online.de, accessed on November 7, 2011 (This link refers to both the 20th and the 25th anniversary).