The divine Sophie - the foundling

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Movie
Original title The divine Sophie - the foundling
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2011
length 90 minutes
Rod
Director Hajo Gies
script Thomas Kirdorf
production Stefan Kruppa
Markus Trebitsch
music Günther Illi
camera Hartmut E. Lange
cut Florentine Bruck
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The divine Sophie is a German television film by Hajo Gies from 2009. It is the second part of the television film Die divine Sophie with Michaela May and Jan Fedder in the leading roles.

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Pastor Steffensen has now settled in well in his new home in Fischbach . The parishioners come to confession regularly and this time a young woman he does not know comes too. She sounds very desperate and before Steffensen knows it, she has disappeared again, but has left a bag with a baby in it. So the priest takes little Emil to the rectory and his housekeeper Sophie Strohmayr takes care of the little one straight away. Meanwhile, Steffensen is discussing with his friend Clemens Stölzer how to proceed. Sophie is certain that the foundling's father very likely comes from Fischbach and that the mother therefore left the boy here. Without further ado, the pastor takes the child back to church and presents the little earth citizen to his congregation. With admonishing words he appeals to the conscience of the, in the unknown, father to face his responsibility and to contact him. Since the father cannot be found, Steffensen wants to hand the child over to the authorities, but his housekeeper disagrees. She is already planning where the cot and changing table should be. The pastor “has to” obey.

The press soon became aware of the foundling and asked for photos for a story. As soon as the pictures are published, the story does not remain hidden from the responsible bishop. He doesn't like the whole thing at all and sends Kaplan Stölzer to Fischbach to clarify the matter. A pastor with his housekeeper and a baby on the front page of the newspaper - that just doesn't work in the Catholic Church. Steffensen doesn't let his friend Stölzer dissuade him from keeping the child until they have found the parents too. Sophie also has a divine thought about how to find her mother and so it turns out that she worked in a hotel in the neighboring village until recently and that the father is actually from Fischbach. Remorseful, Toni Brunner reports, who has actually been trying in vain for a year to father offspring with his Leonie. These strictly planned activities were not only unsuccessful, but also brought sexual annoyance, which is why Toni had got involved with Sandy Manzel at the church fair. After a genetic test, it is clear that Toni is actually Emil's father. This threatens to ruin Toni's marriage and the pastor has his hands full to make it work again. Fortunately, Toni and Leoni are reconciled just in time when the bishop personally arrives in Fischbach and, to his delight, the parent's question has been resolved. But Emil's mother suddenly appears to bring her child back after she has found work again. So the bishop is satisfied and six months later Sandy has little Emil baptized in Fischbach. For Toni and Leoni, their efforts have finally been successful and they are looking forward to the birth of their first child together.

reception

Audience rating

The first broadcast of Die divine Sophie took place on April 15, 2011 and was seen in Germany by 5.81 million viewers and achieved a market share of 19.0 percent for Das Erste .

Reviews

Rainer Tittelbach from Tittelbach.tv said: “The godless with the cheeky mouth and the clergyman from the Waterkant come like the virgin to a child together. The momentum is out of the white-blue Volksschwank series. The second episode of 'Die divine Sophie' is less fresh, the book less dense, the gags are less cheeky, the situations less weird and the Bavarian flair seems less rustic. Sophie is bursting with good humanity and the pastor brings in little besides a few flat sayings from the Waterkant. "

For Kino.de, however , Tilmann P. Gangloff wrote quite positively: "With a lot of pleasure and even more love for satirical detail, the successful team of the first film [...] also tells the second story." "Next to the unequal Fedder / May couple lives Comedy from the lovingly drawn characters, the carefully cast supporting actors and the many pretty ideas. "

Julian Miller fromquotemeter.de criticized: “Some films can only be explained by a disturbed relationship to reality. This one is one of them. Because his premise is implausible from the outset: The responsible authorities remain completely inactive when the priest and housekeeper with a child are on the front pages of the boulevard, and can then simply be dismissed when they finally stand at the door. "He also found: “The dialogues […] are banal, the obstacles that are placed in the way of the protagonists are cheap and far too easy for them to overcome. A real action is only partially recognizable, conflicts largely non-existent. Qualitative differences to the equally dumb predecessor film from 2009 cannot be determined. ”Conclusion:“ A completely stupid film without charm, wit, tension or plausibility and again heresy in good taste. ”

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Michaela May, Jan Fedder, Kirdorf: uncoordinated twitching instead of blinking eyes at tittelbach.tv , accessed on April 8, 2020.
  2. ^ Tilmann P. Gangloff : Film review retrieved from Kino.de on April 8, 2020.
  3. ↑ Julian Miller film review on quotenmeter.de, accessed on April 8, 2020.