Donna Leon - Eternal Youth

Episode of the Donna Leon series
Original title	Eternal youth
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Production ; company	UFA fiction
length	91 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
classification	Episode 25 ( List )
First broadcast	April 18, 2019 on Das Erste
Rod
Director	Sigi Rothemund
script	Jens-Frederik Otto
music	Stefan Schulzki
camera	Dragan Rogulj
cut	Claudia Klook
occupation
	Uwe Kockisch : Commissario Brunetti; Julia Jäger : Paola Brunetti; Karl Fischer : Sergeant Vianello; Michael Degen : Vice-Questore Patta; Dietmar Mössmer : Alvise; Annett Renneberg : Signorina Elettra; Nadja Bobyleva : Manuela; Max von Thun : Sandro Vittori-Ricciardi; Hildegard Schmahl : Contessa Lando-Continui; Andreas Pietschmann : Teo Lando-Continui; Nina Kronjäger : Barbara Magello-Ronchi; Laura-Charlotte Syniawa : Chiara Brunetti; Patrick Diemling : Raffi Brunetti; Stephan Bissmeier : Stefano Dalla Lana; Karin Giegerich : Signora degli Specchi; Jörg Seyer : Landlord Ruggiero; Giovanni Tomassetti : Pietro Cavanis; Ueli Jäggi : Dr. Aurino; Nico Benetti : Police boat driver;
chronology
← Predecessor ; Donna Leon - Finally mine	Successor → ; Donna Leon - Still Waters

Eternal youth is a German TV movie of Sigi Rothemund from the year 2019 , which on the eponymous novel by Donna Leon is based. It is the 25th episode of the ARD crime film series Donna Leon with Uwe Kockisch as Commissario Brunetti in the lead role.

action

Commissario Brunetti, who actually doesn't like giving presents to others, reads 80-year-old Contessa Lando-Continui's every wish from the lips. She asks him to solve a family accident that was covered up 15 years ago. Her now 30-year-old granddaughter Manuela almost drowned after falling into the Rio San Polo. From that incident, she suffered permanent brain damage due to the lack of oxygen, so that she is on a low mental level. Her former lifesaver has now been stabbed to death after all this time and Brunetti sets out to investigate.

background

Eternal Youth was filmed from April 11, 2018 to June 16, 2018 at the same time as the 26th (and last) episode Silent Waters in Venice and the surrounding area. The first broadcast on Das Erste took place on April 18, 2019 at prime time . On January 3, 2020, the episode was released as a crime thriller edition on DVD together with the previous case Ewige Jugend by Universum Film .

Eternal Youth is the last installment in the series in which actor Michael Degen played the role of Vice Questore Patta. However, Patta only appears in two short video messages in which he gives a reason for his absence and expresses the expectation that Venice is in good hands with Commissario Brunetti.

criticism

The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm gave the film a medium rating and pointed with their thumbs to the side. They stated that the plot "as in the book is too far-fetched and therefore unbelievable".

Tilmann P. Gangloff also decided in his review on tittelbach.tv for a medium rating (3.5 out of 6 stars). The story is “quite interesting”, but the episode is “at best average in the context of the series”. For a “real thriller” it is “not exciting enough”. The impressions of the touristic Venice that are typical for the series also “pushed the pace quite considerably”.

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Release certificate for Donna Leon - Eternal Youth . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 195037 / V).
↑ See crew-united.com
↑ See amazon.de
↑ Donna Leon: Eternal Youth. In: tvspielfilm.de. Retrieved January 5, 2020 .
^ Tilmann P. Gangloff: Series "Donna Leon: Ewige Jugend". In: tittelbach.tv. Retrieved February 9, 2020 .

[FSK-1] Release certificate for Donna Leon - Eternal Youth . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 195037 / V).

[2] See crew-united.com

[3] See amazon.de

[4] Donna Leon: Eternal Youth. In: tvspielfilm.de. Retrieved January 5, 2020 .

[5] Tilmann P. Gangloff: Series "Donna Leon: Ewige Jugend". In: tittelbach.tv. Retrieved February 9, 2020 .