A summer in Amsterdam

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Episode in the series A Summer in ...
Original title A summer in Amsterdam
Country of production Germany
original language German
length 90 minutes
classification Episode 12
First broadcast May 25, 2014 on ZDF
Rod
Director Karola Meeder
script Thomas Kirdorf
music Micki Meuser
camera Frank Lamm
cut Ronny Mattas
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
A summer in Hungary

Successor  →
A Summer in Iceland

A Summer in Amsterdam is a German TV film by Karola Meeder from 2014 . In addition to Ulrike Folkerts in the lead role, Filip Peeters , Benedikt Blaskovic , Renée Soutendijk and Lucie Heinze play leading roles. The ZDF Sunday film , which starts in the “ Herzkino ” category , is the twelfth episode of the film series Ein Sommer in ... , which takes place in different locations around the world.

The ZDF wrote: "A humorous and loving confusion [...] that almost ends in a disaster."

action

Mia Kaufmann is greeted by her friend Hetty de Witt at the train station in Amsterdam. Mia has come to Amsterdam to follow the traces of an egg that she donated 25 years ago as a fashion design student there because of a lack of money. Hetty declares her crazy about her plan. Mia's search for so long, however, has a deeper meaning. It's now been a year since her 21-year-old daughter Hannah was killed in a car accident. A bad year for Mia, who misses Hannah terribly.

When Mia is about to give up and is back at the train station, she receives a text message from Grietje Knippers' office assistant from the practice in which she was a donor at the time. Mia's pleading for help must have touched her after all. This is how Mia gets to the address of her biological son, who is a Mathijs van Haalen. The getting-to-know phase turns out to be difficult because he believes Mia is stalking him. In a conversation with his father Jan, Mathijs learns the truth about his origins. The young man demands his compulsory portion from his father because he and his girlfriend Sanne want to buy the houseboat on which they both live. However, his father makes it unmistakably clear to him that he cannot expect anything from him, that he should kindly work to fulfill his wishes. Mathijs is a puppeteer , which in the eyes of his father Jan is not a job and has divided father and son more and more. Jan van Haalen runs a shipyard .

In a restaurant, Mia is approached by a gentleman who is Jan van Haalen. When she leaves, she loses a key that Van Haalen finds. He leaves him in the restaurant with a letter for Mia, whom he would like to see again. Meanwhile, Mia steps in at her pension, where Mathijs is employed, when he is quite overwhelmed with the many guests. Mathijs wants to know what she got for her egg cell. "5000 guilders," says Mia, but that's not important. When he was eleven, his mother ran off to Kansas with a friend. When he was twelve, his father had no time for him and deported him to boarding school. Mathijs bitterly wants to know why she has come now, after 25 years. Now he can handle himself alone, she should leave him alone.

When Mia wants to leave a letter for Mathijs on the houseboat, because she has decided to leave, she meets Sanne, who gives her an address with the request to give the envelope to Mathijs personally. When Mia arrives there, her son has just started his puppet show and is performing the impressive song You let yourself go by Charles Aznavour . Mia leaves the envelope with Sanne and leaves. After Mathijs has read Mias' letter in which she tells him about the death of his sister, he changes his mind. Happy about this, Mia assures her son that she will support him in his plan to study at the Institut Internationale De La Marionette in Charleville-Mézières in France . She also encourages Mathijs so that he wants to sue his father for maintenance. Jan van Haalen, meanwhile, wants to sue Mia for over € 48,000 because she signed an agreement at the time that forbids her to contact her child. At this point, however, he has no idea that the woman he wants to sue is Mia, with whom he has seriously fallen in love and with whom he has now spent a lot of time. The situation comes to a head when Mathijs discovers his father in Mia's bed and believes she is doing something with him. However, Mia had only recently understood during a conversation with Jan who the man she was in love with.

A circulatory collapse that overtook Jan's father Willem in his second-hand bookshop brings everyone together again. Fortunately, the old man recovers quickly and everyone celebrates it together on the houseboat. Jan tells his son that he has since bought the boat for him. There is a debate between father and son. Jan has changed quite a bit under the influence of Mia and tells Mathijs that he can study whatever he wants. And he didn't even know that he could sing so well. He was really proud of him.

production

Production notes

A summer in Amsterdam was from 16 July to 15 August 2013. Amsterdam turned. The film was produced by teamWorx Television & Film GmbH and UFA Fiction . The production manager was Tine Hoefke, the production manager Oliver Lüer and the production manager Holger Krenz. The responsible editor at ZDF was Rita Nasser.

publication

The ZDF exuded the film for the first time on 25 May 2014 the prime time in his program.

Edel Germany GmbH published Ein Sommer in Amsterdam on May 30, 2014 as part of the Ein Sommer in… series on DVD.

reception

Audience rating

When it was first broadcast, the film had 5.40 million viewers and its market share was 17.2 percent. When it was first rerun, 3.77 million viewers watched Ein [en] Sommer in Amsterdam , which equated to a market share of 11.6 percent, and when rerun in 2020 the film still attracted 3.58 million viewers , Market share 9.4 percent.

criticism

The critics of the TV magazine TV Spielfilm pointed their thumbs down and found: "Kitschy directorial ideas, bizarre twists: everything is included, nothing to it." Conclusion: "Nice Amsterdam pictures, but the rest ...".

Tilmann P. Gangloff , who rated the film, which he gave 3½ out of 6 possible stars for tittelbach.tv , saw more differentiated what read in the summary: “Ulrike Folkerts on Sunday once in the ZDF 'Herzkino' instead of on ARD 'crime scene'. And she convinces like all the other well-known actors. The story reads more stereotypically than the film. A woman seeks new courage after her daughter's accidental death in Amsterdam. 25 years ago she donated eggs to a married couple there. Now she not only finds a son, but also a new love. The romance 'A Summer in Amsterdam' by Karola Meeder based on the book by Thomas Kirdorf clearly points in the direction of drama. ”Apart from that, Karola Meeder staged the film with“ very careful craftsmanship, even if her work in the first half thanks to the frequent Impressions of canals and other sights look like an advertising film for the Dutch metropolis ”. The critic found the gibberish language gibberish about grandfather, father and son who would speak German with different accents or the son without an accent, an "acoustic flaw" that is easy to ignore given the performance of the two main actors , especially since Kirdorf wrote “wonderful dialogues”. Peeters is "always worth seeing" anyway. Ulrike Folkerts' performance should not surprise either, but since she is not seen so often outside the 'crime scene' , it is all the more impressive how “believable” she embodies Mia's change. Paula Kalenberg as Mia's deceased daughter is more than just an eye-catcher, from whom the mother always seeks advice, as is Lucie Heinze (as Mathijs' friend).

Erik Brandt-Höge said on the Prisma page “ Tatort star Ulrike Folkerts [could] do something different than tough: The Herzkino Schmonzette is clearly too deep into the kitsch trap”. The fact that the main character falls in love with the father of her child by chance, "without both knowing about each other's past", is only "one of numerous romantic to kitschy oddities". The director staged "above all Ulrike Folkerts, who is otherwise known as the straightforward ' Tatort ' commissioner, in an unusually pink look when she, for example, jump into a city fountain with her lover or throw shadow animals on the wall together". “The bottom line” is “it's all very 'pilcheresque', which also goes with the pretty pictures throughout, from cute Dutch cafes and houseboats to streets and alleys strewn with flowers”. Brandt-Höge also found “the constant appearances of the late Hannah, who regularly gave her mother from the afterlife clever advice” and showed her the way, exaggerated. "A little more ' Tatort ' Folkerts and a little less lard would certainly not have hurt the whole thing," wrote the critic in conclusion.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. A summer in Amsterdam see page zdf.de
  2. ^ A Summer in Amsterdam, TV film (series), 2013–2014, ZDF, Comedy, Love, Germany | Crew United
  3. A summer in Amsterdam Fig. DVD case from ZDF
  4. ^ A b Tilmann P. Gangloff : Series "A Summer in Amsterdam". Ulrike Folkerts, Filip Peeters, Kirdorf. Surprisingly good dialogues in the "Herzkino" see page tittelbach.tv. Retrieved July 12, 2020.
  5. ^ A summer in Amsterdam short review at tvspielfilm.de (including 12 film images). Retrieved July 12, 2020.
  6. Erik Brandt-Höge: A Summer in Amsterdam. Holland in pink see page prisma.de. Retrieved July 12, 2020.