Finally spring
| Episode of the Spring Series | |||
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| title | Finally spring | ||
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| Country of production | Germany | ||
| original language | German | ||
| Production company |
UFA fiction | ||
| length | 90 minutes | ||
| Age rating | FSK 6 | ||
| classification | Episode 8 ( list ) | ||
| First broadcast | February 8, 2015 on ZDF | ||
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| Director | Michael Karen | ||
| script | Natalie Sharp | ||
| production | Natalie Sharp | ||
| music | Siggi Muller | ||
| camera | Peter Joachim Krause | ||
| cut | Moune Barius | ||
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Finally spring is a German television film from the spring television series by Michael Karen . It was first broadcast on ZDF on February 8, 2015 .
The film tells the story of the village helper Katja Baumann, played by Simone Thomalla , who supports families in emergency situations and at the same time tries to bring spring into people's hearts. It is the eighth film in a series that focuses on a village called Spring .
action
Village helper Katja Baumann's new case leads them to the farm of the Feichtmayr family. While the eldest daughter was on the phone, her three-year-old brother Benny almost drowned in the bathtub. Now he is in the hospital in spring in the intensive care unit in a coma. As long as Benny's mother is by her son's side in the clinic, Katja wants to look after her two daughters and the farm. While little Christina is quite open-minded, Laura is very dismissive. She doesn't even allow herself to be comforted by her mother and Katja finds it difficult to get into contact with her. The children's father is a truck driver and is rarely at home. So the children are left to their own devices a lot and Katja stays with them overnight.
Katja speaks to Laura's father and lets him understand that his daughter needs a lot of attention now. She has the impression that she blames herself a lot and that is possibly why she is so dismissive. Even little Christina gets to feel the emotional outbursts of her big sister. Katja is a little at a loss as to where this extreme defensive stance is based. By chance she notices Laura hiding a bottle of schnapps, but it is not she who is addicted to alcohol, it is her mother. Both children have so far stood in front of her protectively so that no one notices that they are actually a case for the youth welfare office. Fearing that their family would be torn apart, they tried to relieve their mother of all the work.
Katja remains persistent and with a lot of empathy she succeeds in winning Laura's trust in the end. She also keeps her secret and only talks about it with her father, but he reacts differently than Katja would have expected and throws her from the yard. He doesn't want to admit his wife's alcohol problem either. Since Benny is doing better now and his mother wants to return to the farm, Katja fears that the old routine will continue if Laura's mother doesn't finally face her alcohol addiction. Since Katja can empathize with the situation, she tries to get Laura's mother to go into rehab. But it remains inaccessible. Only when the problems in the yard increase again and she almost sets the house on fire and Laura runs away, she finally realizes that she has to change something.
Laura flees to Katja and confesses that not only her mother drinks, but also her father and that it was he who put Benny in the bathtub and then fell asleep. As soon as she has finished her confession, Laura's father appears and wants to pick up his daughter. But she refuses to go. So he slowly realizes that things can no longer go on like this. Laura Katja later wrote in a letter that they were all on the right track.
Katja's private life is similarly turbulent. The relationship between vet Mark and his girlfriend Sophie is slowly getting into crisis and Kiki's friend Sam develops into a militant animal rights activist, which causes Mark big problems. But Sam is right to have one of the farms inspected where animal welfare regulations have been violated.
background
The episode was produced by ZDF in collaboration with “Seven Dogs Filmproduktion” and teamWorx Television & Film and broadcast as part of the ZDF “Herzkino” series.
reception
Audience ratings
When it was first broadcast on February 8, 2015, Endlich Frühling was seen by 5.45 million viewers in Germany, which corresponded to a market share of 14.9 percent.
criticism
Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv calls this film “one of the strongest so far from the ZDF -“ Spring ”series.” He goes on to write: “This is how you sense the title 'Finally Spring' in this light drama by one disturbed family structure relatively few. Although the fruit trees are in bloom in some pictures, the landscape, nature and attitude towards life are less in the foreground in this episode than in some of the thematically and dramatically weaker films from the fictional Bavarian village of Frühling. Instead, the field of psychology is plowed. Accordingly, it was the best decision to attach great importance to the cast of 'Endlich Frühling'. "
The critics of the TV magazine TV Spielfilm give this episode a "thumbs straight". They judge: "The eighth mission in the fictional Bavarian village of Frühling also uses applied amateur psychology to deal with problems that are taken from real life - but unfortunately again too many of them." Conclusion: "One or two dramas per episode are enough!"
Web links
- At last spring in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Finally spring at Fernsehserien.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Finally spring at tittelbach.tv , accessed on February 12, 2015.
- ^ Rainer Tittelbach: Finally spring film review at tittelbach.tv, accessed on February 12, 2015.
- ↑ Finally spring short review at tvspielfilm.de, accessed on February 12, 2015.