It's all right
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | It's all right |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2013 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Nicole Weegmann |
| script |
Christina Ebelt , Ingo Haeb |
| production |
Harry Flöter , Jörg Siepmann , Julia Röskau |
| music | Birger Clausen |
| camera | Ngo The Chau |
| cut |
Andrea Mertens , Nicole Kortlüke |
| occupation | |
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It's all in order is a German TV drama by Nicole Weegmann from 2013 with Silke Bodenbender , Mark Waschke and Sinje Irslinger in the leading roles. The television film is about the conditions and excesses of domestic violence in a well-off middle class family .
action
Birgit is on summer vacation in Holland with her husband Andreas, their son Philipp and their 13-year-old daughter Sarah from a previous relationship. The family idyll seems perfect and is only subliminally clouded by Sarah's exaggerated, pubescent provocations, which are directed against Andreas. On the way back home, there is a heated argument over an insignificance. The emotions boil: Sarah slaps her uninvolved little brother and is then thrown out of the car by Andreas.
Back home, Sarah's provocations increase. Andreas feels increasingly helpless and complains to his wife that she would not support him. Birgit reacts with appeasement and says that Andreas' planned adoption of Sarah will resolve all problems. Overtaxed by the situation and disappointed with Birgit's lack of solidarity, Andreas leaves the family.
Birgit suffers a lot from the separation. Growing up fatherless, her ideal of a happy family without a husband cannot be lived. She seeks consolation in her daughter, but blames her for Andreas moving out. In her pain, Birgit loses touch with reality and leaves the organization of everyday life to Sarah. The mother also swears her daughter to keep Andreas' move a secret from friends and neighbors. Sarah tries to live up to her duties. However, their excessive demands quickly become apparent in an increasingly aggressive behavior towards classmates.
Birgit is now so overwhelmed that she suffers a sudden hearing loss and is admitted to a hospital. Andreas is concerned and takes care of her. Sarah gratefully accepts Andreas' help and he moves back in with his family.
But the conflicts flare up again very quickly. Andreas now reacts to Sarah's hostility with open violence. Sarah mobs, Andreas strikes, the two make up. When Sarah finally shows her mother the injuries and bruises that Andreas inflicted on her, Birgit accuses her of lying. Left alone, Sarah directs her aggression against Birgit from now on.
Andreas' violent attacks are increasing and becoming more brutal. Birgit is aware of this, but in her desperate attempt to live a clichéd family idyll, she does not understand what is going on, although friends and neighbors ask her more and more about Sarah's physical injuries. One day when she and Philipp encounter the abused and imprisoned Sarah in the basement, she can no longer avoid reality. Birgit and the children leave the house.
background
It's all in order was produced for Das Erste by 2Pilots Filmproduction on behalf of Westdeutscher Rundfunk . The shooting took place from March 14, 2013 to April 17, 2013 in Cologne and the surrounding area as well as in Holland . The television film premiered on October 25, 2013 at the Hof Film Festival. On January 15, 2014, the television premiere of the FilmWittwoch series took place in the First .
Reviews
The FAZ wrote that the film was one of the “best studies of domestic conflicts in recent years”. The film would "not depict mere perpetrator and victim roles", but "show a fatal" family system, "in which the individual members are dependent, socially isolating components". The viewer is exposed to a “tightrope walk between disgust and comprehensibility”, “which is not least caused by the irritating light-flooded images and angles” of the film camera.
Der Spiegel attested that the “force” of the film was based on “the clever structure of the plot” and kino.de said that the “quality of the script” was also evident in its “everyday proximity”.
The Berliner Zeitung praised the “great” acting performance of Silke Bodenbender and Mark Waschke, the “excellent” camera work by Ngo The Chau and the coherent, “rhythm” editing of the film by Andrea Mertens. Sinje Irslinger, however, is the “sensation” of the film. The young woman's great talent is shown in the fact that "you can relieve your figure of the injury and the aggression in equal measure".
The magazine film-dienst , on the other hand, criticized the film as a "not very original (television) family drama in which there is all sorts of hustle and bustle before the foreseeable happy end".
Awards
Sinje Irslinger won the sponsorship award at the German Television Prize 2014 , Silke Bodenbender and Mark Waschke were nominated for Best Actors . In 2014 Nicole Weegmann was nominated in the category Best Director and Andrea Mertens in the category Best Film Editing at the awards of the German Academy for Television .
Web links
- It is all right in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Everything is fine at filmportal.de
- Everything is fine in the online film database
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Start of shooting for the WDR television film "It's all in order". WDR , March 14, 2013, accessed January 24, 2014 .
- ↑ WDR productions at the Hofer Filmtage: Premiere for Nicole Wegmann's family drama "It's all in order" and two cinema co-productions. WDR , October 23, 2013, accessed on February 24, 2015 .
- ↑ Wednesday, January 15, 2014, 8.15 p.m. It's all right. (PDF) In: Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln . Retrieved January 14, 2014 .
- ↑ Heike Hupertz: TV film “It's all in order”. Father strikes, mother looks away. FAZ , January 14, 2014, accessed on January 24, 2014 .
- ↑ Christian Buß : ARD film on domestic violence: father, mother, victim. Der Spiegel , January 15, 2014, accessed on January 24, 2014 .
- ↑ tpg: Everything is fine. Germany 2013. In: kino.de . Busch Entertainment Media , accessed February 14, 2015 .
- ↑ Klaudia Wick : ARD drama "It's all right". This film asks uncomfortable questions. Berliner Zeitung , January 14, 2014, accessed on January 24, 2014 .
- ↑ Everything is fine. film service , accessed February 14, 2015 .
- ↑ The NOMINATED for the 2014 awards from the GERMAN TELEVISION ACADEMY. (No longer available online.) German Academy for Television , archived from the original on February 14, 2015 ; accessed on February 14, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
