It's not over
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| Original title | It's not over |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2011 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Franziska Meletzky |
| script |
Kristin Derfler , Clemens Murath |
| production | Heike Streich |
| music | Johannes Kobilke |
| camera | Eeva Fleig |
| cut | Jürgen Winkelblech |
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It's not over is a television film by Franziska Meletzky that was broadcast on November 9, 2011 in prime time at 8:15 p.m. on ARD . He addresses the fate of a victim of the GDR regime who is caught up with his past.
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Jochen Weber is a personnel officer in a Koblenz hospital. His wife Carola, who grew up in Leipzig, gives music lessons in a school. She had to give up her intended career as a pianist because of a harvest accident in which she lost two fingers of her right hand. In addition, she is sterile, which is why the couple applied for adoption.
Jochen learns the truth about his wife's past, with whom he has been married for ten years, when he hires Professor Wolfgang Limberg from Chemnitz as chief physician of the hospital's neurological department. Limberg and his wife invite the Webers to a private dinner, which they leave after a short time, as Carola shows up. In fact, she believes that, based on Limberg's voice, she recognized the doctor whom she did not know face to face, who had treated her with psychotropic drugs against her will during her stay in the Hoheneck women's prison .
Limberg denies having been active in Hoheneck when Carola visits him the next day in the clinic and confirms her suspicions about the head. He confides in Jochen and suspects that Carola has a mental disorder because she is unable to process her experiences in Hoheneck. Jochen confronts his wife and she reveals to him that she was arrested in the late 1980s for attempting to flee the republic. The loss of her fingers is by no means due to a harvest accident, rather she was declared fit for work by Limberg and got her hand into a machine under the influence of the intoxicating and narcotic drugs. Since Jochen considers the new head physician to be a person of integrity, it is difficult for him to believe his wife's words, and he now also suspects that his wife may be mentally ill.
Regardless of this, Carola travels to Chemnitz to the Birthler authority . There she does not receive the real name of the doctor in charge at the time (code name "IM Tim" ), as hoped , but at least she learns the name of his commanding officer: Horst Weihe. Carola goes to Weihe immediately, but he claims that he doesn't know any "IM Tim" and that he does not know the name Limberg either. Carola tries a ruse and gives Weihe a phone number where he can allegedly reach Limberg. As soon as she leaves the house, her cell phone rings. She had given Weihe her own number, and he immediately tried to get in touch with Limberg.
The employee of the Birthler authority also gave Carola a reference to Renate Förster, who had also been sitting in Hoheneck and is now giving tours of the former prison. Carola overcomes herself and drives to Hoheneck, where her forester shows various photos that were taken during Carola's imprisonment. In fact, she recognizes Limberg in one of the photos. The latter again rejects all allegations and claims to have been in Cuba at the said time when Carola shows him the picture. However, she learns from Limberg's daughter that her father had been to Cuba, but had to break off his stay soon because of a hepatitis illness and returned to the GDR.
In the meantime, the youth welfare office has learned of Carola's detention and inpatient treatment for mental disorders in the early 1990s. She had concealed both circumstances at the time, so the adoption application is rejected. Since Carola suspects Limberg to be the driving force, she reports him to the medical association. But Limberg states that he has already applied for a self-assessment from the Birthler authorities and also refers to an opinion by a respected specialist who had certified Carola as having psychosis in 1991. The board acquitted him of all allegations. Jochen, who was present at the Limberg interrogation and was now learning more and more details from his wife's past, separated from Carola, becoming more and more emotionally estranged, leaving the marital apartment and staying with his sister Anne. Limberg, in turn, obtains an injunction against Carola, which forbids her to approach the family.
A few days later, after a nightmare, Carola wakes up with the window open, finds a stab in her arm and that parts of the Birthler authorities' documents have been stolen. She goes to Chemnitz again and learns of a recording of a conversation between "IM Tim" and Weihe. She receives it burned on a CD. Limberg, who has meanwhile also found out about the existence of the recording and has followed Carola, meets with consecration in front of the authorities. It turns out that Limberg had sent the 1991 report. Limberg demands from Weihe to have the said recording destroyed, but he has to assume that Carola already has it in her hands.
On the night drive home, Limberg pushed Carola off the road shortly after leaving the autobahn, so that she hit a tree. While trying to take the CD, Limberg is disturbed by a driver. Carola is admitted to her husband's clinic and given a single room. There Limberg goes to see her, admits that he recognized her at the invitation and tries to give her an injection with a deadly solution of potassium chloride. Since Carola had given her husband a message about evidence against Limberg on the mailbox immediately before the accident and he had already had doubts about Limberg's integrity through his own research, Jochen, who had meanwhile informed of the accident of his wife, arrives in good time and can Prevent Carola's killing. Limberg can be arrested without resistance.
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The writers let Tatjana Sterneberg's experiences flow into their script. In 1974 she was sentenced to several years' imprisonment for "establishing contact with the state and preparing to illegally cross the border", which she had to serve in Hoheneck before she was ransomed in 1976 by the Federal Republic of Germany.
In addition to the Hoheneck prison, the shooting locations were the cities of Koblenz, Baden-Baden and Berlin. The occupation of Ernst-Georg Schwill as a former commanding officer Weihe caused displeasure and irritation, since Schwill himself was demonstrably listed as an IM during the GDR times.
It's not over was shown on the 22nd anniversary of the opening of the Berlin Wall . With 5.58 million viewers and a market share of 18.3%, the film won the day on November 9th. The documentary film Die Frauen von Hoheneck , which was subsequently broadcast , also had only an insignificantly lower level of visual participation.
Selected by members of the German Academy of Performing Arts , the film was in 2011 when TV Film Festival Baden-Baden in the category of Academy of Performing Arts and special prizes TV movie Preis der Deutschen nominated, but was able to win in any category. He was also nominated for the 2012 Grimme Prize in the “Fiction” category.
Reviews
It's not over has received mostly positive reviews.
Christian Buß says, among other things, at Spiegel Online : “The ARD film cleverly brings GDR crimes into the present without ever boring with popular education. [...] Consistently and with partly Hitchcockian perfidy, director Franziska Meletzky ('Neighbors') drives her heroine through a course of psychological humiliation and social dismantling. [...] the life of the GDR victim threatens to collapse a second time. [...] The screenwriter Kristin Derfler and Clemens Murath manage to convey the central historical information about Hoheneck without taking the thriller out of its power. [...] Grandiose, how the ARD thriller with its two calm but efficient main actors Kling and Noethen conveys the continuity of the threat as a coherent fear scenario. "
Rainer Tittelbach sees "one or the other dramaturgical inconsistency". “But it is more important that the facts from the hero's biography, which was put together from various cases, are cleverly integrated into the flow of the plot, so that they give the emotionally tortured women a voice and that the topic that is forgotten in the East and largely unknown in the West is made available to a wide audience. 'It's never over' manages to lead a political-thematic discourse and at the same time to show what these experiences can do psychologically to you. "
Dieter Wunderlich identifies lengths in the script, but states: “Franziska Meletzky (director), Kristin Derfler and Clemens Murath (script) tell the painful story from the perspective of the protagonist. 'It is not over' illustrates that even twenty years after reunification, victims of the GDR regime are traumatized and that perpetrators work unrecognized in responsible positions. "
Web links
- It's not over the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for It's not over . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , October 2011 (PDF; test number: 129 757 V).
- ↑ Peter Zander: Excitement in the ARD: Stasi spy plays Stasi officer , Berliner Morgenpost from November 10, 2011 , accessed on December 6, 2017
- ↑ Michael Brandes: Odds: It is not over brings Tagessieg , article from November 10, 2011 , accessed on December 6, 2017
- ↑ Christian Buß: We inject you on the line! , Spiegel online from November 9, 2011 , accessed December 6, 2017.
- ↑ Viewing the film on the occasion of a repeat on May 27, 2017 , accessed on December 6, 2017.
- ↑ Film tip on Dieter Wunderlich's website , accessed on December 6, 2017.