Learn to fly
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Learn to fly |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2013 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Christoph Schrewe |
| script |
Adrienne Bortoli Ulrike Zinke Barbara Wilde |
| production |
Degeto Film H&V Entertainment WDR |
| music | Birger Clausen |
| camera | Mathias Neumann |
| cut | Antonia Fenn |
| occupation | |
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Learning to Fly is a German television film by Christoph Schrewe from 2013 with Gesine Cukrowski and Franz Dinda in the leading roles.
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After separating from her husband Christian, the pharmacist Eva had to rearrange everyday life and feelings. Breaking up is not easy for her, as the divorce phase drags on and both meet regularly.
Out of the blue the young assistant doctor Hendrik bursts into her life, who rents the empty apartment of her son Emil, who has just moved out. When Hendrik helps her in an emergency, they both come closer and Eva kisses him. She is embarrassed at first, but she reports about it to her colleague and friend Ute the next day. Shortly afterwards she meets with Hendrik again. He strolls through the night with her and when they arrive at the outdoor pool, he climbs over the fence with her, they swim and spend the night together. Hendrik wants to be part of Eva's life, but she blocks. On the one hand because she is still in the middle of a divorce, on the other hand because Hendrik is thirteen years younger, which does not fit into her and the moral concept of the small town in which she lives. Nevertheless, she enjoys being coveted.
At a small town festival where Eva and Christian sit next to each other at the table in the usual way, Hendrik joins them and sits down next to Eva. When Christian notices how he trusts and touches Eva, he pours a glass of beer in his face and fights him. A bowl of water ends the fight very quickly and Eva now fears that it will become the talk of the town. Hendrik protests that he is serious and that he has fallen in love with her.
The pharmacy where Eva works is run by her mother-in-law. She is thinking of gradually withdrawing and handing all responsibility over to Eva. She takes the incident at the city festival as an opportunity to talk Eva into conscience. Christian also thinks he still has rights to them. Eva was the love of his life, no one else had a right to it. Her colleague Ute, however, encourages her to do what she wants herself. When Eva wants to lie down in her bed in the evening, Christian is already there and evaluates her relationship with Hendrik as a sexual cry for help. However, Eva immediately throws him out of the apartment and speaks to Hendrik.
In the meantime, the Heimatverein has distanced itself from her and elects a new chairwoman for the post that she had led well and without cause for criticism for years. Her mother-in-law also pulls out the next stop and gives Hendrik the apartment due to his own needs. So Eva offers him to move in with her, which he initially refuses. He doesn't want to bow to the quarrels of his fellow human beings and certainly doesn't want to sleep in Eva's ex-husband's house and bed. The love for Eva is stronger, however, and he changes his mind. Eva's son Robin, who still lives in the house, does not agree and moves in with his father. Eva's mother-in-law also continues to make life difficult for her and now wants to sell the pharmacy to a foreign applicant.
So that Eva can also get to know Hendrik's circle of friends, they give a party. But Eva notices that this is not exactly her world and way of life. When she finds out that she is pregnant and tells Hendrik about it, he is overjoyed. Her sons are outraged, however. Ex-husband Christian starts to tear down his half of the house with a wheel loader out of hurt vanity. Eva now makes it clear to him that he can do whatever he wants with his property, but only when he has properly signed the divorce papers. She also tells her mother-in-law that she will no longer allow herself to be bullied. Even so, Eva has the feeling that the whole world is against her. To make matters worse, she miscarried, which convinced her not to have a child at her age. However, Hendrik sees this as a decision against him too and moves out.
When her mother-in-law hears about Eva's miscarriage, she is so sorry that she gives in and now wants to leave the pharmacy to her. In the meantime Robin also notices what he had about his old home and he is not indifferent to the sadness of his mother. He moves back into his old room and his father finally signs the divorce papers.
In order to gain some distance from everything that has happened, Eva decides on a long-planned Africa project, where she can pass on her knowledge of naturopathy. Shortly before she wants to leave, Hendrik appears to tell her that he still loves her and that he wants to wait for her.
Production notes
The film premiered on German television on August 30, 2013 in Germany . Most of the filming took place in Gräfrath , a district of Solingen .
criticism
Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv describes this "sometimes quite freshly staged" film with the words: "Learning to fly is a [...] a love film that in the end cannot quite keep what it promised at the beginning. Gesine Cukrowski and Franz Dinda are a convincing couple; The opponents with Eva-Maria Hagen & Christoph M. Ohrt are also top-class. In the second half, the film loses its concentration a little, because the happy ending is plotted. [...] A little more openness and sense of self in the characters beyond this plot would have done the film good. You should also learn to fly at the Degeto. "
The Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung rated the film only as an “ARD Schmonzette”. The critics say: “If you've seen a Friday night monzette, you've actually seen them all. Like here. Plugged together in a modular system, cranked down in assembly line work and pasted up with slimy music, the same musty narrative patterns of hundreds of similarly unrealistic films are served here. Especially since the conflict “older woman loves younger man” should no longer be suitable for a “scandal”. And so the whole thing remains, despite a charming Gesine Cukrowski in the lead role, only one thing: stale. A cinematic dime novel, financed with millions in radio fees. Unfortunately, only the design is cheap here. "
The TV movie awarded an average rating (thumb side) and wrote: "Romance is in the descent between silliness and with a touching earnestness." After all, keeping the dialogues constant telenovela altitude, and chief pilot Cukrowski prevented marginally crash landing. Overall, TV Spielfilm drew the following conclusion: “Comedy? Drama? Well what now? ".
Web links
- Learn to fly in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of the film on the ARD website ( memento from August 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Start dates for learning to fly . In: IMDb.de. Retrieved September 5, 2013 .
- ^ Rainer Tittelbach film review on tittelbach.tv, accessed on February 21, 2014.
- ↑ TV review: ARD Schmonzette “Learn to fly” on noz.de, accessed on February 20, 2014.
- ↑ See tvspielfilm.de