Spring for beginners
| Episode of the Spring Series | |||
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| title | Spring for beginners | ||
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| Country of production | Germany | ||
| original language | German | ||
| Production company |
UFA fiction | ||
| length | 90 minutes | ||
| Age rating | FSK 6 | ||
| classification | Episode 2 ( list ) | ||
| First broadcast | March 25, 2012 on ZDF | ||
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| Director | Achim Bornhak | ||
| script | Natalie Sharp | ||
| production |
Nico Hofmann , Natalie Scharf |
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| music | Christoph Zirngibl | ||
| camera | Jochen Stäblein | ||
| cut | Regina Bärtschi | ||
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Spring for Beginners is a German television film from the spring television series by Achim Bornhak from 2012. It was first broadcast on ZDF on March 25, 2012 .
The film tells the story of the village helper Katja Baumann, played by Simone Thomalla , who supports families in emergency situations. It is the second film in a series that focuses on a village called Spring and the aid organization “Hand in Hand”.
action
In the small Bavarian village of “Frühling”, six-year-old Emma Gruber goes alone on her bike to see her grandfather on the mountain pasture. The neighbor observes this and informs Emma's father Georg. He tries to catch up with his daughter and just comes in after her white rabbit "Ricky", which she had taken with her, has escaped. During the chase across the fields, Emma's father suffers an acute lumbago and is taken to the clinic. When Emma's mother Steffi wanted to inquire about her husband's condition, the chief doctor informed her that there had been complications. Her husband fell into a coma due to a drug allergy and unfortunately died.
Katja Baumann is on her way to her new home with her seventeen year old daughter Kiki. After separating from her husband, she broke all tents behind her, quit her job as a nurse and now wants to work as a village helper in the village of “Frühling”. Kiki has absolutely nothing to do with living in this wasteland, especially since she has just returned from a year abroad.
Before Katja can unpack her things, she receives her first order. Due to the sudden death of Georg Gruber, his wife Steffi is unable to take care of her 80-year-old father Sepp, who lives all alone on his mountain pasture and is quite difficult. Katja gets in contact with Steffi Gruber, who expresses the hope that her father will turn a little to his daughter and granddaughter in his old age. So Katja sets out on the arduous journey to the dairy farmer Sepp. She can cover the first stretch with a chairlift, but then it's a 40-minute walk up into the mountains. Finally arrived, the old man leaves Katja in front of his hut and locks the window without a word. She has to look around the property and finds that the cows have not been manured for days. Without hesitation, she picks up some agricultural tools and gets to work. When she is done, she says goodbye with a shout towards the hut, whereupon the dairy farmer Sepp secretly looks through the glass pane of the window.
In the meantime, Kiki undertakes a tour of discovery through the village and gets to know the Gmeiner family. Her son Matze immediately shows interest in the young lady, but Kiki is extremely dismissive. She wants to get away from here as soon as possible and calls her father Peter in Munich so that he can pick her up. On the spur of the moment, Baumann gets into his car and drives to his daughter. But instead of going back to "civilization" with her immediately, he wants to take a few days' vacation first. He secretly hopes to win his wife back. When Katja, who has had a hard day behind her, returns and sees Peter, she is outraged. Without paying any further attention to him, she spends the evening with the vet Mark Weber. On this occasion she tells him about the cows on the mountain pasture and that she has the impression that a large number of the animals are sick. She asks him to take a look at the animals, which he hesitantly agrees.
The next morning, Katja undauntedly goes to the dairy farmer Sepp, who in turn receives her without a word and punishes her with disregard. A short time later, Mark Weber arrives and wonders why the animals are in the stable and not on the pasture. In terms of health, everything would be okay with them, he says, and then he helps Katja to clear out the stable. When Peter Baumann sees them both familiarly from the alpine pasture, jealousy grows in him. He wants to talk to his wife, but Katja only reproaches him for being unfaithful. Kiki is annoyed by the renewed argument between her parents and flees to the village, where she meets Matze again, whom she doesn’t encounter so unfriendly this time.
The next day, Katja's persistence had its first success. The dairyman Sepp no longer ignores her, but finally speaks. Together they bring the cows to pasture, which he no longer dared to do on his own, which is why he had kept them in the barn for weeks. Their relationship gets better with each passing day. He can finally be helped and even cooked. Katja, however, senses that the old man does not have a good relationship with his daughter. Since she and her brother did not want to take over his farm, he had renounced them. Katja wants both of them to talk to each other.
Steffi Gruber appears on the Alm with a doctor to let her father incapacitate. Katja stands up for him, but has no success. She feels betrayed by Steffi Gruber, as she now realizes that she wasn't interested in a reconciliation, but only wanted her father away from the Alm from the start to sell it. Katja doesn't want to accept that. She visits the dairyman Sepp in the nursing home and can hardly bear how the old man is now suffering. After all, he wanted to die on his farm and not in a home. But she also knows that father and daughter have to approach each other. You can do this through Emma. The prospect of riding a bike with his granddaughter prompts him to learn to ride a bike with Katja's help. When Steffi Gruber sees her daughter and father together, she is so touched that she refrains from her plan to sell the Alm for the time being.
Peter Baumann's attempt to reconcile with his wife Katja comes nowhere, Katja sticks to the decision she made. However, she would like him to take Kiki with him to Munich so that she can decide for herself what she actually wants. Kiki takes note of this with joy, but then decides differently than she sees Matze on the way back to Munich. She stays with her mother in "Spring", where she wants to start an internship.
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. The shooting took place in Bayrischzell and on Schliersee .
reception
Audience rating
When it was first broadcast on March 25, 2012, Frühling für Beginners in Germany was seen by 5.85 million viewers, which corresponded to a market share of 16.30 percent.
criticism
Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv comes to the conclusion: “This film is not a problem piece, not a moving piece, but an entertaining story of the village and relationship with enough proximity to reality and a lot of feeling. At the end of the day, watching this film can make your heart open. "
Sidney Schering, a critic atquote meter, praised the director and went on to write: “The tracking shots are more vital, the lighting is more consistent and the choice of music is not only imaginative, but also significantly more contemporary than you would ever expect in this type of television film. This is unlikely to convert a young audience to Heimatfilm, and how much the core target group of 'Spring for Beginners' will appreciate all of this is also questionable. But at least they are laudable efforts and set this film apart from comparable, carelessly turned down productions. "
The critics of the TV magazine TV Spielfilm judge: "After overcoming all the nasty crises, a lot of sweetener is spilled in the end, but you just can't be angry with this feel-good film and its actors." Conclusion: "Pretty tele-folklore for city wearies."
Web links
- Spring for beginners in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Spring for beginners in the dictionary of international films
- Information and broadcast dates at Fernsehserien.de
- Synopsis at moviepilot.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for spring for beginners . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , July 2015 (PDF; test number: 132 298-a V).
- ↑ Springtime Filming Locations for Beginners at Internet Movie Database , accessed December 8, 2014.
- ↑ Audience rating at digitalfernsehen.de, accessed on December 8, 2014.
- ^ Rainer Tittelbach: Spring series for beginners Thomalla, Feifel, Girnth, Bornhak, Natalie Scharf. Fresh cell treatment for the emotional genre of film criticism at tittelbach.tv, accessed on December 8, 2014.
- ↑ Sidney Schering: Die Kritiker: Spring for Beginners at quotenmeter.de, accessed on December 8, 2014.
- ↑ Spring for Beginners short review at tvspielfilm.de, accessed on December 8, 2014.