Breakfast with a stranger
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Breakfast with a stranger |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2007 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Maria von Heland |
| script | Martin Rauhaus |
| production |
Jaka Bizilj , Judy Tossell |
| music | Moritz Freise |
| camera | Gero Steffen |
| cut |
Patricia Rommel , Sylvain Coutandin |
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Breakfast with a Stranger is a German TV film from 2007 directed by Maria von Heland . The film deals with the fight against global poverty in the form of a romantic comedy and is a remake of the British television film G8 on cloud nine from 2005.
action
Laurens is a senior civil servant in the Federal Ministry of Finance and reports directly to the Federal Minister of Finance. Laurens has come a long way professionally and is a constantly functioning cog in the background of the political circus.
Laurens lives in the midst of numbers and only for his work ("When I am not working, I am working"). Private life or love relationships are foreign words for him and have no place in his life, which unsettles him, but ultimately seems immutable.
One morning he sits down with pretty Gina in a crowded café to organize his papers and thoughts and to have a coffee for breakfast. An unimportant conversation develops. Gina is a midwife and has just finished a busy day at work. Both are tired and yawning, which is not an ideal starting point for a romance. Nevertheless, by chance, the conversation continues outside the restaurant and they meet up with each other.
Both of them only show up for this appointment because they want to cancel. A persistent waiter and a mutual feeling of hunger let the common meal come about. When they happened to meet the finance minister, he invited Gina to come to the G8 conference in Heiligendamm as Laurens' companion .
Gina agrees and travels to Heiligendamm with the state escort in the borrowed shoes of her best friend . In Heiligendamm everything is polished to a shine and removed from the problems of the world that should actually be the subject of the summit. The summit participants come to terms with the problems of global warming and global poverty and do not struggle for solutions. However, Gina cannot bear this indifference and plunges the summit into chaos with her thoroughly honest but thoughtless attempts at conversation on the slippery society floor. Several times she reminds the German finance minister of the Millennium Development Goals and calls on him, as a voter, to do all he can to ensure that they are threatened to be fulfilled. Among the summit participants, polished smooth by political events, it acts like a grain of sand in the machine, bringing up unpleasant facts and forcing the summit participants to grapple with the reality of this world.
It comes to a scandal when she interrupts the Chancellor's speech at the farewell dinner and relentlessly accuses her and her colleagues of inaction in view of the 30,000 children who die every day from the consequences of poverty. Gina therefore has to leave the G8 summit and Laurens, who remains behind, will also be sent home at the next working meeting of the finance minister.
But Gina's fiery appeal seems to have achieved something. On the last day, the Chancellor surprisingly convened a working meeting of the eight heads of government on the subject of the Millennium Development Goals.
criticism
"Adaptation of an English television production that is tailored to German conditions and adapted to current affairs, which tries to spice up the genre of romantic (television) comedy with overly gentle social criticism."
Web links
- Breakfast with a stranger in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Breakfast with a stranger in the dictionary of international films