Fresh Wind (TV Movie)

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Movie
Original title Fresh wind
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2011
length 89 minutes
Rod
Director Imogen Kimmel
script Gabriele Circle
production Heike Wiehle-Timm ,
Astrid Ruppert ,
Daniela Mussgiller
music Eike Hosenfeld ,
Moritz Denis
camera Guntram Franke
cut Guido Krajewski
occupation

Fresh Wind is a German television film from 2011 that was made in 2008.

The first explained about the first broadcast of the film: “The title could not have been better chosen: A 'fresh wind' often blows through this sensitively developed story, in which the motif of the return to life after a dramatic beginning slowly turns into a cheerful, melancholy, hopeful one Description of personal new beginnings developed. In the sensitive staging by director Imogen Kimmel , the characters gain more and more depth, reveal their strengths and weaknesses in a comprehensible way, which is not least due to the cast: Günther Maria Halmer embodies the grieving widower, who is also the proud patriarch, in his inimitable level-headed manner and wants to be a romantic galan, Teresa Weißbach knows how to convince Luzy as a life-affirming muse. Floriane Daniel also shines in strong supporting roles as the overwhelmed daughter Karin and the incomparable Ingeborg Westphal , whose fate-tanned artist Ruth exudes a very special magic. ” Dirk Martens , Ole Tillmann and Farina Flebbe complete the ensemble in leading roles.

action

The death of his wife has thrown the Hamburg glove manufacturer Kurt Tobaben completely off course. Her excruciating battle with cancer lasted two years . Kurt has been alone for half a year and simply can't come to terms with having lost the woman who meant everything to him.

One evening he gets up and goes to Travemünde , where he visits the bar of a hotel where the couple often went together. There he happened to meet Luzy Ditten, who worked there as a barmaid and in the hotel as a maid. He notices the young woman because of her refreshing and empathetic manner. Luzy, in turn, is deeply impressed by the tenderness with which Tobaben speaks about his wife.

Back home, Tobaben decides to stay in the hotel in Travemünde and look for Luzy's company. Together they do a lot and Kurt Tobaben lets himself be infected by Luzy's zest for life. Luzy accepts his proposal to work for him as his partner.

Karin Kracht, Tobaben's married daughter , is not exactly friendly to the “Siren from Bitterfeld ”, as she calls her, as she assumes that she is her father's lover. So-called fine society also blaspheme the unequal couple. After Karin has spoken to her husband Viktor, however, she follows his advice to take a step towards her father and Luzy and invites both of them to dinner at his home. During dinner there is a scandal when Tobaben's son Kai finally admits to his father that he has not been studying for a long time in order to one day take over the company, but is training to be a chef. His dream is to run his own restaurant one day. Tobaben is outraged about this breach of trust and shows it clearly, after all, he supported Kai financially for years. When he expresses this, Karin says sharply what the convertible cost that he gave Luzy. Kurt's anger drives him into the garden, where he throws his cigarillo over a hedge. It ends up burning in Ruth Brede's lap. The artist, who is friends with Karin Kracht, lived in Ibiza until recently . Kurt apologizes and starts a long conversation with the woman who is immediately likeable to him. She tells him about her work as a visual artist and that she simply needs her work. She also solves a blockade with Kurt, so that he visits his company again and makes sure that everything is okay. Since some things are not going the way he wants, he decides to take over the management himself again.

Luzy feels more and more superfluous because Kurt spends little time with her due to his professional demands. So she decides to tell him it is time to go. Luzy has not given up her dream of one day owning her own small restaurant. With the money earned by visiting the casino, she already has the initial capital together. Spontaneously, as is her way, she asks Kai if he could imagine starting such a project with her after completing his training, which he can do. But before Luzy leaves, she manages to get father and son to approach each other again and Kurt even praises his son's cooking skills. Likewise, he approaches his daughter and gives her the attention she has sorely missed over the years. And he asks her if she could imagine joining the company. Of course Karin can, because - unlike her brother - that was always her wish. After Kurt was also able to correct a misunderstanding that Ruth was subject to regarding his relationship with Luzy, his relationship with the artist also turns out to be promising. Given that they don't have that much time left, they want to spend the lifespan that remains to them together.

Filming, production notes

The shooting took place between October 7th and November 6th, 2008 in Hamburg, Travemünde and the surrounding area. The film was produced by Relevant Film Produktionsgesellschaft mbH on behalf of ARD Degeto for Das Erste. The editing for ARD Degeto was with Astrid Ruppert and for NDR with Daniela Mussgiller. However, the film didn't come on television until February 2011.

The soundtrack features the song Respect by Aretha Franklin .

reception

Publication, audience rating

Fresh wind was broadcast for the first time on February 4, 2011 in the main evening program of ARD . The audience rating was 4.35 million viewers and corresponded to a market share of 13.3 percent.

criticism

Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv gave the film 3½ out of 6 possible stars and described it as a “fresh wind”: “… the title is a promise - and the film by Imogen Kimmel and Gabriele Kreis keeps this promise. It's a feel-good film in which everything is better than in comparable Degeto productions on Friday. It starts with characters who have a psychological 'core', which is evident in the relaxed way the two fundamentally different main characters deal with social conventions ('And when people talk, we let them talk') and continues in aesthetics, for example the finely accentuated, sparingly used musical background. The ARD program makers don't seem to have felt this breath of fresh air - otherwise the production wouldn't have had to wait almost two years before it was broadcast. "

Tilmann P. Gangloff took care of the film on the Kino.de website and said, "Teresa Weißbach" makes "this film about a widower who finds new courage to live with the help of a young woman into a romantic drama that is well worth seeing". Günther Maria Halmer provides "the widowed Hamburg shoe manufacturer with a lot of dignity and even more sadness". Halmer was "good as always", which was "to be expected". “All the greater” is “the lasting impression that Teresa Weißbach” left. "The blonde Saxon, so far below value mainly in supporting roles" [...] plays "so refreshing that you like to be enchanted together with Kurt Tobaben". “Cleverly”, “Author Gabriele Kreis does not reduce the plot to a simple good / bad scheme”. Halmer and Weißbach would “harmonize so well with each other” that one “could generously overlook the occasional borrowing from the script in ' Pretty Woman ' ”. "Successful" was "also the balance between romantic closeness and simple friendship, because it remains open for a long time whether the attractions between the widower and the whirlwind are not also of an erotic nature".

The TV feature film editorial team, on the other hand, spoke of a “TV Schmonzette” in which a “gray panther grabs a blonde gazelle” and continued: “It is decent for the target group, garnished with all kinds of subplots (scandal: the student son cooks secretly in the restaurant). The result is a bland Degeto drop, flat on the tongue and slightly rancid on the finish. ”The conclusion was then thumbs down:“ There is only one point for this mess. ” Cinema dismissed the film similarly. There they were of the opinion: "Not much good."

Jürgen Kirsch fromquotemeter.de was more likely, albeit more detailed, with the last two critics d'accorcd. The film produced by the “ARD film company Degeto” had “the fate of relying too much on compassion” or “squeezing the tear glands”, which threatened the film “to slide quickly into the area of ​​the Schmonzette”. "The actors - above all the main actor Günther Maria Halmer - could arouse a little sympathy, but their characters seemed a bit too artificial or overdrawn". Sometimes they are "very clichéd and kitschy therefore" [...]. In some scenes the film was "applied far too thick". In “other places”, on the other hand, “the dialogues were more than greasy” and were “sometimes not immune to a little silliness”. The script was also "not very convincing". [...] A “clear line” is “not recognizable”. When “telling the lengthy story” it is better to “step on the spot”. 'Fresh wind' is therefore “if at all a mild breeze that is more like a discovery of slowness in the narrative style”. Where “any depth and tension” is missing, “the dramatic, emotional scenes could no longer score”. The film will "not go down well with the audience either".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A breath of fresh air see page daserste.de
  2. ↑ Start of shooting for ARD television film "Fresh Wind" see page digitalfernsehen.de. October 7, 2008. Accessed July 18, 2020.
  3. ^ A b Rainer Tittelbach : TV film "Fresh Wind". Halmer, Weißbach, Westphal, Floriane Daniel in a life-wise feel-good film see page tittelbach.tv. February 4, 2011. Accessed July 18, 2020.
  4. ↑ tpg : Fresh wind see page kino.de (including photo series). Retrieved July 18, 2020.
  5. ↑ A breath of fresh air see page tvspielfilm.de (including 20 film images). Retrieved July 18, 2020.
  6. ↑ Fresh wind see page cinema.de. Retrieved July 18, 2020.
  7. ↑ Jürgen Kirsch: Fresh Wind See page quotenmeter.de February 3, 2011 (deflection: 10%). Retrieved July 18, 2020.