Divine sparks
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Divine sparks |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2014 |
| length | 89 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Maria von Heland |
| script |
Sathyan Ramesh , Mary of Heland |
| production |
Stephanie Heckner , Stefan Kruppa , Nataly Kudiabor |
| music |
Alasdair Reid , Kriton Klingler-Ioannides |
| camera | Moritz Anton |
| cut | Uta Schmidt |
| occupation | |
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Divine Sparks is a German moral drama by Maria von Heland from 2014 . It was first broadcast on May 30, 2014 on Das Erste .
action
Matthias wants to marry his great love Diana. All friends help to make the day really festive. The wedding guests are eagerly waiting for the pastor so that the wedding ceremony can begin, but he has to cancel unexpectedly. An accident prevents him from coming, but he spontaneously sends a replacement. Matthias doesn't believe he can trust his eyes. In front of him is his childhood sweetheart Lily, whom he has not seen for 25 years. So it is not surprising that their eyes meet again and again at the wedding celebration. Lily is happy to see Matthias so happy again and invites him and his wife to dinner at her home. She is married to Jan, who was also in her class at the time. The four spend a happy evening together and indulge in memories of their youth. Diana learns that her Matthias and Lily used to be a couple.
While Diana is on the road as a stewardess, Matthias stays at home to oversee the conversion of an old mill into a nice, cozy home. He is an artist himself and works there in a small workshop. He makes stone carvings for the nearby Walhalla .
Matthias, Diana, Lily and Jan go to a class reunion for a weekend. A lot of alcohol is drunk there. Matthias fights a former classmate, and Jan falls off a bar stool drunk and has to be looked after by an emergency doctor. They then swap the room occupancy, and Matthias stays with Jan while Lily shares the room with Diana. Diana is disappointed that Matthias didn't proudly present her to the others as his wife, but was quite absent the whole evening.
Matthias and Lily try not to admit their old feelings. They meet again and again, spend time together, kiss. At first only to say goodbye, but later more intensely. It only seems a matter of time before they sleep together. Diana travels a lot, and Lily's marriage is in a crisis from which pastors are not immune. So both hesitate because they are aware of the responsibility towards their spouse, but cannot prevent it. Both speak guiltily to their partners. Jan is disappointed with Lily's infidelity, but also wants to forgive her. Diana, however, packs her things and wants to leave Matthias. She runs into Jan by chance on a walk on the banks of the Danube . As like-minded people, they comfort each other and travel to the mountains together to process their disappointment. Actually, this should be Diana's honeymoon, which she is now going on with Jan. The longer they are together, the more they feel that they like each other a lot.
Matthias and Lily are meanwhile beside themselves with worry, because Jan and Diana did not come back and did not leave a message. Since Matthias and Diana should actually be on their honeymoon, he drives Lily to the mountain hut they booked. All four of them are now standing there in a room full of guilt and reproaching each other. But they also find opportunities to talk about their feelings. Mattias explains to Diana that all these years he tried to forget Lily and only did it when she stepped into his life. He assures Diana that he loves her. The fact that Lily of all people reappeared for their wedding is a test of their love for each other.
Lily also feels more and more that she actually loves Jan. Since the affair has not gone unnoticed in her community, she announces that she is stepping down as pastor. Your community doesn't see it that closely and wants to keep it. After all, she is only a person who is tested by God, like all of them. So Jan also manages to forgive her, and the four of them remain friends despite their brief exchange of partners.
background
Divine Sparks was filmed from September 10, 2013 to October 11, 2013 in Regensburg and the surrounding area as well as in Munich and Austria , and was first broadcast on May 30, 2014 on Das Erste . The St. Oswald Church on the Eiserner Steg in Regensburg was selected for the wedding scene. The shooting in Regensburg was made extremely difficult by construction work in the city, so that hardly any scenes were woven into the plot by the city itself. “It's actually a shame for a really beautiful city that misses a good chance here”.
Director Maria von Heland has Anna Maria Mühe , who embodies in this film Diana, for her movie Big girls do not cry discovered in a cafe in Berlin.
reception
Audience rating
The film was seen by 3.29 million viewers when it was first broadcast, which corresponds to a market share of 11.8 percent. For the advertising-relevant target group of 14 to 49 year olds, the figure was 0.39 million and 4.9 percent.
Reviews
Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv says about this film: “'Divine Sparks' is […] a little revelation in terms of film aesthetics. The sensual, playful entry with its soft, white-dipped sequence of cuts with the extremely large settings already announces that something extraordinary is to be expected here. [...] Maria von Helands film is emotional television in the best sense of the word. Conversations open up the characters for the viewer, bring them closer to the previous history, interpreted from today's perspective, and drive everyday events forward in a realistic rhythm. Attitudes, inner convictions, the sense of the soul - none of that is held up against you by this film about love. […] [And] von Heland and cameraman Moritz Anton are always close to the protagonists without neglecting the image: the locations, the equipment, the colors, the costume, everything plays a role, but is not only beautiful and elegant, but is (like the music) developed from the spirit of the characters. "
Also Tilmann P. Gangloff in the Frankfurter Rundschau judges approvingly: "The love story is mainly thanks Striesow and Anna Maria Mühe played a wonderful and surprisingly sophisticated [TV movie]."
Barbara Möller at Welt.de comments: “What a great film. Not a love film, but a film about love. About a school leaving examination. Emotional television without the touch of kitsch. Without drama. Without melodrama. A story about the omission of caution. And about forbearance. With yourself and with others. Narrated without frills (director: Maria von Heland) and staged in simple beauty by cameraman Moritz Anton. (Anyone who has never been up to the Walhalla will definitely want to catch up on that after this film.) Television is seldom like that. But that's how television can be. "
The Frankfurter Neue Presse also only had words of praise and wrote: “This dense drama is free from kitsch and false tones and shows a love story as a painful process of growing up. And really good. "
The television magazine TV Spielfilm gave the best possible rating (thumbs up) and found: "Despite its weaknesses, the Dramolet convinces thanks to its engaging actors and a certain seriousness." In conclusion, it says: "Never divine, but warmly earthly."
Rupert Sommer is the only one who writes critically at Voice.de, as the film "could also be a quickly told penny novel anecdote". “The drama 'Divine Sparks' [...] tries not to get too much into kitsch faux pas. [...] The film is therefore less a flat romantic comedy than a love drama, which also wants to include religious questions appropriately and thereby revolves around the difficulty of making the right decisions in life at all. [...] This film wants to tell the long story and takes its time. "
Web links
- Divine spark in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Divine Sparks ( Memento from June 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on DasErste.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Film length at filmdienst.de, accessed on November 18, 2014.
- ↑ Divine Sparks on crew-united.com; accessed on October 27, 2014.
- ↑ Shooting at regensburger-nachrichten.de, accessed on November 18, 2014.
- ↑ Audience ratings , at quotenmeter.de, accessed on November 18, 2014.
- ^ Rainer Tittelbach: Film review at tittelbach.tv, accessed on November 18, 2014.
- ↑ Tilmann P. Gangloff : What use is love in thoughts? at fr-online.de, accessed on November 18, 2014.
- ↑ Barbara Möller: No reason to run straight out of church at welt.de, accessed on November 18, 2014.
- ↑ "Divine Sparks": This love drama is special at fnp.de, accessed on November 18, 2014.
- ↑ See tvspielfilm.de
- ↑ Rupert Sommer: Film Review ( Memento of the original from November 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from Stimme.de, accessed on November 18, 2014.
