Lucky child

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Movie
Original title Lucky child
Country of production Germany
Publishing year 2014
length 89 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Michael Verhoeven
script Michael Verhoeven
production Sabine Tettenborn
music Jörg Lemberg (with pieces by Azhar Kamal and Steven Uhly )
camera Conny Janssen
cut Saskia Metten
occupation

Glückskind is a German TV film directed by Michael Verhoeven from 2014 with Herbert Knaup in the leading role. The literary adaptation of the novel by Steven Uhly describes the path of a man who draws new courage to live from the fate of an infant .

action

Hans Scholz lives a dreary life at Reinhold-Frank-Straße 12 in Weststadt, a district of Karlsruhe . After an affair many years ago, his wife left him and took away their daughter. Only a worn picture on a dirty refrigerator reminds of her.

Scholz lives secluded in a large apartment block. His apartment is neglected and, to the chagrin of his neighbor, Mr Tarsi, he has not done his cleaning duties in the stairwell for a long time. One day when the unemployment benefit II recipient wanted to throw his garbage in the garbage can, he discovered an infant there. He takes him to his apartment, washes the child and takes care of it in a makeshift way. Since he has no more money, he asks the kiosk owner Wenzel for help on the pretext that his daughter had brought him the grandchild. He had always helped him out in the past. However, Wenzel doubts this story. In addition, the police are currently looking for an infant who is said to have been killed by its mother. Wenzel suspects that the baby is the child we are looking for and that it is still alive. However, he keeps his idea to himself and lends Scholz money again.

Scholz, on the other hand, sees a task in taking care of the helpless being. He tidies up his apartment, did the dishes and cleans in order to give "Felizia", ​​his lucky child, a beautiful environment. His neighbors - the Tarsi couple - notice the child and confront him. Scholz is afraid that the baby will be taken away from him, but the tarsis support him. When Felizia suffered from severe diarrhea , they even put him in contact with a family doctor friend , who examined the little one and found she was severely dehydrated . He keeps the child in his practice for one night and treats it. In the immediate vicinity of the family doctor, Scholz discovers that a friend of his daughter's from earlier times still lives there. He goes to her, but she doesn't want to help him or give him the address of his daughter.

Scholz can pick up Feliza the next day from the general practitioner's practice and take it back to him. He and Tarsis take loving care of the child. At the same time, the pressure to search for the mother and the missing baby is increasing. And Mr. Wenzel, also single, wants his “share” in the child. He demands from Scholz that they both pull it up together. After all, every child has two grandfathers. Scholz contacts the accused mother and drives to her in the remand prison . She can hardly believe that he saved her daughter, but does not want to help him. However, she is already on charges of murder and demands that Scholz hand the child over to her husband. Scholz, in turn, wants to claim that she gave the child into his care. With a heavy heart Scholz goes to see the child's father. He also claims to him that his wife gave him the child and does not mention that she threw it in the garbage can.

A process ensues in which the child mother gets away with a black eye for a breach of duty of care. Scholz, on the other hand, cannot be proven that he unlawfully brought the child into his power, so that he remains unpunished. When he gets home, a note hangs on his door. It contains his daughter's address. Scholz takes the train to Berlin .

background

The film was produced by Maran Film for Südwestrundfunk . The shooting took place in March and April 2014 in Karlsruhe , Rastatt and Baden-Baden . The first broadcast was on November 21, 2014 on Arte . Five days later was lucky child in first and reached there 5.25 million viewers and a market share of 16.8%.

criticism

Thomas Gehringer from Tittelbach.tv saw a "feel-good film" with "uncomplicated dramaturgy" and an "overly pleasing ending". Frank Juergens from the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung saw weaknesses in the adaptation of the novel. In his opinion, the viewer finds out too late what drove Scholz into his initial situation. Even the end could not convince, it seemed "implausible".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Glückskind . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , November 2014 (PDF; test number: 148 317 V).
  2. ↑ SWR press kit on Glückskind , p. 6
  3. ↑ a b Child of Fortune. In: Tittelbach.tv . Retrieved November 29, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Frank Jürgens: Touching: Happiness child . In: Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung , November 21, 2014, accessed on November 23, 2014.