Hanna's decision
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Hanna's decision |
| Country of production | Germany , Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2012 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Friedemann Fromm |
| script | Benedikt Röskau |
| production | Regina Ziegler |
| music | Edward J. Harris |
| camera | Hanno Lentz |
| cut | Annemarie Bremer |
| occupation | |
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Hanna's Decision is a German-Austrian television film by Friedemann Fromm from 2012.
action
In the small Bavarian town of Neumarkt, Hanna Forster waited for years after the end of the Second World War for her husband Karl to return from a Soviet captivity.
During his absence, she continued to run his carpentry business independently, thereby ensuring a living for herself, her two children and her mother-in-law. She enjoys her work and the customers are satisfied, but Hanna lacks the master craftsman's certificate , which would be necessary for the management and continuation of the workshop under the new political conditions. In addition, there is competition from Adi Zollner, who is only moderately talented as a carpenter, but is preferred for public contracts because of his kinship with the mayor.
When Karl finally returns home after seven years of imprisonment, he immediately takes over the management of the business again. Due to the paralysis of his left arm, however, he is only able to work to a limited extent, and his pride prevents him from letting his wife help him. Since Hanna finds it difficult to limit herself to the role of housewife and mother again, the two spouses repeatedly quarrel, and Karl does not shy away from physical violence. Traumatized by war and imprisonment, he feels a vague anger that he can hardly control. At night he is regularly plagued by nightmares, against which Hanna gives him Pervitin . He has also lost his sexual potency.
When the joinery got into economic difficulties, Adi Zollner made Karl an offer to take over his company, which Karl refused. Meanwhile, Hanna applies behind the back of her husband, but with his forged signature at a vocational school for a carpenter's training, but fails because of her nervousness at the entrance exam. When Karl found out about this, he was so angry that he beat his wife up. Hanna now sees no longer any prospect of living together and resolves to leave him.
When trying to cope with the work in the carpentry shop on his own, Karl takes on larger and larger quantities of pervitin until he finally collapses and has to be hospitalized. To save the company, Hanna sells it to Adi Zollner during his hospital stay, for which she forges Karl's signature again. When Karl realizes what has happened on his return, an angry scuffle ensues, in which a shelf with turpentine oil containers falls over and sets the workshop on fire.
Hanna finally decides to leave her husband. Karl agrees on the condition that she never comes back. Her daughter Vera is allowed to take Hanna with her, while their son Michael is to stay with his father to learn the carpentry trade. As a farewell present, Karl sends his wife his master book and the address of a timber shop that is looking for a warehouse manager. Hanna and her daughter drive away in the car. It remains to be seen whether she will achieve her dream.
production
Hanna's decision is a production by the German Ziegler Film ( Regina Ziegler ) in coproduction with the Austrian Wega Film ( Veit Heiduschka ) for ARD . The film was shot in Styria in 2010 . It had its premiere on March 9, 2012 in the first .
criticism
"(TV) melodrama against the background of a time in which not only values and values shifted, but also ideals and ideas about life changed."
Awards
Christine Neubauer received the award for the best actress at the Festival de Télévision de Monte-Carlo 2012. The producers won the Monegasque Red Cross award. Hanna's decision was also nominated there in the categories of “best TV film”, “best director” and “best actor” (Edgar Selge).
Web links
- Hanna's decision in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Hanna's decision at the production company Ziegler Film
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Hanna's decision . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , January 2012 (PDF; test number: 130 775 V).
- ↑ Hanna's decision. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Festival de Télévision de Monte-Carlo: Tv Festival Palmarès 2012 ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2013 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. , accessed June 4, 2013
- ↑ Festival de Télévision de Monte-Carlo: List des Nommés ( Memento of the original of October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed June 4, 2013
