Help, my daughter is getting married
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| Original title | Help, my daughter is getting married |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2006 |
| length | 90 minutes |
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| Director | Ulrich König |
| script | Christiane Sadlo |
| production | Martin Hofmann |
| music | Rainer Oleak |
| camera | Ludwig Franz |
| cut | Claudia Fröhlich |
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Help, my daughter is getting married is a German Christmas comedy by Ulrich König from 2006. Ulrich Pleitgen plays a father who finds it difficult to see that his daughter, played by Arzu Bazman , has grown up. The main roles are occupied by Jaecki Schwarz , Saskia Valencia and Luca Zamperoni .
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Julia Weimann was in the USA for a year. Shortly before Christmas, the almost twenty-year-old is expected back by her father, the Dresden lawyer Julius Weimann. Together with Julius 'friend and partner in the joint office and also Julius' godfather Harald Mauthe, Julius picks up his daughter from the airport. A surprise awaits both of them there, the almost 20 year old is in the company of a man she wants to marry for Christmas, as she announces to her father. Thomas Berner is an event manager with his own agency and is 34 years old. According to Julius, ancient compared to his daughter. For the first time there is a serious argument between father and daughter.
Julius thinks he has to resort to drastic measures and assigns a private detective to monitor Thomas. By chance, Julia notices this and now turns completely away from her father. She hires Sara Stein from the Bernstein agency, and thus Thomas's partner, to plan her wedding. Harald Mauthe asks Sara to intervene in order to improve the relationship between father and daughter again. He also does a lot himself so that father and daughter can finally sit down and talk - with success.
Hardly everything seems to be in order, Julius sees Thomas walking by arm in arm with a young woman during a client conversation he is having in town and follows them both. He has to meekly admit his mistake when Thomas introduces the young lady to him as his sister. The wedding preparations are now in full swing; Julia turns everything upside down in her father's house in order to realize her dream of a wedding like in the ice palace of the Snow Queen . An initial uncertainty arises for Julia in a conversation with Pastor Heinemann, and then several of her friends also complain that Julia will give up her freedom with a marriage. Torn by her feelings, the young woman explains to her father that she was wrong and does not want to get married. Her fear of having to leave behind what has made her life so far seems too great. Julius, who has since taken a liking to Thomas, is at a loss.
Sara thinks, when Julius, Harald, Thomas and they sit together, maybe Julia just panicked that she was still so young. With Julian's help, Thomas has found out that Julia is staying with her friend Sandra and appears there and demands an answer. When she tells him that she no longer knows whether she still loves him, he turns away with a deeply sad look and leaves. Julius now takes the initiative and lets Julia choose a Christmas tree in the forest. She quickly realizes what her father is telling her. And on Christmas Eve, her godfather Harald also tells her why he never married. Julia wants to bring Thomas to the Christmas party, but learns from Sara that he is on the way to the airport because he is going back to the States. At the last moment, Julia reaches him and makes it clear to him that she really loves him. On the day of the wedding, a happy father leads his daughter to the altar. “Julia is in good hands,” Sara says to Julius, “and what about you?” A kiss and a captured bridal bouquet are enough of the answer.
Production notes, publication
The film was produced by Askania Media Filmproduktion for MDR . It was shot from November 16 to December 20, 2004 in Dresden .
On December 20, 2006 it premiered on ARD Das Erste . In France it was broadcast on May 9, 2007 under the title La père de ma fiancée .
The film was released on DVD RC-2 on May 4, 2010, through Mercenary Pictures.
Audience rating
Help, my daughter is getting married , was seen by 7.05 million viewers when it was first broadcast, which equates to a market share of 21.4%.
criticism
The magazine TV Spielfilm gave its worst rating (thumbs down) and found: “Pure TV kitsch with artificial snow and glitter decoration.” Conclusion: “Feelings, as artificial as a plastic fir”.
Rainer Tittelbach from Tittelbach.tv gave just one of the six stars to be awarded and was of the opinion: “Fathers and daughters who can't let go - a popular topic! It was rarely told as badly as in 'Help, my daughter is getting married'. Cardboard figures and plastic feelings, kitsch and artificial snow, lost actors - and the dialogues oscillate between calendar wisdom and poetry album rhetoric. "The critic asked the question," How much nonsense is permissible for a happy ending? "And found that such a film "Even in the run-up to Christmas" was a "medium scandal"; His wish for the festival was therefore: "Give us back Courths painters !"
For the lexicon of international film , the film was a "leisurely (television) comedy about parental difficulties with letting go".
Web links
- Help, my daughter married in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Help, my daughter is getting married at askania-media.de ( Memento from August 30, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Help, my daughter is getting married (2004) at crew-united.com
- ↑ Help, my daughter is getting married . In: IMDb. Retrieved November 7, 2016 .
- ↑ Help, my daughter is getting married to DVD Bavaria Media
- ↑ Help, my daughter is getting married at bavaria-film-de. Retrieved November 14, 2016.
- ↑ Help, my daughter is getting married In: TV Spielfilm (with 18 pictures of the film), tvspielfilm.de. Retrieved November 14, 2016.
- ↑ Rainer Tittelbach : TV film 'Help, my daughter is getting married' Ulrich Pleitgen, Arzu Bazman, Christiane Sadlo: Give us Courths-Mahler again! at Tittelbach.TV, December 20, 2006. Accessed November 14, 2016.
- ↑ Help, my daughter is getting married. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
