Old love - new happiness
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Old love - new happiness |
| Original title | Councilor Geiger |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1996 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Peter Weck |
| script | Lida Winiewicz |
| production |
Peter Leidenfrost for ORF |
| music | Christian Kolonovits |
| camera | Jair Ganor |
| cut | Sonja gloss |
| occupation | |
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Alte Liebe - Neues Glück is an Austrian television film by Peter Weck from 1996 .
action
To the displeasure of the minister, the civil servant Martin Geiger is promoted to court advisor. Martin once refused the minister a grant for a villa, as he takes his work as a curator at the monument protection authority seriously. Countess Chiari has also been speaking to him in vain for a long time. Although she has applied for the renovation of her castle to be financed by the authorities, Martin refuses. The castle is in ruins and has no monument value. The countess returns disappointed to her place of residence in Spitz an der Donau and devotes herself to her hobby, dog painting. In the castle she is visited by Mariandl, who once again quarreled with her mother Marianne. On the one hand, Mariandl has no interest in viticulture, but is supposed to attend the viticulture school because her mother does not take her artistic attempts seriously and does not consent to a visit to the art college in Vienna. In addition, Mariandl grew up without a father and Marianne avoids any conversation about the identity of the father. After Mariandl harassed her again, Marianne invents a father. His name is Martin Käfer and he once lived in Berlin. However, he was killed in a car accident. In reality, Mariandl is the child of Martin Geiger, who had a four-week affair with Marianne around 22 years ago in the summer. At the time she wrote him a letter in which she told him about the pregnancy, but Martin never answered. Marianne has no idea that Martin did not receive the letter back then.
When Mariandl von Chiaris heard of unsuccessful visits to the monument authority, she went to Vienna herself and soon stood in front of Martin. He recognizes by her name that she must be Marianne's daughter. When she reveals her age, he realizes that his daughter is sitting in front of him. He immediately shows himself ready to re-examine Chiari's application to renovate the castle. He also encourages Mariandl to apply to the art college after she showed him a portfolio of pictures. Martin spontaneously drives to Spitz, where he meets Marianne. She asks him not to tell Mariandl anything about fatherhood. When Martin refuses, she accuses him of not being there for her all these years and of not responding to her letter in which she wrote to him about the pregnancy. She lists everything she went through alone with Mariandl and Martin, shocked, agrees not to mention his fatherhood. When Mariandl later meets him in Spitz, she is enthusiastic, believing he came to see Chiari's proposal. Countess Chiari believes that Martin changed his mind because he fell in love with Mariandl. She refuses to renovate the castle.
When Mariandl learns that Martin is going straight to Berlin for a conference, she asks him to be taken. She tells Martin that her father lived in Berlin. She wants to look for relatives and Martin agrees to Marianne's request with particular pleasure. In fact, Mariandl found a family in Berlin who could fit all of Marianne's invented statements. She thinks she has found her father and receives a picture of the real Martin Käfer. Back in Spitz, Marianne reacts harshly and tears up the picture, since she has never seen the man before. Mariandl gets angry because her mother lied to her. Marianne promises to tell her the truth over dinner in a restaurant. With the multi-course menu, Marianne manages to confess to Mariandl that her father is still alive, but she cannot bring herself to pronounce the name. Before the break between mother and daughter occurs, Martin suddenly appears. He had looked for the letter Marianne was supposed to have written to him in the things of his mother, who was now living in the old people's home. In fact, he found the envelope in a secret compartment on her desk. His mother confessed to having destroyed the letter at the time. He would have informed Martin of Marianne's pregnancy. Now Martin Marianne can explain why he did not react at the time. He asks her to forgive him, and Mariandl realizes that Martin is her father. Overjoyed, she falls on her parents' neck.
A little later the minister has reason to pout again. Not only does he have to congratulate Councilor Geiger on his 60th birthday in accordance with the regulations, but also on his wedding to Marianne.
production
Alte Liebe - Neues Glück was based on the play Der Hofrat Geiger by Martin Costa . Heike Stemmler created the costumes and Fritz Hollergschwandtner designed the equipment . Otto Tausig sings the Wachauer Hauerlied in the film and Peter Weck I carry it in my heart .
The film was shown in 1996 on ORF on Austrian television and was shown on German television for the first time on April 17, 2004 on Das Erste .
criticism
The film-dienst called Alte Liebe - Neues Glück a "staid (television) remake of the Viennese comedy Mariandl , which already looked dusty enough, but is surpassed here."
TV Movie said: "Listless, without whistle and esprit - a shame". For TV feature film , Alte Liebe - Neues Glück was a “Biedermeier re-edition of the 1947 kitsch Der Hofrat Geiger . Conclusion: Dramolet from the television assembly line. "
Web links
- Old Love - New You in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Old love - new happiness. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ See tvmovie.de ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ See tvspielfilm.de
