A hundred times spring
| Episode of the Spring Series | |||
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| title | A hundred times spring | ||
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| Country of production | Germany | ||
| original language | German | ||
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UFA fiction | ||
| length | 90 minutes | ||
| Age rating | FSK 0 | ||
| classification | Episode 11 ( list ) | ||
| First broadcast | February 28, 2016 | ||
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| Director | Lutz Konermann | ||
| script | Natalie Sharp | ||
| production | Natalie Sharp | ||
| music | Therese Strasser | ||
| camera | Stefan Biebl | ||
| cut | Behruz Torbati | ||
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Hundertmal Frühling is a German television film from the spring television series by Lutz Konermann . It was first broadcast on ZDF on February 28, 2016 .
The film tells the story of the village helper Katja Baumann, played by Simone Thomalla , who supports families in emergency situations and at the same time tries to bring spring into people's hearts. It is the eleventh film in a series that focuses on the people of the village called Spring .
action
Erna Krawinkel is about to turn 100. In the senior citizens' home on Schliersee , where she has lived for a number of years, one is correspondingly excited. She doesn't like all the fuss herself and has been very withdrawn lately. Except for one resident with dementia, nobody notices when she leaves the building one day via the fire escape and sneaks away quietly.
Village helper Katja Baumann is driving her private car when she sees the sprightly old lady on the country road. Katja had heard a missing person report on the radio and is sure that this is the Erna Krawinkel she was looking for. She tries to speak to her, but the pensioner does not react, instead marching purposefully away from the road over a dirt road into the area. Katja follows her, but cannot persuade the old woman to turn back. She tries to talk to her and learns that she really wants to go up to the mountains. When you arrive at an alpine meadow, the hike ends at a very old and almost dilapidated wooden house. Erna Krawinkel explains to Katja that this was an inn and that she spent her childhood and youth here. She only speaks of this time and initially does not react to Katja's demands to go back home, where there would be worries about her. Only when Katja threatens to leave her alone to get help does the old lady give in. Nobody should “find out about this place up here” and she would come back with me if only Katja didn't tell anyone about this place. Katja promises her this and so they start the descent. By the time she arrives at the nursing home, it is already dark and Cem has also waited in vain for Katja's return the whole day. She had left her cell phone in the car and could not be reached by anyone. Cem is accordingly upset and drives back to Berlin. Daughter Kiki was also worried and is not on good terms with her mother at the moment.
The next morning the nurse at the nursing home visits Katja and tells her that Mrs. Krawinkel has already run away again. So Katja spontaneously follows the old lady and climbs the mountain, where Erna seems to be waiting for her. This time the pensioner has prepared to sleep here too and Katja knows that she will not leave her alone. This means there is a lot of time for mutual conversations, with Erna mostly talking about her past and talking about having to do something before she would forget everything. After Erna built a small pile of stones under a tree so as not to forget this place, Katja learned from her that her great love was buried here. Erna insists that Katja should also tell her about her past, and so the village helper speaks for the first time about the fact that her mother was an alcoholic and her father had left the family. She then grew up with a stepfather, but always missed her father. Perhaps this is why she has trouble trusting men.
Over time, Erna tells her whole life story and so Katja learns that Erna fell in love with the French slave laborer René Bertrand when she was 18. He worked as a cook in their inn and they spent a lot of time together. One day, on October 2, 1943, her father was very angry and he shot René in an argument. She was pregnant and when the child was born, her father had simply taken it away and put it in front of the church door in the spring . She only knew that it was a little girl and supposedly had never thought about what might have become of her. Her future husband would never have married her if he had known. But now she has achieved what she wanted up here on the mountain, because for as long as she can remember she wanted to mark the grave of her first great loved ones so that after her death René's bones can be transferred to France. That was her concern and her great secret. Satisfied, Katja brings Erna back to the retirement home, where she promises not to run away anymore.
Katja does not let the fate of Erna's daughter rest and tries to find out something about a foundling from 1944 through Pastor Sonnleitner. That succeeds and therefore Erna's daughter grew up as Rosa Meierhuber and also has a daughter. She works as a French teacher at a high school. Katja visits her and tells her about her grandparents. So the teacher finally sees why she and her mother always had such an affinity for France. Her mother is now very demented and has been in the senior citizens' home on Schliersee for some time . Katja can hardly believe it. Without further ado, she introduced Erna to her granddaughter and made her aware of Rosa, with whom she lived in the old people's home for almost eight years without even knowing it. Only now does she really look at Rosa and realize that she has her father's eyes. Erna is sure that she was only allowed to live so long to fix all of this. Erna Krawinkel dies one day before her 100th birthday.
Emotionally moved by Erna's life story, Katja reads her old diaries of her childhood and decides to look for her father. Katja also researches René Bertrand and can actually locate relatives.
background
The episode was produced by ZDF in collaboration with “Seven Dogs Filmproduktion” and UFA Fiction and broadcast as part of the ZDF “Herzkino” series. The beginning of the story of this film is slightly based on the novel The Hundred Year Old Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared .
reception
Audience ratings
When it was first broadcast on February 28, 2016, Hundertmal Frühling was seen by 5.29 million viewers in Germany, which corresponded to a market share of 13.9 percent.
criticism
Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv thinks that this time we experience “a very emotional main story, which primarily reflects an inner conflict and which convinces with its sensitive nuances. The reference to National Socialism and the subject of forced labor enriches the story of fate sustainably, lifts it a little out of the context of the love-only film and gives the drama with short flashbacks a little added value in terms of film aesthetics. "
The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm, however, see it differently and give this episode the "thumbs straight". They judge: “The patho-drunk core story suffocates from too many pre-cut dialogues. The established mimes are completely given away between picturesque scenes, 'Landlust' flower arrangements and greasy violin feathers. Only the subplots are looser. "Conclusion:" Oh dear: only quark pounded a hundred times. "
Web links
- Hundred spring in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- A hundred times spring at Fernsehserien.de
- A hundred times spring with crew united
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Rainer Tittelbach: Hundertmal Frühling film review at tittelbach.tv, accessed on December 12, 2016.
- ↑ TV stirring piece with Sophia Thomalla. A centenarian gets out of the window and ... Short review at tvspielfilm.de, accessed on December 12, 2016.