I don't want a child from you

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Movie
Original title I don't want a child from you
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2017
length 84 minutes
Rod
Director Ingo Rasper
script Katrin Bühring
production Katrin Goetter
music Martin Probst
camera Sönke Hansen
cut Nicola Undritz
occupation

I want (not) a child from you is a German TV film by Ingo Rasper from 2017 , which was produced on behalf of and for Das Erste . The leading roles of the Eichhorn couple are cast with Franziska Weisz and Felix Klare . Maren Kroymann , Michael Wittenborn , Christina Hecke and Kai Lentrodt play leading roles .

When the orthopedic surgeon Philipp Eichhorn suddenly feels the desire to have a child, contrary to an old agreement, conflicts arise with his wife Anna, who is on the way to a professorship and does not want a child.

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The orthopedic surgeon Philipp Eichhorn recently took over his father's thriving medical practice and lives with his wife Anna in Berlin-Kreuzberg . The couple regularly goes to the playground with their little niece, Nele. In Philipp, the desire to have a child of his own is growing. His parents brought little Umar into their life as a substitute granddaughter through the "Wunsch-Oma" agency, which left a bitter aftertaste for Philipp.

But Anna, who is about to complete her doctoral thesis and is hoping for a professorship at the Institute for English Studies in Leipzig, sees a child as the end of her career. At the beginning of their relationship, she agreed with Philipp to have a childless relationship. She insists on it now.

By chance, Philipp meets his ex-wife Katharina, who now has a five-year-old daughter. For a moment he hopes that he may be the girl's father. However, since the separation from Katharina was more than six years ago, this thought is shattered again. The topic continues to occupy him, so that he takes it up again in the evening in conversation with Anna. When Anna then confesses to him that, should the commission decide in her favor, she would have to go to Leipzig, this shattered any further hope of Philip. At her university, Anna is repeatedly confronted with the problems that female students who are already mothers have and how much they have to struggle to get their studies and family under one roof. She is also marked by the fact that she had to look after her younger sister after the early death of her mother. This also encourages her not to have a child, even if Philipp wishes from the bottom of his heart to be a father. Of course, the couple's conflict does not remain hidden in either circle of friends and everyone has good advice. The pros and cons are balanced. The fact that this is increasingly the dominant topic of conversation between them doesn't make their coexistence any easier. Philipp even toyed with the idea of ​​giving up smoking, because various cigarette packets warned that smoking would make you impotent and could also damage the spermatozoa . While he ponders how he could change Anna's mind, she shocks him with the suggestion that he should have a vasectomy performed . That way, the children's topic would be off the table once and for all. This is the beginning of a violent marital dispute. Mutual accusations, in which it is said that the partner puts his own needs above those of the other, divide Philipp and Anna more and more. So it happens that one evening Philipp makes an appointment with Katharina and Katharina, who is on the road with her friend Vanessa, lets herself into the flirtation attempts of a complete stranger.

The next day, Philipp tried to make Anna conciliatory with a bouquet of flowers, but ended up sleeping on the sofa because Anna didn't forgive him for trying to trick her and poking holes in a condom. For Anna, however, a world collapses when she discovers that she is pregnant. She wants to terminate the pregnancy without telling Philipp about it. Vanessa thinks this is wrong and informs him. Philipp does not succeed in transferring the joy he feels to Anna, who stubbornly sticks to the fact that she does not want a child. The consequence of this is that the couple first lives separately.

Since Philipp has to come to terms with the fact that Anna wants to have an abortion, he asks her to be allowed to drive her to the doctor so that he can at least inwardly say goodbye to his child. He assures her that if for any reason she does decide to have the child, he will be completely there for her and the child. Philipp had already clarified with his father beforehand that in such a case he would take over the practice again for two years. Anna gets out of the car, saying that she is sorry and disappears into the house. When she comes back after a while, she smiles in a way that Philipp knows that she has chosen the child. They both embrace. Many months later, Philipp is with his son on the playground when Anna says that the train from Leipzig was running late and that she just wanted to be with them.

production

Filming, background

I want (not) a child of yours was filmed from April 8th to May 10th 2016 in the state capital Berlin . The film was produced by Real-Film Berlin . The ex-wife Philipps played by Zora Thiessen is the actor's wife in real life.

When asked whether she could empathize with the motives of the character she was playing, Franziska Weisz replied that she could well understand Anna's fear of having to start from scratch after a baby break. It is the women who have the children, not the men. Nevertheless, in our society, in our present, the question should not apply: children or career? Therefore, everything that gives women security and makes it easier to return to work is essential. Anna's early experiences played a big role in her fear of motherhood. Because even as half a child, she had to take full responsibility for her little sister after her mother's death. The fear of having to give up their own personality as they did then runs deep. When asked whether there was a moment during the filming that stuck in her memory, Weisz said that the entire time of filming would remain in her memory for a very long time. Not only with her great colleagues - above all Felix Klare - the work was a celebration, the whole team made it possible that a day of shooting was funnier in the best sense of the word, more intense than the previous one. It was not about working through the quota, but about finding a treasure in every situation. This spontaneity and ease was decisive on the set.

Felix Klare answered the question how he would characterize the Philipp he played, that he grew up as a sheltered only child in the upper middle class and never really had to fight for anything, but got everything he wanted, but also in return dutifully took over his father's practice. Philip's sudden change of heart with regard to children has to do with the fact that he begins to question life and himself. Suddenly he looks behind the facade at himself and others. These are some of the reasons why he wanted to have children. Regarding the involvement of his wife Zora Thiessen as his ex-wife, Klare said that the familiarity they had with each other helped immensely. It was great to play with his wife. The idea for this came from the director, with whom the work was incredibly lively and a lot of fun. When asked how he and his wife would reconcile four children and a career, Klare said that the children had a large age difference, so it was almost impossible to meet every child's different needs. Even so, of course, as a couple, they tried their best. There is no right or wrong decision when it comes to many children, few children, no children. You also need the right partner for each other. And of course, it's definitely harder as a woman.

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publication

On March 17, 2017, the film was premiered in the first on Endlich Freitag in the first slot at prime time .

reception

Audience rating

When it was first broadcast, 3.37 million viewers tuned into the film, which corresponded to a market share of 10.6 percent.

criticism

Tilmann P. Gangloff gave the film 4½ out of 6 possible stars on the Tittelbach.tv website and rated it: “The film impresses above all with its closeness to reality. Not a single figure seems thought-out, the dialogues sound natural, the situations Bühring brings the couple into are copied from life; and the actors are without exception excellent. ”[…]“ Although the film is almost exclusively about the title topic, Bühring cleverly avoided the story turning in circles over and over again. This is ensured not least by the other contributors, because the script surrounds the two main characters with staff whose existence provides them with further food for thought. "

At the Stuttgarter Nachrichten , Ulla Hanselmann praised: “So the topic of having children. Well hung over, it has already been dealt with umpteen times how men and women struggle with starting a family and thus with the contemporary contradiction of career, self-realization and family spirit. But what do the director Ingo Rasper and the screenwriter Katrin Bühring make of it? They avoid all the traps, clichés and expectations and deliver ninety minutes of top-quality television that is as entertaining as it is differentiated. [...] Everything done right - even the soundtrack fits like a glove. When can that be said about a TV movie? "

Ulrich Feld from the Frankfurter Neue Presse said: “The film deals with the topic of having children in a vivid way, but nevertheless easily and loosely in the form of a beautifully played married comedy in which contemplative moments also have their place. The scene in the bathroom, however, seems strange and raises questions rather than fits into the further course of action. "

Tilmann P. Gangloff rated the film for Evangelisch.de and was of the opinion: “The story disguises itself as a comedy, but drops the mask in the second half at the latest and turns into a drama. [...] Director Rasper [...], whose work is always comedies with a serious core, stands for the claim of the film. "

The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm pointed with the thumbs up, assigned one of three possible points for humor, ambition, tension and eroticism and drew the conclusion: "Couples problem film with charm and good tone". It was further stated: "Fresh, with lifelike dialogues and so much engaging sincerity that we like to overlook the jokes, the brave resolution and the naivete of Philipp".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ I don't want a child from you, TV film, 2016, ARD, Degeto, Germany | Crew United
  2. ↑ For questions to Franziska Weisz see page daserste.de
  3. ↑ For questions to Felix Klare see page daserste.de
  4. ↑ I (no) want a child of yours Fig. The first film poster on the crew-united.com page
  5. ↑ a b Tilmann P. Gangloff : TV film "I want (not) a child from you". Franziska Weisz, Felix Klare, Katrin Bühring, Rasper. Serious but not hopeless at Tittelbach.tv . Retrieved August 20, 2020.
  6. ↑ Ulla Hanselmann: mother, father, child, family? In: Stuttgarter Nachrichten . March 16, 2017. Retrieved August 20, 2020.
  7. ↑ Ulrich Feld: Criticism "I want (not) a child from you": With a strange twist In: Frankfurter Neue Presse . March 18, 2017. Retrieved August 20, 2020.
  8. ↑ Tilmann P. Gangloff : TV tip: "I want (not) a child from you" at evangelisch.de , accessed on August 20, 2020.
  9. ↑ I want (not) a child of yours. Short review on tvspielfilm.de (including 13 film images). Retrieved August 20, 2020.