Island of light
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Island of light |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2008 |
| length | 88 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Wolf Gremm |
| script | Wolf Gremm |
| production | Regina Ziegler film production |
| music | Tamás Kahane |
| camera | Claus Peter Hildenbrand |
| cut | Karola Mittelstädt |
| occupation | |
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Insel des Lichts is a German television melodrama by Wolf Gremm from 2008. It is based on the novel of the same name by Kristin Hannah .
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Nora Bernd has been the presenter of her successful TV show Nora Bernd live for ten years , in which she supports people psychologically and gives them advice in difficult life situations. Her husband and daughter are also in the television studio on the occasion of her anniversary broadcast. Nora advises a young couple in whom the woman cheats - and Nora's daughter Jenny leaves the studio in disgust when Nora gives the couple relationship tips.
Because of the anniversary, Nora receives an invitation to the talk show of the respected presenter Mankopf, which she accepts. The announced surprise guest is her daughter Jenny. She reports on camera that the family has been broken since Nora had an affair with another man, and that the family has had to lie in public for years in order not to endanger Nora's career. Nora escapes from the studio. Her employer advises her to take a long vacation and drops the show. Nora goes to the island of Rügen , where she grew up and owns a house. She also knows that Aunt Lottie and her sick nephew Erich, whom she trusts, live there.
While driving, she thinks of her family and is so upset that she crashes into a tree. She is injured and taken to the hospital, where Dr. Leonhard is looked after.
Jenny's hatred of her mother has meanwhile not subsided. She receives an offer from a sensational reporter to write a three-part revelatory story about her mother and accepts. When she sees her mother being taken to the hospital on TV, she drives to Rügen and visits her there. At her request, Jenny smuggles her mother out of the hospital and they both move into the house by the sea where Nora grew up and where Jenny also spent her childhood.
The distance between mother and daughter is initially great. Aunt Lottie picks up Nora and spends a day with the seriously ill Erich. He is about to die of a brain tumor and takes it easy because his partner died of AIDS before he did. Erich's brother Jan has also come to Rügen in the meantime to be with Erich for the last few days. Jan and Jenny were once a couple before Jenny left him. Erich and Nora decide to pair them up again. In fact, Jenny and Jan get closer again and the relationship between Nora and Jenny changes too: Jenny learns from her father that he once cheated on Nora several times and also beat her. She then left the family and 13-year-old Jenny grew up with her father, who turned her against her own mother.
Nora knows that someone close to her is writing a revelatory story about her. At some point Jenny gives her her lines written in hate, but Nora now insists that the story be printed. She now knows that Nora Bernd was just a character she created. She calls the investigative journalist and promises her an exclusive interview. She also indicates that she has a new man by her side: Dr. Leonhard.
Jenny and Jan are also a couple. Shortly before Erich dies, he wishes that they both father a child. In fact, Jenny announces to her mother on the occasion of her marriage to Jan that she is pregnant. Nora appears for the first time at the wedding ceremony at the side of Dr. Leonhard in front of the press, which has long been welcoming them again with open arms. However, she does not know whether she is ready to be a grandma.
production
Insel des Lichts was filmed from June 14th to July 13th 2007 in Berlin, Hamburg and on Rügen. The film had its television premiere on June 5, 2008 on Erste and ORF2 .
criticism
For the film service , Insel des Lichts was a "melodramatic mother-daughter conflict in the usual (television) format."
TV Spielfilm wrote: “Exaggeratedly pathetic subplots and a lack of bite. Conclusion: TV light food with hearty blunders. "
Web links
- Island of light in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ See film data on crew-united.com
- ↑ Isle of Light. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ See tvspielfilm.de