Every day counts

Movie
Original title	Every day counts
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	2012
length	89 minutes
Rod
Director	Gabriela Zerhau
script	Ruth Toma
production	Caroline Von Senden Katharina Dufner Stefan Schubert Ralph Schwingel
music	Fabian Römer
camera	Holly Fink
cut	Anke Berthold
occupation
Lilian Prent : Lilli Sand Katharina Böhm : Emma Sand Bernhard Schir : Gerd Sand Hanna Plaß : Mausi Max Schmidt : Karl Lehner Bettina Mittendorfer : Waldi Hanfstängl-Sand Lenny Den Dooven : Alex Hanfstängel Elias Den Dooven : Josche Saskia Vester : Paula Marc Benjamin : Tom Stephan Bieker : Barney Rubble Anja Schiffel : Little Red Riding Hood Samy Abdel Fattah : Ali Catalina Navarro Kirner : Sister Catalina Judith Toth : Sister Judith July Reithinger : Gerti Zoë Mannhardt : Tini Franziska Scheuber : Mili Carlo Knöpfel : Michi Katja Amberger : Mother Gerti Thomas Wenke : Father Gerti Martyna Eder : Sophia's mother Otana Mirza : Ali's father

Every day counts is a German film drama by Gabriela Zerhau from 2012.

action

14-year-old Lilli begins to eat less and less. Her mother Emma suspects Lilli is anorexic ; however, it turns out that she has acute myeloid leukemia . She comes for treatment in a specialty children's oncology department in Munich . Since she is still relatively well at the beginning, she has to go to the clinic every day, but is otherwise allowed to live with her father Gerd and his new wife Waldi .

There she receives injections from her sister Mausi , a medical student, and is visited by friends of the same age and her mother's friend Paula . The relationship between Emma and Waldi is strained because Emma was abandoned by her husband because of Waldi. It improves later. In the clinic, Lilli has to go through chemotherapy and loses her hair as a result. A boy from the clinic, Ali , falls in love with Lilli, who, however, raves about the FSJler Tom . Ali and Lilli become friends and watch each other suffer from the effects of a bone marrow transplant (frequent vomiting ). When Lilli learns of Ali's death, she is very upset. Since there is no success with the transplant for a long time, Emma's doubts about God's goodness grow stronger. The other parties involved are also affected by the situation.

The first successes can be seen more than two weeks after the transplant. Lilli is getting better and better and is allowed to go back home.

True background

The film is based on the novel Am Seidenen Faden by Jutta Mehler from 2007. The novel describes the true story of the illness surrounding Mehler's daughter. Mehler's sister Ruth Toma wrote the screenplay for the film based on this. The daughter herself is quoted in the tz that the film "[...] is very close to my mother's book, and that is very close to what happened back then." She is now studying medicine herself, since she herself set out to become like the doctors myself.

publication

The film premiered on September 29, 2012 at the Hamburg Film Festival . It ran on television on March 17, 2014 on ZDF . An audience rate of 14.3% and an audience of 4.75 million were determined.

Web links

• Every day counts in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Description at TV Movie
• The story of the film
• Interview with Katharina Böhm

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Every day counts. ZDF , accessed on March 17, 2014 . 
2. ↑ http://d-nb.info/984437029
3. ↑ This is the fate behind "Every day counts". tz , March 16, 2014, accessed on March 17, 2014 . 
4. ↑ Primetime check from quotenmeter.de