Katie Fforde: Leap into happiness
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| Original title | Katie Fforde: Leap into happiness | ||
| Country of production | Germany | ||
| original language | German | ||
| Publishing year | 2012 | ||
| length | 90 minutes | ||
| Age rating | FSK 0 | ||
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| Director | Helmut Metzger | ||
| script |
Kerstin Österlin , Claudia Kratochvil |
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| production | Network Movie | ||
| music | Hansjörg Kohli | ||
| camera | Mike Hoffmann | ||
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Jump into happiness is a German TV film by Helmut Metzger from 2012. In addition to Sabrina White , Uschi Glas and Heiko Ruprecht , Oliver Bootz and Mariah K. Friedrich play the leading roles. It is the eighth film in a ZDF film series with works by British bestselling author Katie Fforde .
The film is part of the ZDF Sunday Film Herzkino series , which also includes films by Rosamunde Pilcher , Inga Lindström , Nora Roberts , Lilly Schönauer and Utta Danella . These productions are characterized by the fact that they are always shot in particularly beautiful landscapes.
action
When a virus spreads at his Winley stud farm in the Hudson Valley , George Foster seeks out his daughter Kay for help. Kay is a veterinarian and George is convinced that she is the only one who can still help him in his situation. He had only recently rebuilt and expanded his stud and the fact that nobody wants to leave his horses on his stud brings him into great financial difficulties.
Kay has not set foot on the local stud since her boyfriend at the time, Eric West, started a relationship with her stepsister Alison when she was studying in America, and she married when she was a child. Kay hesitates, but then complies with the father's request. The young woman is not welcomed in a friendly manner by her stepmother Esther. Esther, whose relationship with her stepdaughter has always been difficult, fears that Kay could jeopardize her daughter Alison's marriage.
When George Foster is on his way to a bank appointment in his car, he has a heart attack and dies. At the opening of the will, Esther alleges that Kay was to blame for her father's death because she had broken his heart by leaving. A third of the inheritance goes to Esther, Kay and Alison. Kay takes the reproach of her stepmother, with whom she has never got along well, to heart and, at Alison's request, decides to stay for the time being in order to get the viral disease of the horses under control and together with Eric to ensure that the stud is healthy again.
Kay's former horse Racer, who was immediately isolated, is said to have won a high premium with Eric at a major eventing tournament that will take place soon, which would help the financially troubled stud a lot. For this reason, the former show jumper Jake Garber has been hired as a trainer by George Foster. At first, there were always disputes between him and Kay. When Eric has a car accident, Kay has to step in as a rider. Shortly before the tournament, however, Racer fell ill. When Kay finds out that the animal has been injected with a forbidden substance and finds a bottle of the agent on Jake Garber's belongings, she doesn't really want to believe that he had a hand in it. Especially since they both got closer the night before. When she confronts the proud man with her suspicions, he says disappointedly that he was sure that she knew him better by now.
Shortly thereafter, Kay and her stepmother Esther have a clarifying discussion, who admits that she is in negotiations with Rupert Stone, who has long been interested in the stud, about her and Alison's shares, but without having informed Alison. But it has nothing to do with the sabotage against Racer. She then apologizes for her past behavior and for the unjust allegations she made to Kay.
It turns out that Stone paid Henry Butcher, a Fosters groom, to prevent Racers from starting the tournament. Kay can then still start and wins with Racer. Esther has decided to move her main residence to New York, also to let her daughter Alison live more self-determinedly with her husband and child in the future. Kay and Jake become a couple.
reception
Publication, audience rating
The film Katie Fforde: Leap into happiness had its premiere on March 18, 2012 on ZDF , with a very good audience rating of 6.18 million viewers (market share 16.6%).
Jump into happiness was released together with two other films by Katie Fforde on January 2nd, 2015 by Universum Film GmbH in the Katie Fforde Collection 3 box .
criticism
"Trivial (television) melodrama that strives for a high degree of drama, only to mix the usual ingredients."
Rainer Tittelbach's criticism was not without a certain sarcasm. He spoke of the fact that the film is moving "between fairy tale typology and classic melodrama constellation". “Passion [is] domesticated by a seemingly American pragmatism. The very classic (authorial) staging doesn’t seem lively, but it goes with the slightly inhibited characters. Even Uschi Glas hardly disturbs. "
TV Spielfilm spoke of a "TV Schmonzette" that was "lightly and loosely knitted according to the scheme F". There was one of three possible points for humor and tension, the thumb was pointing to the right.
Web links
- Katie Fforde: Jump into happiness in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Katie Fforde: Leap into happiness at zdf-enterprises.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Katie Fforde individual films at fernsehserien.de
- ^ A b Rainer Tittelbach: Series “Katie Fforde - Leap into Happiness” Sabrina White, Uschi Glas, Heiko Ruprecht, Oliver Bootz. About women and horses tittelbach.tv
- ↑ Katie Fforde Fig. Cover Collection 3
- ↑ Katie Fforde: Leap Into Happiness. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Katie Fforde: Leap into happiness tvspielfilm.de. Retrieved July 8, 2015.
