Children! Love! Hope!
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Children! Love! Hope! |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2013 |
| length | 89 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Sigrid Faltin |
| script | Sigrid Faltin |
| production | Südwestrundfunk |
| music | Marion Grünberg-Schröter, Nils Kacirek |
| camera | Ingo Behring, Mark Klotz |
| cut | Isabelle Allgeier |
Children! Love! Hope! is a documentary by Sigrid Faltin from 2013 . It focuses on life in a blended family .
action
Marion and Kai met on the Internet. Marion brings one child and Kai four children into the relationship. A blended family initially emerges as a long-distance relationship. The film starts at the cherry blossom when the patches live together and everyday life really begins. The relationship lasts for about a year.
The different typical problems in coping with everyday life in five children with different demands and characteristics are shown, whereby it quickly becomes clear that the ex-partners find their way around the situation very differently. Lars' father integrates into the new relationship and becomes a kind of family friend. The mother of Kai's children cannot cope with the situation. There are communication problems and irreconcilable differences.
In the middle of the filming, Kai found out about his cancer and the family decided to continue anyway. Now this thick new board takes up a lot of space, but without displacing the everyday worries of the blended family and their typical solution strategies.
It is shown how these different levels of problems and challenges lead to solutions, compromises or conflicts. The representation takes place via a compression and interweaving of the levels of action, so that complex relationships are represented in 90 minutes, with image and sound showing different levels. Ultimately, the viewer learns as much from all the protagonists involved as they are willing to reveal.
The film gets out of the cherry blossom a year later. And towards the end it shows astonishing things, because in the overall picture, in which the patchwork problems, some of which are already very polar, are enriched by some intense details, the family goes their way, which love shows them. There is no other way for the inclined viewer to explain how this family shoulders such an abundance of challenges.
criticism
“Lately, there has often been talk of the documentaries in Das Erste - when and how often they are broadcast and why. You can usually only guess how much work is behind each piece. For children! Love! Hope!' Sigrid Faltin accompanied a blended family for a year - open-ended, as the saying goes. Because reality turned out to be more dramatic than the author's original concept. "
“The filmmaker Sigrid Faltin wants to accompany a family with the camera for a year. A sudden stroke of fate, as cynical as it sounds, is what makes the film really remarkable. "
Awards
- Nomination for the German Television Award 2013 in the category Best Documentation
- Second prize of the Caritas Journalist Prize Baden-Württemberg 2014
Web links
- Children! Love! Hope! in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Marcel Kawentel: Already seen: “Children! Love! Hope! ” Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung GmbH & Co. KG, June 18, 2013, accessed on February 2, 2014 .
- ↑ Tilmann P. Gangloff: “Love! Children! Hope! ” Frankfurter Rundschau GmbH, June 19, 2013, accessed on February 2, 2014 .
- ↑ German Television Award: SWR nominated for two productions and five co-productions. Südwestrundfunk, September 18, 2013, accessed on February 2, 2014 .
- ^ Caritas journalist award for Sigrid Faltin. Badischer Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, January 18, 2014, accessed on February 2, 2014 .