Ku'damm 59
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| Original title | Ku'damm 59 |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2018 |
| length | 3 films each 90 minutes |
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| Director | Sven Bohse |
| script | Annette Hess |
| production |
Benjamin Benedict , Nico Hofmann |
| music |
Maurus Ronner , also in episode 3: Christian Biegai , Anna Kühlein |
| camera | Michael Schreitel |
| cut | Ronny Mattas |
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Ku'damm 59 is a three-part German television film about the awakening of young people at the end of the 1950s in the Federal Republic of Germany. The three-part film was first broadcast on March 18, 19 and 21, 2018 on Second German Television as a sequel to Ku'damm 56 . Another three-part continuation is planned under the title Ku'damm 63 .
action
Ku'damm 59 continues the story of Caterina Schöllack and her daughters Monika, Helga and Eva.
Part 1: Nicki and Freddy make music
It all began in Berlin in 1957 : Monika reached the Schöllack dance school, heavily pregnant. She hopes for the support of her mother, Caterina Schöllack, but she refuses. At the doorstep, labor begins and Monika comes to the hospital. After she only came to after days from the delirium of childbed fever , she had to find out that her mother had "taken care of everything". Her daughter Dorli was placed with foster parents: with her sister Helga and her husband Wolfgang. Two years later: Dorli enables Helga and Wolfgang to conceal Wolfgang's homosexuality and maintain the appearance of a family. The birth mother Monika is allowed to visit the daughter regularly, but Monika's sister demands that she appear as "aunt" to Dorli. Since she doesn't want to lose Dorli, Monika tries to apply for the return of custody in court. However, because Dorli's father, Freddy, appears late and drunk and leaves a bad impression, her application is rejected. Monika has to watch how Dorli becomes more and more estranged from her. Monika's mother, on the other hand, comes in handy because she successfully markets Freddy and Monika as the duo "Nicki and Freddy" and her dance school benefits from their success. Caterina falls in love with the director Kurt Moser, who is making a homeland film with Monika and Freddy. Eva Fassbender, the youngest daughter of Caterina Schöllack, is very unhappy in her marriage to Professor Jürgen Fassbender, as he is extremely jealous and exercises his power wherever he can. The son of a factory owner and former dance school learner Joachim Franck has meanwhile returned from abroad. He is supposed to take over the family business because his father is demented. Ninette, the secretary, takes care of his father and him. Shortly afterwards she informed Joachim that she was expecting a child from him. At this point, of all times, Monika Joachim makes a marriage proposal.
Part 2: the scandal
Joachim cannot accept Monika's proposal, despite their strong feelings for each other, because he feels obliged to the pregnant Ninette. Monika throws herself into her job as a singer and actress. When she realizes how much she is lying to herself, she ends her film career before it has really started. She confesses to her illegitimate child and outed her film partner Freddy as a former Jewish concentration camp inmate. Freddy feels responsible for the murder of his brother and has so far been able to suppress his traumatic past in the concentration camp. In a trial he is supposed to testify against those responsible, whereby his feelings emerge again. Fassbender's pressure on Eva becomes more and more sadistic, whereupon Eva flees her marriage and rents her own apartment. In this situation, she enjoys the fascination and power that she can exert on men by using her body to do so. Helga has since found out from Wolfgang that he has fallen in love with a man. Desperate, she and Dorli move back to the dance school with her mother Caterina. This is completely dissolved after she learned in the newspaper about another woman's paternity lawsuit against Kurt Moser.
Part 3: In the jungle
Fassbender finds out Eva's whereabouts and is furious when Eva refuses to go home with him. A short time later she is found unconscious in her apartment with a severe head injury and is taken to the hospital. After waking from a coma that lasted for weeks , Eva first moves in with her mother. She only remembers the night of the crime in fragments: she only knows that she and Joachim Franck left the pub. That evening Joachim had found out that he could not be the father of Ninette's child and decided to have his marriage annulled. He met Eva in a bar and went to her house. Joachim is suspected of attempted manslaughter of Eva and is sent to prison. Monika causes Ninette to confirm Joachim's alibi so that he is released. Wolfgang has found his great love in his colleague Hans Liebknecht, a lawyer from East Berlin , and is looking for a way of not having to give up either him or his marriage. Helga, who has just given birth to Wolfgang, does not want to accept this and continues to maintain the facade of the intact family. She denounced Hans to the GDR Interior Ministry. Eva returns to Fassbender and blackmails him with a tape recording of the night of the crime, which Jürgen exposes as the perpetrator. In return, it should enable her to live an independent and financially worry-free life. Monika has now found a new passion: the blues . She works with Freddy's band on common songs for the stage. After Joachim, who has given up his company inheritance, is separated from Ninette, he and Monika can finally get married.
Production sites
The three-part series was shot from June 26th to September 29th 2017 in Berlin and the surrounding area. Part of Richard-Wagner-Strasse in Berlin-Charlottenburg was prepared for the replica of the street in the 1950s with the fictional Galant dance school and the adjacent shops . Until the beginning of August 2017, the film was shot in the CCC studios in Berlin-Haselhorst . The external shoot then took place until September 29, 2017. The broadcast dates were announced on January 30, 2018. The premiere took place on March 7, 2018 at Cinema Paris in Berlin.
reception
Reviews
“Director Sven Bohse (also staged the emotional thunderstorm in Kiel Tatort ) and author Annette Hess (creator of Weissensee ) have already created the first Ku'damm season . In terms of compression and elevation, they add a few scoops here. Sometimes they wrestle the mentally handicapped in their candy-colored fifties jail from so many struggles for self-empowerment that they get bogged down in them. "
“ Ku'damm 59 is about the fact that life may have to be completely different. That as a daughter, in the view of the mother kite, you have to plunge into misery in order to be possibly happy. But the multi-part series, which made its appeal in the first season, is designed as a great narrative about the emancipation of the young generation in the German post-war period , as a process of self-discovery despite bad role expectations for women, sadistic etiquette and the whole past nobody speaks. All of this becomes a little more serious and existential in the second part. "
Audience ratings
The film achieved good ratings for ZDF on all three broadcast days . The second and third parts were the most watched prime-time TV event . The market share increased one by one and reached almost 18% in the third part.
| date | Spectators (total) |
Market share | Spectators ( 14 to 49 year olds ) |
Market share (14 to 49 year olds) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 Mar 2018 | 5.36 million | 14.3% | - | 7.7% |
| 19 Mar 2018 | 5.42 million | 16.2% | 0.88 million | 8.1% |
| 21 Mar 2018 | 5.60 million | 17.8% | 0.90 million | 8.8% |
Web links
- Ku'damm 59 in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Ku'damm 59. In: Films. ZDF , accessed on March 12, 2018 : "All three parts in the media library from March 18!"
Individual evidence
- ↑ Press release ZDF: Ku'damm 63
- ^ Ku'damm 59 at crew united
- ↑ A brilliant premiere of “Ku'damm 59” at the Cinema Paris. The popular ZDF multi-part is going into a second round. In: Berliner Morgenpost . March 7, 2018, accessed March 17, 2018 .
- ^ Christian Buß: Second "Ku'damm" season on ZDF. Rock'n'Roll as a weapon. In: Culture. Spiegel online , March 15, 2018, accessed on March 17, 2018 : "8 out of 10 points"
- ↑ Claudia Tieschky: "Ku'damm 59" on ZDF. Lives of life under the lipstick. Süddeutsche Zeitung, March 16, 2018, accessed on March 17, 2018 : "And when are you singing now?"
- ↑ Manuel Weis: Primetime check: Sunday, March 18, 2018.quotemeter.de , March 19, 2018, accessed on March 19, 2018 .
- ^ Fabian Riedner: Primetime check: Monday, March 19, 2018.quotemeter.de , March 20, 2018, accessed on March 20, 2018 .
- ↑ Sidney Schering: Primetime-Check: Wednesday, March 21, 2018.quotemeter.de , March 22, 2018, accessed on March 22, 2018 .