Love wall
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Love wall |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2009 |
| length | 103 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Peter Timm |
| script | Peter Timm |
| production |
Heike Wiehle-Timm Thomas Springer Helmut G. Weber |
| music | Karim Sebastian Elias |
| camera | Achim Poulheim |
| cut | Barbara Hennings |
| occupation | |
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Liebe Mauer is a romantic tragic comedy by director and screenwriter Peter Timm . The film opened in German cinemas on November 19, 2009. Felicitas Woll and Maxim Mehmet play the leading roles.
action
In autumn 1989, 19-year-old Franziska “Franzi” Schubert moved into a cheap old building by the Wall to begin her studies in West Berlin . When she returned from East Berlin one day shopping for groceries and tore her carrier bag at the border crossing , of all places, the GDR border soldier Sascha Meier, who signed up for three years with the National People's Army because of a study place in medicine , rushed to meet her .
The two arrange further meetings in the eastern part of the city on a board and start a long-distance relationship across the wall - but not without consequences: Both the Stasi and the CIA threaten the two with imprisonment if they do not spy on each other and report from the east and west refund.
criticism
"More nostalgic-romantic than comedic is this" Wall "work, the setting at times reminiscent of Leander Haußmann's box-office success Sonnenallee ," said Kino.de of the film. “It is above all the supporting actors who can score points in the sometimes very melancholy-sentimental love story [...] TV series star Felicitas Woll in her third film role and Maxim Mehmet, who is currently the lovable loser in men's hearts, tend to stay pale and this role now varies. "
In the opinion of Andreas Staben from Filmstarts.de, the film offers "almost in time for the anniversary an occasionally oppressive and often comical look at the time of the turnaround, which despite some discrepancies pleasantly stands out from the monotony of cheering reports and stocktaking talk shows." He praised the presentation of the The cast and summed up: "The genre mix touched up by Peter Timm in Liebe Mauer doesn't always work out, but with its amusing little story it offers a successful alternative program to the great history celebrated everywhere on the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall."
Dimitrios Athanassiou proclaimed Liebe Mauer in his review for Moviemaze as a "film of the genre: the longer, the worse." Of course, "the film breathes the flair and zeitgeist of this historically significant moment [...] But over time, the story clearly goes." Blow out. Pure love play only has potential for a long telenovela episode. "
The lexicon of international films said: A comedy and love affair full of turbulent twists and turns and camouflage against the background of the politically escalating autumn events up to the fall of the Berlin Wall. Sometimes charming, sometimes striking, the film playfully tells a genre story with a few reflective moments that culminated in soulful accumulation on November 9, 1989.
Web links
- Liebe Mauer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- official website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dear Wall - Criticism . Kino.de . November 19, 2009. Retrieved June 27, 2011.
- ^ Andreas Staben: Dear Wall> Film Starts Critique . Filmstarts.de. November 19, 2009. Retrieved June 27, 2011.
- ↑ Dimitrios Athanassiou: Dear Wall, 2009: Criticism . Moviemaze.de. November 19, 2009. Retrieved June 27, 2011.
- ↑ Dear Wall. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .