Love at the fjord - farewell to Hannah

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Episode in the series Love by the Fjord
Original title Farewell to Hannah
Country of production Germany
original language German
length 90 minutes
classification Episode 5 ( list )
First broadcast October 19, 2012 on Das Erste
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Director Jörg Grünler
script Martin Rauhaus
production Sabine Timmermann for Letterbox Filmproduktion GmbH
music Marcel Barsotti
camera Daniel Koppelkamm
cut Kai Schröter
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
Love at the Fjord - The Sea of ​​Women

Successor  →
Love at the Fjord - Two Summers

Farewell to Hannah is a German TV film by Jörg Grünler from 2012 . It is the fifth episode of the ARD film series Liebe am Fjord , whereby the individual films are linked by the fact that they are set against the backdrop of Norwegian fjords and have romantic melodramas as their content. Matthias Habich can be seen in this episode as a writer who has to come to terms with the death of his wife and who offends his children, played by Rainer Sellien , Catherine Bode and Fanny Staffa , more than once.

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The writer Henrik Agdestein, a veteran of Norwegian literature, withdraws from people even more after the death of his wife, who has been seriously ill in recent years, than is already his solitary nature. He doesn't have a very good relationship with his children Leif, Laura and Sonja. When they meet at the mother's funeral, old conflicts arise. His daughter Sonja is a teacher and travels with her husband and their two children. Laura, who works as a police officer and always had a good relationship with her father, comes on the motorcycle and Henrik's son Leif, who has made it to Norway's youngest Justice Minister, appears accompanied by his bodyguard Ulf Strahnge. The relationship between Henrik and Leif is particularly tense, as they broke up in an argument and haven't spoken to each other for a long time. Leif believes this has something to do with his attraction to men. The reception is frosty, especially since Mrs Bornedahl, who worked for the Agdesteins for 30 years, had been pissed off by the writer shortly before.

The funeral will not be as the children would have wished for their mother, which is also a decisive factor in the fact that Henrik Agdestein vehemently attacks the mourners who are waiting in the cemetery, asking whether they could not accept that he would only have a celebration in the family circle have wished. With Ulf Strahnge, on the other hand, intelligent and very empathetic, and like him and Hannah appreciating Satie's music , Henrik gets along very well from the first moment and even gives him an insight into his soul. All three children blame themselves for visiting their mother so seldom and for having planned meetings postponed again and again. A bitter realization. The situation between father and children escalates again when it comes to the gravestone for Hannah Agdestein and even ends in a slap that Henrik gives his son when he suggests that her mother may have become ill through his fault. Since Agdestein is too deeply caught in his grief, he expels his children after this affront of the house. When Laura later sought his closeness, he told her for the first time how it came about that he lost his foot, namely through the hardship of his own father. To his astonishment, Leif learns from Mrs. Bornedahl that his father collected and kept everything that was reported about him in the newspaper, followed all speeches and every television appearance of his son. In a conversation Leif confides to Ulf Strahnge, who is not only his bodyguard but also his friend, that he is convinced that his father despises him since he knew about his homosexuality, unlike his mother, who was with him at the time just hugged his opening without a word. When Leif, on the advice of his friend, tries to talk to his father again, he finds three farewell letters and a missing cartridge in his house. Terrified, he goes to the fjord, where he finds his father with a gun in his hand. His father asks him to leave him alone for a moment and to ensure that what has just happened remains between the two of them.

It is the day on which the children hold a funeral service for their mother at the local inn where they have taken up their quarters, to which everyone who wants to be there is invited. At the same time, they are exhibiting their mother's pictures. To everyone's surprise, Henrik also appears. He reads from his latest book and everyone can see that his words are a declaration of love to his wife, the deep love that has united him with Hannah is palpable. Finally, he tells his children how proud he is of each and every one of them.

Sonja's concern that her father will have to be left behind when they are gone, because Henrik has turned the entire village against him with his gruff manner, is now unfounded, because Henrik's speech has changed a lot for the villagers too - and Mrs. Bornedahl is coming back to support him back in the house.

Filming dates, publication

Ålesund, one of the filming locations

Farewell to Hannah was filmed from June 1 to June 30, 2011 on locations in Norway ( Ålesund region , Haramsøya island, Fjærland ).

The first broadcast of the film took place on Friday, October 19, 2012 in the program of ARD Das Erste .

reception

Audience rating

When it was first broadcast, Liebe am Fjord - Abschied von Hannah tuned in to 3.82 million viewers with a market share of 12.3 percent.

criticism

The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm tilted their thumbs to the side, gave one of three possible points for demand and tension and said: “If you are looking for shallow relaxation on Friday evening, you will be disappointed here. Instead of murmuring love between country house furniture, credible actors do tearful mourning work until the inevitable reunification. ”The conclusion was then:“ Well played, clumsy mourning piece. ”

Rainer Tittelbach dealt with the film on his page tittelbach.tv , which he gave 4.5 out of 6 possible stars. The critic praised: “'Farewell to Hannah' from the 'Love at the Fjord' series is a film about loss, about grief and the different ways of dealing with death. The accuracy of the narrative, the coherence of the characters and the resulting depth of feelings make it a true, subtle drama. You can't see Matthias Habich often enough. The lesser known actors are also convincing. Staged with a rich variety of overtones! Every word is correct, every glance, every (non-) touch, every camera view. ”Matthias Habich says that his“ misanthropic hermit is not a stinky boot that needs to be purified ”. Because this man has “reason to be the way he is”, this man “cannot be turned around, only his hard shell” could “get a few cracks that he wanted himself”. The “communication in Jörg Grünler's film based on the excellent book by Martin Rauhaus” is “so rich” - that “doesn't have much to do with TV melodrama!” “The faces” also “fit the landscape. Matthias Habich's physiognomy, markedly furrowed ”, could“ compete with the rugged fjord landscape ”. The other lesser-known actors also do the film good, "the foreign, the Norwegian touch", because you can see "the face and not the (big) name".

The film service wrote: “(TV) drama about buried feelings and the difficult handling of grief. - From 14. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Love at the Fjord - Farewell to Hannah see page daserste.de
  2. ↑ Love at the Fjord - Farewell to Hannah at crew united
  3. ↑ Love at the Fjord - Farewell to Hannah See tvspielfilm.de (including 18 film images). Retrieved February 21, 2020.
  4. ^ Rainer Tittelbach : Series "Love on the Fjord - Farewell to Hannah". Matthias Habich, Rauhaus, Grünler. Melodrama that turns out to be a sensitive drama see page tittelbach.tv . Retrieved February 21, 2020.
  5. ↑ Love at the Fjord - Farewell to Hannah. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed February 21, 2020 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used