Love by the fjord - the end of the ice age
| Episode in the series Love by the Fjord | |||
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| Original title | The end of the ice age | ||
| Country of production | Germany | ||
| original language | German | ||
| length | 90 minutes | ||
| classification | Episode 3 ( list ) | ||
| First broadcast | March 25, 2011 on Das Erste | ||
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| Director | Jörg Grünler | ||
| script | Martin Rauhaus | ||
| music | Andy Grudge | ||
| camera | Daniel Koppelkamm | ||
| cut | Kai Schröter | ||
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The End of the Ice Age is a German TV film by Jörg Grünler from 2011 . It is the third 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. Senta Berger plays Pernille Sörenbrandt, the mother of the half-siblings Annika and Henrik played by Sandra Borgmann and Thure Lindhardt .
The first introduced the film with the following words: “In this sensitively staged melodrama, Senta Berger and Sandra Borgmann appear as mother and daughter who are engaged in a family conflict with serious consequences. In the role of the autistic, Thure Lindhardt [...] sets the tone of the actor. The breathtaking fjord landscape of Norway gives the psychologically coherent film about the fate of two strong women its very own atmosphere. "
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Annika Sörenbrandt runs a successful online book-order business that she has built herself with great enthusiasm . She is happy with her life. Suddenly she received the telephone message that her mother Pernille had an accident on Fjærland , where she lives and where Annika's center of life was until she was eleven. Annika last saw her mother 25 years ago, when her parents separated.
After talking to her friend Mika, who is State Secretary in the Ministry of Culture, and persuading her, Annika decides to go to Fjærland, the place is widely known as a book village. Simon Österbrö, a friend of her mother's, who also called her, is waiting for her at the harbor. Österbrö is extremely versatile, his wife Helga tells Annika that he is very modest and that he brought out most of the Norwegian sagas and songs.
The reunion between mother and daughter after this long time is tense and characterized by a certain helplessness on both sides. At first it seems that her mother's injury is not serious and that Annika does not need to stay. At home she is confronted with her half-brother Henrik, who suffers from autism . She knew she had a brother but didn't know how he was doing and that he needed practically around the clock supervision. On the one hand, Henrik has an absolutely amazing memory and is a walking lexicon, on the other hand he has the mind of a child who needs certain rituals to feel safe. Annika's doubts that Henrik can actually know how many individual spaghetti are in a package is easily refuted.
When Annika has already decided to go back to Oslo, she learns from Simon Österbrö that her mother sustained a veritable traumatic brain injury when she fell down the stairs and that she had an intracerebral hemorrhage , as a result of which she almost died . Then Annika decides to stay at least another week. In a conversation Pernille said to her daughter that maybe her father could have lived with a disabled child but not with another man's child. For years she had to accept that her father had stories of women, but he couldn't bear and forgive a single misstep out of desperation and the longing for affection.
When Annika comes back from a reading, the kitchen is on fire. It is not the first fire caused by Henrik, as she learns to her dismay from her mother. The next day, at Pernille's request, she and her brother set off on a tour of Bøyabreen, one of the branches of the Jostedalsbreen glacier , where both of them were often as children. After the siblings return, there is a quarrel between mother and daughter, because Pernille Annika has deliberately concealed the fact that her publisher had scheduled a video conference on the same day to enable Henrik to spend a day with his sister. Annika feels that this is extremely disrespectful to her.
When she was looking for the company Simon Österbrös that day, he said it was time to give her something. It is her mother's diaries that reveal to Annika that it was her father who put her mother under pressure at the time by saying that Annika was the price she had to pay in the event of a divorce. Pernille's descriptions show Annika how great her mother's pain was at having lost her. On her return, Annika finds her mother unconscious. Henrik had removed the tablets that Pernille needed from their usual place. When Pernille comes to for a moment, she explains to Annika that her father has asked her to put Henrik in a home, if not, he will leave her with Annika. She couldn't give away the child she needed.
Although it is difficult for Pernille to give her consent, Annika eventually takes her brother with her to Oslo. Her mother's fears come true, however, Henrik feels lonely and abandoned in the completely unfamiliar environment and runs away after a few days. The search for him remains fruitless until Annika comes up with the idea of looking for him in the port area, where she can hug him. Mika, who is on the road with her, expresses what Annika has known for a long time, namely that Henrik needs the surroundings and the people who have been familiar to him from an early age. For Annika, that means going back to Fjærland, working over the Internet and only going to Oslo when necessary. Mika says he would rather see her every now and then and be happy than always and unhappy. When Annika's question was asked whether he actually knew what a great guy he was, Mika replied with a smile that he had to be a good match for her after all. And so sister and brother return to their mother Pernille.
Production notes
The film was created by Letterbox Filmproduktion GmbH. The editor responsible was Stefan Kruppa. The filming for The End of the Ice Age took place between May 31 and August 8, 2010 on locations in Norway , such as Fjærland and Sogndal .
reception
Publication, audience rating
Love at the Fjord - The End of the Ice Age was first broadcast on Friday, March 25, 2011, on ARD Das Erste, with 4.84 million viewers, with a market share of 15 percent. Das Erste released the film about Edel Germany GmbH together with the fourth episode Das Meer der Frauen on November 9, 2012 on DVD.
criticism
The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm gave the film an average rating by pointing their thumbs to the side and stated without further explanation: "Dramatized kitsch."
The critic Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv, on the other hand, dealt in detail with the film, which he gave 4.5 out of six possible stars, and summarized: "A melodrama from the spirit of a poetic realism," which a bizarre country, weave a strange illness and painful experience into a healing story. This genre is justified in this form. The film is well photographed, conveys a lot of the aura of its locations, the landscape not only reflects the inner life of the characters, the landscape also does something to them. Senta Berger and Sandra Borgmann are excellent, Grünler's direction is prudent, the book by Martin Rauhaus is wise. ”Tittelbach continued:“ The 90 minutes impress with concentrated two-person conversations, a combination of everyday behavior and great truthfulness of the negotiated. ”Senta Berger plays “quietly into herself” - she embodies Pernille “as an intelligent, insecure woman who has visibly inscribed the dilemma of her life in her body”. Sandra Borgmann is allowed to "play through all the nuances of the emotional life of a young, modern person". And “portraying an adult autistic person in a credible way” is “certainly not the easiest thing for an actor: respect for Thure Lindhardt's performance”.
Tilmann P. Gangloff (tpg), who rated the film for Kino.de , saw it similarly : “Senta Berger and Sandra Borgmann complement each other wonderfully in this mother / daughter drama, which Martin Rauhaus excellently wrote. [...] This film is a drama of rare sensitivity. As an outsider, you never know exactly how a script was originally designed and how much it still has to do with the finished film; but Martin Rauhaus and Jörg Grünler seem to have complemented each other perfectly. ”This time Senta Berger was allowed to enjoy the gift of“ formidable [r] dialogues ”. And yet the film is "always strongest when the two main actresses don't say anything": "because their silence is all the more eloquent". "It works because Sandra Borgmann Berger is an equal partner". Gangloff also wrote: “The Dane Thure Lindhardt, who has played important supporting roles in German productions for a number of years, acts as an autistic young man with a similar reluctance to the two colleagues. His facial expressions may seem expressionless most of the time, but his body language - posture, gait, gestures - speaks volumes. "
For the film service , the film presented itself as: “Conventional (television) melodrama about a family conflict with serious consequences, picturesquely set in the wild and romantic fjord landscape of Norway. - From 14. "
Web links
- Love the fjord - The end of the ice age in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Love at the fjord - the end of the ice age at crew united
- Love at the Fjord - The End of the Ice Age full film in the ARD media library (available up to and including July 20, 2020)
- Love at the Fjord - The End of the Ice Age further broadcast dates on Romance TV
Individual evidence
- ↑ Love at the Fjord - The end of the Ice Age see page daserste.de
- ↑ Love at the Fjord - The End of the Ice Age and ARD movie poster Cf. crew-united.com.
- ^ A b Rainer Tittelbach : TV film "Love at the Fjord - The End of the Ice Age". Senta Berger, Sandra Borgmann, Grünler, Rauhaus & the art of melodrama see page tittelbach.tv . Retrieved May 7, 2020.
- ↑ Love at the fjord with the consequences The End of the Ice Age and The Sea of Women see the picture on the DVD case
- ↑ Love at the Fjord - The End of the Ice Age See tvspielfilm.de (including 19 film images). Retrieved May 7, 2020.
- ↑ Tilmann P. Gangloff : Love at the Fjord: The end of the ice age see page kino.de (including photo series). Retrieved May 7, 2020.
- ↑ Love at the Fjord - The End of the Ice Age. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed May 7, 2019 .
