Love at the fjord - The woman on the beach

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Episode in the series Love by the Fjord
Original title The woman on the beach
Country of production Germany
original language German
length 90 minutes
classification Episode 8 ( list )
First broadcast April 25, 2014 on Das Erste
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Director Matthias Tiefenbacher
script Martin Rauhaus
production Sabine Timmermann
music Biber Gullatz ,
Andreas Schäfer
camera Isolda knight
cut Benjamin Hembus
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
Love at the Fjord - Pull of the Tides

Successor  →
Love at the Fjord - Under the Ice

Die Frau am Strand is a German TV film by Matthias Tiefenbacher from 2014 . It is the eighth episode of the ARD film series Love at the Fjord , whereby the individual films have in common that they are set against the backdrop of Norwegian fjords and have romantic melodramas as their content.

The press portal of the first wrote of a “melodrama” with “life-wise emotionality” that tells of “inevitable contradictions in life”. The “changeable Norwegian landscape is not just a backdrop, but rather reflects the interior of the characters”.

action

A car was traveling at high speed on a coastal road in Norway when it drifts off the road and overturns. It is a miracle that the driver of the car survived the accident with only a few small wounds. The woman is top manager Brigitta Nielebeck, who suffered transient global amnesia in the accident . She doesn't know who she is or where she was going. At the hospital, Dr. Brandstrüp that it didn't even take the papers she had with her to know who she was. He offers her a book written by her with the remark that up until a year ago she was one of the most successful women in Norway, then she stopped working to take on new tasks, they said.

Since Brigitta's divorced husband is in South Africa, Dr. Brandstrüp to contact Brigitta's 16-year-old daughter Marie. Marie has been living in a foster family for more than two years. Contact with her mother is completely broken. Marie does not want to be reminded of her previous life as she associates this time with loneliness and painful losses. Her foster mother Wibeke Berglund tells Marie that no skid marks were found and that her mother was not wearing a seat belt, which suggests that it was not an accident, but an attempt to leave life behind. It is only thanks to the encouragement of her foster mother Wibeke that Marie is ready to make an attempt to help her birth mother.

Since the Nielebecks own a beach house right by the sea, the women respond to Brigitta's wish to go there to bring back memories in Brigitta. It is also the place where the former family was really happy. Marie says the family went to the beach house every summer. Wibeke suggests that there were great difficulties between Marie and her. However, Marie said next to nothing about her past. It is also she who puts Brigitta and her impatience in their place. Then the day comes when Marie speaks to Wibeke. She tells of her love for a young man and that she and her boyfriend were not paying attention and then she was pregnant and all hell had broken loose. Her parents had reproached her for being only fourteen and ruining her life. She really wanted her child, but her parents were stronger. She couldn't cope with it and took drugs and slipped. Her parents tried to settle everything with money, then arguments were the order of the day and ultimately the separation. Mother and daughter are only slowly approaching each other again, which has to do with Wibekes patient mediation.

Brigitta's ex-husband appears at a request from Wibeke. Kurt is a successful architect and businessman who seems to have long since finished with the past and the massive problems the family had. Through Kurt, Brigitta learns more about the past. When Marie was no longer there, everything was black and empty. In the end they both drank, she added pills and he hit her three times. Separation was the only option.

Before Kurt drives again, he casts doubts about Brigitta's ongoing amnesia. Significantly, he says to Wibeke that his ex-wife still got what she wanted and in this case she wanted her child with her. But only this night Brigitta's memory comes back and shows her pictures from the past. She rushes to the beach and breaks down crying. When Wibeke caught her on the phone the next morning, she just wanted to know how long her memory was back. Brigitta then asks her to give her 48 hours with her child. After a happy day at the amusement park, Brigitta betrays herself and again draws her daughter's anger on herself. The end of the song is Brigitta getting into the car to do what she didn't manage the first time, as Marie notes.

While the women try to catch up with Brigitta, Marie tells her foster mother that her parents made an appointment for an abortion for her, even though she would have loved to have her child. Her boyfriend was on the way to see her that day, he stood by her and wanted to keep his child. To be there before the fateful intervention could have happened, he drove too fast and had an accident. Two people died that night - father and child. With the help of Kurt, who is on his way to the beach house again, Brigitta succeeds in dissuading her from her plan. She apologizes to her daughter, she should have done better. Just like Marie, Kurt also assures Brigitta that he doesn't want her to go either. Marie's decision to stay with the Berglunds because they would be good for her is both accepted. In the future, however, you want to see each other more often and spend more time together.

Production, publication

For the woman on the beach was from 6 August to 4 September 2012. locales (Loshavn, Sogndalstrand and around Farsund,) in Norway rotated. The film was produced by Letterbox Filmproduktion GmbH and Studio Hamburg Film Produktion on behalf of ARD Degeto for Das Erste . The editing for Degeto Film was with Stefan Kruppa.

The first broadcast of the film took place on Friday, April 25, 2014, in the program of ARD Das Erste.

reception

Audience rating

When it was first broadcast, the film was viewed by 3.62 million viewers, corresponding to a market share of 12.7 percent.

criticism

The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm gave the film the best possible rating, they showed the thumbs up and said that Matthias Tiefenbacher had "sensitively staged an unsentimental chamber play". The conclusion was: "Chamber play with many nuances."

Rainer Tittelbach dealt with the film on his page tittelbach.tv , which he gave 4½ out of 6 possible points. Tittelbach began with an indirect question: “How is a severely traumatized teenage daughter supposed to help her 'terrible mother' who has no memory of the hells of yore?” And then continued: “'The woman on the beach' is not a discursive family drama , but an ARD Friday film, which circles its subject, psychological crises & disturbed communication, on the level of feeling, far away from everyday life, without giving up the externality of the melodrama. The heart of this psychotherapeutic experimental arrangement is the multi-layered book by Martin Rauhaus, the staging that mediates between closeness and distance and an outstanding trio of actresses. ”The critic praised the“ psychologically ”and“ dramaturgically well thought-out script ”and the“ everyday ”and“ effective dialogues "As well as the work of the" congenial "cameraman Klaus Merkel. Katja Flint brings her "great emotional genre role experience, and Marie-Lou Sellem" is also "a safe bet for realistic women with a clear attitude and healthy empathy. The most difficult task "is assigned to" Michel Barthel [...]. Your figure "must withstand the greatest suffering. The Grimme Prize winner mastered the task with flying colors - her play between anger, isolation & quiet approach, Marie's respective sensitivities, but also her volatility largely determine the course of the action. Despite this famous trio of women [is] 'The woman on the beach' far more than a so-called 'actor film'? If it is a critical phrase, then [hit] it 'dramatic total work of art' much better. "

The film service gave limited praise: “Well-acted, believably developed mother-daughter (television) drama, which, however, shows the wildly romantic landscape all too clearly as a symbol for the family relationship. - From 14. "

Heike Hupertz rated the film in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and wrote that it was "about jealousy, lies and an attempted suicide". [...] The television film places “its main characters in a dramaturgically attractive experimental arrangement” and shows “an essay about memory and guilt”. It is carried “above all by the actresses who act with many nuances, and that [is] necessary because the script by Martin Rauhaus does not deal with too much plausibility checking of the external details of his story. Instead, it is more about psychological consequences, tensions and moods. ”[…] This genre-twitter from thriller and family drama with extended staff […] also because of the camera work by Klaus Merkel. How the weather and panoramas at the sea reflect the state of mind, seem to have been copied not least from the night side of romance.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The first shooting in Norway for two new melodramas in the series “Liebe am Fjord” see page presseportal.de
  2. ↑ Love at the fjord - The woman on the beach Cf. crew-united.com. Retrieved June 9, 2020.
  3. ↑ The woman on the beach Fig. Film poster Das Erste (in the picture: Katja Flint)
  4. ↑ Love on the Fjord - The Woman on the Beach See tvspielfilm.de (including 12 film images). Retrieved June 9, 2020.
  5. ^ Rainer Tittelbach : TV film "The woman on the beach". Flint, Sellem, Barthel, Rauhaus, Tiefenbacher. Family constellation with a view see page tittelbach.tv. Retrieved June 9, 2020.
  6. ↑ Love on the Fjord - The Woman on the Beach. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed June 9, 2020 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  7. ↑ Heike Hupertz: It is like a white sheet of paper In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , April 25, 2014. Retrieved on June 9, 2020.