Love by the fjord - two summers

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Episode in the series Love by the Fjord
Original title Two summers
Country of production Germany
original language German
length 89 minutes
classification Episode 6 ( list )
First broadcast October 25, 2013 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Matthias Tiefenbacher
script Astrid Ströher based
on an idea by María Sólrún
production Sabine Timmermann
music Biber Gullatz ,
Andreas Schäfer
camera Klaus Merkel
cut Raimund Vienken
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
Love at the Fjord - Farewell to Hannah

Successor  →
Love at the fjord - pull of the tides

Zwei Sommer is a German television film by Matthias Tiefenbacher from 2013 . It is the sixth 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. In the main roles, Hannelore Elsner and Hildegard Schmahl play two friends who fall apart because of their love for the same man who is embodied by Christian Brückner .

The first wrote when the film was broadcast: “Christian Brückner plays the man between the two with great charm: Germany's most famous voice actor, who lends his voice to Robert De Niro , among others , lets a lot echo between the lines. Matthias Tiefenbacher carefully staged the melodrama about unavoidable contradictions in life based on a book by Astrid Ströher with fascinating images of the changeable Norwegian landscape. "

action

Johanna Claesen and Sigrun Birksen have been friends since childhood. Although they haven't seen each other for many years, they never lost contact with each other. Johanna's marriage has since failed and she has returned to her hometown, where she has taken over the post office, which has been orphaned for a long time. Before she retired, she ran a library. Her relationship with her son Filip is not what she would like it to be. Sigrun, on the other hand, advanced her career as a specialist in distant Copenhagen. Johanna's joy is great when her friend returns and moves into the house next to her in order to finally tackle a book project that has been postponed for a long time. Johanna now meets Eric Birksen, a teacher with whom Sigrun is almost newly married. Although Eric initially fears that he will now have less of his wife, he quickly realizes that he has many common interests with Johanna. The time that the three of you spend is happy and carefree.

Although the Birksens seem very much in love, Johanna notices some discrepancies between them. Unexpectedly, Sigrun is asked by her former employer to return to the company for two weeks because he needs her help. Johanna and Eric continue their meeting even in Sigrun's absence and grow closer and closer. Johanna does not want to give in to her burgeoning feelings and desperately defends herself against it. When Eric invites her onto the boat he bought from Magnus Petterson, they spend special hours together on a small, uninhabited island. A night follows when passion is stronger than all reason. In the following days, both avoid a meeting.

When Sigrun returns, Eric sees only one way to save his marriage and confesses the truth to his wife. Sigrun is deeply hurt and doesn't even want to believe what Eric is telling her. When he then confesses to her that there is something that goes deeper than mere lust, it is like a knife stab in her heart. She demands that Johanna leave her hometown. Johanna is determined to respond to her son's request and come to Oslo to look after her grandson for about a year. Even when Johanna wants to say goodbye, Sigrun punishes her with silence, while Eric is hugged one last time by her.

But there is also silence between Eric and Sigrun, which emanates from Sigrun. When Eric was able to persuade his wife to talk to him again after more than two months, she said that it would probably never occur to him that what he called reproach was just pain. Eric says he knows what that means, he knows that very well and then breaks off in the middle of a word to collapse in Sigrun's arms. Berit, a young woman friend from Johanna's hometown, calls her and tells her that Eric has had a stroke and is now in the hospital. He was put into an artificial coma. Johanna returns to visit Eric in the hospital. Sitting by his bed, she confesses her love to him without noticing that Sigrun has stepped up and is listening to everything. The other day Sigrun receives a call: Eric is dead.

A year later: Sigrun gives Johanna the urn with Eric's ashes. She didn't want a grave… “where I could have visited him”, adds Johanna and adds whether it is so important now who has loved whom, when so little of a person remains. Together the women go out with the "Liberty" and hand Eric's ashes to the sea. They have found each other again and none of them will have to be alone in the long winter that follows.

production

Filming, production notes

For Zwei Sommer , the film was shot on locations in Norway (Farsund, Loshavn, Sogndalstrand) from September 6th to October 2nd, 2012 . The film was produced by Letterbox Filmproduktion GmbH and Studio Hamburg GmbH. The editor responsible for ARD Degeto was Stefan Kruppa.

Soundtrack

reception

Publication, audience rating

The first broadcast of the film on Friday, October 25, 2013, in the program of ARD Das Erste was tuned in by 3.07 million viewers, which corresponded to a market share of 10.1 percent.

criticism

The critics of the TV magazine TV Spielfilm gave the film one of three possible points for humor and tension, pointed with the thumb to the side, and spoke of a "Schmonzette whose platitude the actors would cover with dignity". The conclusion was: "The senior trio do the kitsch okay."

Rainer Tittelbach gave the film four out of six possible stars on his website tittelbach.tv and summarized his criticism as follows: “The sixth episode under the Melo label 'Liebe am Fjord' continues the path to emotionally concentrated, dramaturgically reduced drama. Not much happens in 'Zwei Sommer' - and that is precisely the strength of Matthias Tiefenbacher's film, who is also looking for the small and sensitive in the visual. The characters acknowledge their feelings. With Hannelore Elsner, Hildegard Schmahl & 'voice' Christian Brückner, there is hardly any suspicion of kitsch. ”The critic also found that“ with actors like Hannelore Elsner, Hildegard Schmahl and 'voice' Christian Brückner ”it was“ no problem to get feelings to confess - without constantly carrying them loudly in front of you ”. Anyone who likes “such a sensitive mixture of drama and melodrama” will “see the quality of this film in it”.

Ulrich Schilling praised in Der Westen : “Strong actors, strong feelings, even the weather is honest. 'Liebe am Fjord' is one of the ARD's strongest series when it comes to staging interpersonal relationships. And it's fun to watch Christian Brückner, Hannelore Elsner and Hildegard Schmahl do it. ”From the“ silly stirring piece ”,“ this demanding series is as far removed as Goethe from Pilcher . As in the Kammerspiel “, emotions, happiness and sorrow, sadness and jubilation, in front of a picturesque, never intrusive backdrop are dramaturgically condensed”. [...] "Three people, three strong actors, more" do not need "to tell a true, painful story intelligently". It is "the great strength" of the director that he does not "hammer the disastrous development into the plot".

The film service summed it up laconically: “Prominent (TV) melodrama that rests too much on its sappy moments in front of a picturesque backdrop. - From 14. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Love at the fjord - two summers see page daserste.de
  2. ↑ Love at the Fjord - Two Summers Cf. crew-united.com
  3. ↑ Love at the fjord - two summers see page degeto.de
  4. ↑ Love at the fjord - two summers see page letterbox-filmproduktion.de
  5. ↑ Two summers See tvspielfilm.de (including 7 film images). Retrieved May 24, 2020.
  6. ^ Rainer Tittelbach : Series "Love at the Fjord - Two Summers". Elsner, Schmahl, Brückner, Ströher, Tiefenbacher. Friendship, love, landscape see page tittelbach.tv. Retrieved May 24, 2020.
  7. ↑ Ulrich Schilling: Liebe am Fjord shows Brückner, Elsner and Schmahl in top form. In: Der Westen, October 22, 2016.
    Accessed on May 24, 2020.
  8. ↑ Love at the Fjord - Two Summers. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed May 24, 2020 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used