Love is the best medicine

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Movie
Original title Love is the best medicine
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2004
length 85 minutes
Rod
Director Hannu Salonen
script Mathias Klaschka
Sebastian Andrae
production Britta Hansen
Tanja Ziegler
music Karim Sebastian Elias
camera Eberhard Geick
cut Magdolna Rokob
occupation

Love is the best medicine is a film comedy by Finnish director Hannu Salonen from 2004 and a German production . In the main role , Dominic Raacke embodies the renowned city doctor Dr. Peter Haller, who returns to his rural hometown to settle the estate of his (supposedly) deceased father.

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Peter Haller is a successful city doctor. He had long since finished his life in the country when one day he received the news that his father, the successful country doctor Professor Maximilian Haller, had died. Peter is forced to return to his hometown. He does not feel any particular sadness about his father's death, as he broke off contact with him years ago. Peter only remembers his father Maximilian as a heartless person who could not prevent Peter's mother from losing her agony to cancer when he was just ten years old. Since then, Peter has been firmly convinced that Maximilian, as a doctor, does not have the necessary competence and that he also values ​​his work more than his family.

When Peter arrived in the rural area, he had no inkling of the events that had been hidden from him until then. His father Maximilian is not dead at all, on the contrary, Maximilian, with the help of his friend Wenzel and the housekeeper Clara, only faked his own death in order to persuade Peter to take over the rural practice, since Maximilian is no longer in a good health position to continue walking country practice.

However, Peter is determined to settle the estate as quickly as possible and then to leave the rural area that he has become unpopular with.

At the urging of the housekeeper Clara, Peter lets himself be persuaded to spend a night in his parents' house. He has to admit to himself that in the meantime, childlike memories arise in him that he has repressed for a long time. This one night turns into several nights. During this time, Peter gets to know the attractive Stella, who runs a pizzeria in town. Peter realizes that she has a sensitive character, because she often faints when she feels overwhelmed by the external circumstances. At first Peter pretends to take care of Stella purely medically until he has to admit to himself that he is in love with her.

When the first rumors began to circulate in the rural idyll, where everyone knows each other, that the city doctor Peter might have fallen in love with the rural Stella, Stella decided to end her engagement with Giuseppe, as Stella was also for Peter has developed certain feelings.

This is the time when the father, believed dead by Peter, decides to make his plan public and to reveal the truth to his son about his fake death. The plot of the film takes a dramatic turn when Peter has to defend himself against Stella's former fiancé Giuseppe in his parents' house and his father Maximilian suffers a (real) heart attack in the garden of the property .

Production notes

Regina Ziegler produced with her own production company, Regina Ziegler-Filmproduktion , on behalf of ARD. The film was shot in Berlin .

Publication dates

Love is the best medicine was first broadcast on July 16, 2004 on ARD .

Reviews

Overall, the reviews were rather mixed. For example, TV Spielfilm only certifies that the film is nothing more than a “kitsch romance”; the devastating conclusion of the program magazine is: "Smack around until the country doctor comes".

The lexicon of international film states that the production is just an undemanding film comedy. However, the résumé of the TV magazine Prisma speaks against this, which is of the opinion that love is the best medicine is a romantic comedy.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Love is the best medicine in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  2. ↑ a b Love is the best medicine in the lexicon of international filmsTemplate: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used
  3. ↑ Love is the best medicine - film review - film - TV SPIELFILM. In: tvspielfilm.de. Retrieved November 2, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Love Is The Best Medicine (2003) - Films. In: prisma.de. Retrieved November 2, 2015 .