Loyal to men (film)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Loyal to men |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2014 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Hermione Huntgeburth |
| script | Thea Dorn |
| production |
Liane Jessen , Lili Kobbe |
| music |
Biber Gullatz , Andreas Schäfer |
| camera | Sebastian Edschmid |
| cut | Silke Franken |
| occupation | |
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Männertreu is a German film drama from 2014 with Matthias Brandt and Suzanne von Borsody in the leading roles. The television film by director Hermine Huntgeburth is based on a script by the writer Thea Dorn .
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Georg Sahl is in his 50s and in Frankfurt am Main the publisher and editor of a national newspaper with a liberal-conservative orientation, the Frankfurter Nachrichten . He is known as the Homme de lettres and has just been awarded the Ludwig Börne Prize in the Kaisersaal of the Frankfurt Roman . When the topic of a Christian-Conservative Prime Minister arises in the editorial conference, who has become the father of an illegitimate child , Georg does not want the topic to be spread in his paper.
Although Georg has been happily married to his wife Franziska, a lawyer, for 35 years, he cheats on them regularly. He is currently having an affair with Nina, a volunteer in her mid-twenties. As Georg showed Nina that he loves her and she reciprocates the feeling, one day she visits Franziska's office and wants to tell her the truth. But Franziska reacts seemingly cool and composed and replies that Georg only really loves himself and that he "always" needs women like her, but will only need his wife "always".
The Lord Mayor of Frankfurt suggested that Sahl apply for the office of Federal President and made it clear to him that the Chancellor had proposed him because he was “eligible for everyone” and this was necessary due to the narrow majority in the Federal Assembly .
Georg's son Thomas and his wife Judith have a daughter named Paula and run an agency together. Thomas has noticed his father's numerous affairs and, after he was on the phone at a meeting with his lover and did not even think about apologizing or changing, Thomas has had enough and no longer wants to watch how he is cheating on his mother. He guesses the password of his father's computer and writes an email to Nina from his user account in which he addresses her by the name Judith and thanks her for the last night. In Georg's office, Nina finds the information that he has an appointment in Hamburg that evening and is appearing on Helen Martin's talk show. She then travels to Hamburg to confront him. After appearing on the talk show, he looks for the presenter in her dressing room and has sex with her. Nina is already waiting for him in the hotel and shows him the mail. He can't explain it to himself, but he doesn't feel like discussing it with her either and wants to break up with her. First they come closer again and undress, but then Nina notices that Georg had had sex with someone shortly before her. Annoyed and with tears in her eyes, she runs out of the hotel across the street and is hit by a car.
After Georg sees the lifeless body of Nina on the street from his hotel window, he calls his wife in the middle of the night and asks her to come and help him. When she arrives at his place, she takes Nina's handbag and key and seeks the coma in the hospital, where she secretly steals her smartphone. With the key she gains unauthorized access to Nina's apartment, destroys photos there and takes her notebook and other documents for the relationship with Georg.
Nevertheless, the press finds out that Georg and Nina were in the same hotel and that there was a connection between them. The mayor knew that Georg was not a blank slate, but reproached him for sleeping with an employee from his publishing house. He is now assigned to Loebmann, who specializes in public relations, and who becomes his spokesman.
Franziska has now gone through Nina's private messages on her smartphone and came across the email with the name Judith. Since that is also the name of her son's wife, she now suspects them. She goes to her and asks her directly if she has slept with her husband. Surprised by Franziska's demeanor, she admits that she actually had a sexual relationship with Georg a long time ago. It is dawning on Franziska that tolerating her husband's affairs was a mistake. Thomas notices that his wife is behaving strangely, and when she explains that she is surprisingly going to the print shop, he secretly follows her and sees Judith meeting Georg in a park.
At a festive dinner hosted by the Sahl family, Thomas can no longer stand the feigned harmony and mendacity of his family. The situation escalates and Judith finally confesses her affair with Georg. He called Helen Martin during a live broadcast and revealed that he had sex with her too. The next day he made a statement to the press that he was stepping down from the candidacy for federal president and from the post of editor of his newspaper. However, he has nothing to reproach himself for and considers the discussion about his infidelity only to be "a theater of excitement". Meanwhile, Thomas is leaving his wife indefinitely, and Nina wakes up from a coma in the hospital. Georg and Franziska continue their marriage. In the garden Georg meets a young gardener who takes care of the Sahls' plants instead of the old one. Instead of Mannertreu she is now planting Adonis in the garden .
background
- The film produced by Hessischer Rundfunk for ARD had its world premiere on July 2, 2014 at the Munich Film Festival . It was first broadcast on television on July 30, 2014 at 8.15 p.m. on ARD and reached a viewing rate of 17.7 percent with 4.97 million viewers.
- The shooting took place in April and May 2013 in Frankfurt , Offenbach , Wiesbaden and Aarbergen .
- The film uses the songs Sunday Morning by The Velvet Underground and Modern Love by David Bowie .
Reviews
“'Männertreu' is a strong piece for a German television film at prime time, even in its explicity. But those in charge put one more thing on top: the opinion maker, who slobbered around the German political and media scene in a smug and smug lecturing, is reminiscent of Frank Schirrmacher , who died in June, in many ways . Like him, Sahl works as the publisher of a high-quality Frankfurt newspaper, and like Schirrmacher, Sahl is, it is said at the beginning, 'one of the last great bourgeois liberals'. "
“But the author Thea Dorn started the script with the Dominique Strauss-Kahn affair as an idea. […] But in this film, which is rich in allusions and the art of playing, there are also hints about Horst Seehofer's illegitimate child, about the Guttenbergs ( Stephanie and Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg ). And at the end there is a retreat scene, which reminds of the resignation of Christian Wulff , with the subtle difference that Sahl pulls the rip cord before he can be elected. "
“Sahl's wife endures the infidelities up to self-denial and does everything for an intact facade, but in reality there are enough prominent examples of self-confident sufferers at the side of prominent politicians. The young lover Sahls is a volunteer for the newspaper, and of course it is no coincidence that the term 'intern' is also used. [...] Apart from that, the film is not only characterized by its content, but also by its representational complexity; Nevertheless, Matthias Brandt still stands out from the good ensemble. "
“German films about politics, about affairs in office or the power of the fourth estate are rare on German television. If they do exist, they look for real events in order to be able to generate event character. [...] In this way, films such as 'The Resignation', ' The Spiegel Affair ' or ' The Minister ' were honored in the mass media. “Männertreu” takes a different path, so the film does not cling to the chronology of real events, neither relies on non-film assumptions in the sense of a key TV novel nor on a popular genre presentation. Rather, Dorn relies on a complex narrative, on the clever interweaving of a family story with a media scandal. [...] A rarity in television films of this decade. "
“He leads such a promiscuous life that the viewer can only be amazed. It is not entirely clear why the successful publisher of a national newspaper can come up with the idea that this would be relevant in connection with a candidate for federal presidency, but not particularly. And above all, how he can still think when one of his countless dumped lovers gets in front of a car and is seriously injured. […] However, it is entertaining to see the demand for absolutely free love about a so-called conservative liberal re-emerge in public. "
"Take Matthias Brandt these educated classes - Macho Sahl easily from - it has the representational class and even had a father whose life is quite impressive parallels to this role. Almost everything else is right in this film by director Hermine Huntgeburth and screenwriter Thea Dorn. It is a wonderfully nasty experimental set-up to confront the man who - with the one exception mentioned - upholds all old values with what he calls theater of excitement. "
Awards
- The film was nominated for the 2014 Bernd Burgemeister TV Prize as part of the “New German Television” series at the Munich Film Festival .
- German television award for "Best Television Film".
- Grimme Prize 2015 to Thea Dorn (book), Hermine Huntgeburth (direction), Matthias Brandt , Suzanne von Borsody and Maxim Mehmet (representation).
Web links
- Lobelia in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Loyal to men at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for male loyalty . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , November 2014 (PDF; test number: 148 403 V).
- ↑ There is a cool drip behind this newspaper in Spiegel Online from July 29, 2014.
- ↑ Power is pleasure in Süddeutsche Zeitung from July 30, 2014.
- ↑ TV tip of the day: "Männertreu" (ARD) in GEP from July 30, 2014.
- ↑ TV film "Männertreu" in Tittelbach.tv from July 30, 2014.
- ↑ Times mager: Männertreu in Frankfurter Rundschau from July 29, 2014.
- ^ Last Kotzbrocken Standing in Die Tageszeitung from July 30, 2014.
- ↑ Prize winners. In: deutscher-fernsehpreis.de. Retrieved October 3, 2014 .
- ↑ Grimme Prize 2015: Prize winners and the jury's reasoning ( Memento of the original from December 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed October 15, 2015
