A love for peace - Bertha von Suttner and Alfred Nobel
A love for peace - Bertha von Suttner and Alfred Nobel (also: Madame Nobel ) is an Austrian - German - Czech television film from 2014 by Urs Egger with Birgit Minichmayr as Bertha von Suttner and Sebastian Koch as Alfred Nobel . The first broadcast took place on December 10, 2014 on ORF and on January 3, 2015 in the first . The screenplay by Rainer Berg and Thomas Wendrich is based on the play Mr. & Mrs. Nobel by Esther Vilar .
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Before the award ceremony for the 1905 Nobel Peace Prize in Norway , Bertha von Suttner was asked about her relationship with Alfred Nobel , and she replied with “We were made for one another”.
In 1876 Bertha, née Countess Kinsky , worked as an educator at Harmannsdorf Castle in the house of Baron von Suttner. When Bertha and the son of the house, Arthur von Suttner , fall in love, it is a scandal for his parents because Bertha is seven years older than Arthur. Arthur's parents send Bertha away to apply to be Alfred Nobel's private secretary in Paris , where she is accepted. The two get along very well straight away, Alfred tells Bertha about a ballad he has written and then encourages Bertha to write too.
Two weeks after arriving in Paris, Nobel is ordered to Stockholm , where the king opens a new factory. Meanwhile Arthur visits Bertha in Paris, Arthur was disinherited and ostracized by his father. The two run away with each other. Nobel travels to Vienna , where he learns from the concierge that Arthur and Bertha got married hastily and moved to the Caucasus . There he also met the flower girl Sophie Hess, who accompanied him back to Paris. Alfred receives a letter from Bertha in which she informs him that she is hoping for a position for her husband in Petersburg.
Bertha and Arthur experience the Russo-Turkish War in the Caucasus . Arthur tries to work as a war correspondent to make money. Meanwhile, Bertha and Alfred exchange letters in which they express their horror at the atrocities of the war. Bertha learns from Arthur that the Tsar was killed by dynamite in an assassination attempt . Arthur and Bertha then return to his parents in Vienna.
After Bertha felt constrained by conservative society and its worldview in Vienna and missed the intellectual exchange, Bertha and Arthur visited Alfred Nobel in Paris, where he introduced them to the father of the French peace movement . The fact that Nobel created the conditions for war with his inventions such as dynamite and ballistite is above all a thorn in the side of Arthur. Nobel justifies himself by saying that others had made similar inventions and that he was only a little faster, and it also made it possible to build the Gotthard tunnel .
Back in Vienna, she processes her experiences in the Caucasus in her novel Die Waffen Nieder! At first, however, she could not find a publisher because too many would feel offended by the content. Nobel suggests that she publish in Leipzig, where her manuscript is finally accepted and published. The publication is translated into numerous languages and gives it its international breakthrough. With the income from the book sale she would like to support the participation of the Vienna group in the World Peace Congress in Rome , but Arthur wants to use the funds to rehabilitate the family-owned quarry.
Nobel is deprived of permission to conduct chemical experiments in France after selling the patent for ballistite. In France, this is viewed as treason, even though the French government had previously refused the purchase. He moves to Sanremo in Italy , where he bought a house by the sea. Due to financial difficulties, Bertha asks Alfred for financial help for the Peace Society, Nobel agrees to do so. After the two of them met at the International Peace Congress in Bern , Nobel wrote his will and donated the Nobel Prize with his fortune . Alfred Nobel dies, Bertha von Suttner is the first woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in 1905.
Production and Background
The shooting took place from April 23 to June 2, 2014 in Vienna and Lower Austria . Filming locations included the Schönbrunn Palace Park , the historic meeting room of the House of Representatives and the Federal Assembly in the Parliament building , Goldegg Palace and Harmannsdorf Palace, and the French Embassy in Vienna , which served as a noble apartment in Paris.
The film was produced by the Austrian Mona Film and the German Tivoli Film by the two producers Thomas Hroch and Gerald Podgornig , co-producer was the Czech Wilma Film sro , Austrian and Bavarian broadcasters and ARD Degeto were involved, and the production was supported by the television fund Austria, the Vienna Film Fund , the Bavarian FilmFernsehFonds , the Lower Austrian Culture Promotion Agency and MEDIA .
Thomas Szabolcs was responsible for the sound, Florian Reichmann for the equipment , Birgit Hutter for the costumes and Monika Fischer-Vorauer , Andreas Meixner and Karoline Strobl for the make-up .
Awards and nominations
- Romy Awards 2015 - Nomination in the category Best Producer TV Film
reception
The first broadcast on ORF was followed by an average of 648,000 viewers. In Germany, 3.36 million viewers saw the film when it was first broadcast on the first , the market share was 10.4 percent.
Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv described the film as a “monument to two thinkers of the late 19th century”. The film turns the historical acquaintance between Bertha von Suttner and Alfred Nobel into “an unfulfilled love of two great personalities who are meant for one another. The film is a dramaturgically and aesthetically unspectacular, emotionally well-tempered set with two great, confident actors. "
The Spiegel Online wrote that the film was produced consuming and absolutely wanted to pack as widescreen melodrama viewers. “Minichmayr is standing in the hospital with bloody hands, while a dramatic violin is playing in the background to the swirling horror. In reality, of course, this scene is of no use as a symbol, because war was a man's business (and is almost still exclusively), and sometimes, in the parts of the film that are marked as amorous, Suttner has to be too banal. "
Web links
- A love for peace - Bertha von Suttner and Alfred Nobel in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- A love for peace - Bertha von Suttner and Alfred Nobel at filmportal.de
- A love for peace - Bertha von Suttner and Alfred Nobel on the website of the First
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release for One Love for Peace - Bertha von Suttner and Alfred Nobel . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , February 2015 (PDF; test number: 149 898 V).
- ↑ A love for peace - Bertha von Suttner and Alfred Nobel (2014 TV Movie) - Release Info - IMDb . Retrieved March 9, 2018.
- ↑ a b c Mona Film: A Love for Peace . Retrieved March 9, 2018.
- ↑ orf.at: A love for peace - Bertha von Suttner and Alfred Nobel . Retrieved March 9, 2018.
- ↑ Tivoli Film: A Love for Peace . Retrieved March 9, 2018.
- ↑ 1.3 million viewers on Bertha von Suttner evening on ORF 2 . OTS notification dated December 9, 2014, accessed March 10, 2018.
- ↑ a b Rainer Tittelbach: TV film “A love for peace - Bertha von Suttner and Alfred Nobel” at tittelbach.tv , accessed on March 9, 2018.
- ↑ "A love for peace": love is like a bomb . Article from January 2, 2015, accessed on March 9, 2018.