My heart in Chile
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | My heart in Chile |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2008 |
| length | 185 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jörg Grünler |
| script | Jörg Grünler, Kathrin Richter , Andrea Stoll |
| production |
Nico Hofmann , Jürgen Schuster , Sascha Schwingel |
| music | Marius Felix Lange |
| camera | Daniel Koppelkamm |
| cut | Jens Müller |
| occupation | |
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Mein Herz in Chile is a two-part German TV film by Jörg Grünler with Hannelore Elsner and Bettina Zimmermann from 2008.
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The Hansen family from Hamburg lead a completely normal life. Laura Hansen is a doctor in a hospital, her older daughter Isabel is an artist and the younger, Esther, is expecting a child. When they want to celebrate Father Herbert's 60th birthday, a letter arrives from Chile . Laura leaves immediately for Santiago de Chile , where she was once born, but does not tell her daughters the reason for their abrupt departure. However, they learn from the letter that their Chilean grandmother is dying. Isabel gets angry because her mother used to say her parents were killed in a car accident.
Laura fled her home country to Germany 34 years ago because, as a supporter of Salvador Allende, shortly before the coup in Chile in 1973 , she was on a military death list. Her terminally ill mother Gloria is happy to see her again after all these years. In Santiago, Laura also meets with her old companion Gaspar Kolbe, who has since become a successful businessman. Shortly afterwards, she sees Carlos Sanchez again, with whom she was once in love. However, he simply leaves her standing without speaking to her.
Daughter Isabel is also traveling to Chile to see her grandmother. When she arrives at her grandparents' villa, she learns from the housekeeper Donna Salinas that her grandfather, an idealistic doctor, was once captured and murdered as an opponent of the military. Isabel then visits her grandmother in the hospital. Before she dies, she bequeaths the villa to Isabel, all the land, as well as valuable government bonds and treasury bonds. However, Gloria's will shows that she bequeathed her property including the villa to the “Sanchez Foundation”, which cares for the victims of the military dictatorship. After Laura was threatened with a gun by a man in her hotel room, she called her husband Herbert and asked him to come to Gloria's funeral in Chile and stand by her side. When it turns out that Gloria's will has been forged, Isabel decides to investigate. The charming taxi driver Ricardo, a former sports reporter and aspiring writer, helps her with this. Meanwhile, Laura worries that Isabel will be in danger and that she may also find out that Carlos' father, Colonel Sanchez, is on her conscience.
Carlos also appears at Gloria's funeral in the coastal town of Valparaíso . He finally wants to know from Laura why she murdered his father. She says it is too late to explain to him. She can hardly remember the circumstances that led to Colonel Sanchez's death. Her mother once had an affair with Sanchez. When Laura's father was deported, Laura went to Sanchez and asked for help. A moment later she woke up on the floor, gun in hand. The shot Sanchez lay over her. She can't remember anything more.
After Herbert returned to Germany alone, Isabel was arrested for allegedly smuggling marijuana . Laura's friend Gaspar is on good terms and makes a deal with the police. Isabel is expected to leave the country immediately after her release. But instead of getting on the plane to Germany, Isabel runs away and is followed by the police. Finally she finds shelter with Ricardo. Isabel then finds out that her mother was in a monastery shortly before she escaped and was pregnant with her at the time. So Herbert is not her father. Her real father, Carlos Sanchez, allegedly no longer wanted to see Laura and ultimately let her down.
When Laura remembers receiving lemonade from his servant Juan shortly before her conversation with Sanchez, her old friend Elsa says that it could have contained sleeping pills and that she therefore cannot remember what happened. Elsa encourages Laura to reopen the murder case. Gaspar should now help her to get the necessary police files. When Laura visits a possible witness, she finds her with her throat cut. Laura learns from Donna Salinas about a housekeeper who has worked for the Sanchez family from time to time and who could help solve the murder case. Laura and Gaspar go looking for her.
In the meantime, Isabel and Ricardo look for Carlos in his mountain hut, where Isabel tells him that she is his daughter. She also accuses him of being involved in dubious business as the founder of the “Sanchez Foundation” and of being responsible for forging Gloria's will. Carlos assures her that he did not know that Laura was once pregnant by him and that Gloria's villa now belongs to his foundation. As it finally turns out, it was the notary Rodriguez who, as managing director of the foundation, forged the will. Gaspar had founded front companies with Rodriguez in order to buy real estate from the foundation for little money and to sell them to investors for far more money. Gloria's villa and land were to become part of a huge hotel complex. Carlos and Isabel are now on their way to save Laura from Gaspar.
When Gaspar and Laura stop on their way to the housekeeper at a hilltop to enjoy the beautiful view, Gaspar confesses to her that he has always loved her. He prepares to shoot her with a pistol, but cannot bring himself to do it. A man suddenly shoots from a passing car at Gaspar, who is fatally hit and falls to the ground while Laura rolls down a slope. Carlos and Isabel arrive shortly afterwards on the scene and bring Laura to safety. The housekeeper tells them that it was Gaspar who murdered Carlos' father and put the gun in the hand of the unconscious Laura. It turns out that Colonel Sanchez was a member of the military but was against a coup. Gaspar, on the other hand, had allied himself with the generals and, like them, wanted to stop socialism because he saw his career as a businessman threatened. After all these years, the old generals wanted to get rid of him as another witness to their crimes and therefore had him shot.
While Isabel and Ricardo find each other, Laura is relieved that she was not the murderer of Colonel Sanchez. Carlos asks her forgiveness for not looking after her and her daughter. Laura finally wants to return to Germany to help her pregnant daughter Esther, but promises to return to Chile as soon as possible.
background
The shooting took place from October 13th to December 22nd 2007 at original locations in Hamburg , Santiago de Chile and Valparaíso . Originally, Terence Hill was supposed to play Carlos Sanchez. After his cancellation, Franco Nero was given the role because, with a view to the sales market in Italy, they absolutely wanted to cast an Italian actor who was also known to German viewers.
The two-parter was broadcast for the first time on October 5 and 6, 2008 by ZDF on German television. The first part saw 4.9 million viewers, which corresponded to a market share of 14.3%. In the second part, around five million viewers tuned in (market share 15.8 percent). On October 27, 2008, My Heart was also released on DVD in Chile .
Reviews
For the lexicon of international films , My Heart in Chile was a “wild colportage of love melodrama, history lessons and political thriller”. According to Prisma , "two-part specialist" Jörg Grünler had achieved "a well-cast mix of melodrama and thriller" with the film, but also delivered "a rather sloppy approach to the Chilean military coup of 1973". In addition, there are "some very bumpy script turns". TV Spielfilm simply drew the conclusion: “A good story in an unimaginative staging.” “After all, the increasingly dense and exciting story is consoling over the stilted dialogues that tend to be too wooden on television,” said Nina Rehfeld from Spiegel .
Web links
- My Heart in Chile in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release for My Heart in Chile . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; September 2016; test number: 115 462 V).
- ↑ a b Nina Rehfeld: ZDF melodrama "My Heart in Chile": Ancestral drama in the Andes . In: Der Spiegel , October 5, 2008.
- ↑ TV ratings: ARD crime scene before ZDF drama Mein Herz in Chile ( Memento of the original from October 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . filmstarts.de, October 6, 2008.
- ↑ "Rach - the restaurant tester" beats the "Simpsons" on horizont.net
- ↑ My heart in Chile. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ My heart in Chile. In: prisma.de. prisma-Verlag , accessed on September 12, 2017 .
- ↑ cf. tvspielfilm.de
