my beautiful daughter

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Movie
Original title my beautiful daughter
Country of production Austria
original language German
Publishing year 2004
length 90 minutes
Rod
Director Xaver Schwarzenberger
script Ulrike Schwarzenberger
camera Xaver Schwarzenberger
cut Helga Borsche
occupation

My beautiful daughter is a TV film by the Austrian director Xaver Schwarzenberger .

action

After a bathing accident in which her mother died and she almost drowned herself, Gilda has remained mentally at the level of a nine-year-old child. The 17-year-old lives in Vienna with her father Charli, who works as a singer in a wine tavern . Charli isolates his daughter from the outside world as far as possible and has employed Anna as a minder so that Gilda is not at home alone when he works.

On the occasion of her 18th birthday, Gilda is traveling to the sea with her grandmother. There she meets Philip by chance, the son of Charli's boss Gretl, with whom she falls in love. Back in Vienna, one evening Gilda secretly goes to the pub where her father works. There she meets Philip again, who takes her to his room and wants to sleep with her. When Charli comes home at night and can't find Gilda, he calls Anna, who tells him that Gilda has gone to the restaurant. There he finds Gilda sitting in a corner of Philip's room crying. He carries her out.

In the final scene, Charli and Gilda ride in a hot air balloon, which Charli detonates by opening a valve on a gas bottle.

background

The screenplay was written by Ulrike Schwarzenberger , the wife of director Xaver Schwarzenberger, based on Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto .

My beautiful daughter was shot in Vienna and Grado , Italy . It was first broadcast in Austria on ORF 2 on November 24, 2004. In Germany, Das Erste first showed the film on July 13, 2005.

Leander Lichti , who played Philip, was nominated for the 2005 Undine Award for Best Adolescent Actor in a TV Movie .

reception

The press praised the script of the film, which "with its sympathetic, plastic characters [stands out] from what is currently offered in TV films", as well as the leading actress Phillippa Galli , whose play " makes a significant contribution ] that the tragic story is so touching ”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ My beautiful daughter . In: programm.ard.de . Broadcasting Berlin-Brandenburg . Retrieved April 19, 2014.
  2. ↑ Hedwig Schuss: TV review: Predicate Schwarzenberger . In: The press . Die Presse Verlags-Gesellschaft mbH & Co KG. November 26, 2004. Retrieved April 18, 2014.