Human mother
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Human mother |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2003 |
| length | 88 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Florian Gärtner |
| script | Florian Gärtner, Sabine Holtgreve |
| production | Christian Ganderath |
| music | Mark Polscher |
| camera | Nathalie Wiedemann |
| cut |
Claudia Wolscht , Matthias Kehr |
| occupation | |
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Mensch Mutter is a German television film by director Florian Gärtner from 2003. The main roles are played by Suzanne von Borsody and Rosemarie Fendel , who received the DIVA Award in 2005 for their portrayal of the mother-daughter relationship in the film . The leading roles are occupied by Jan Gregor Kremp , André Kaminski , Tina Ruland , Stefan Jürgens and Horst-Günter Marx .
action
Verena Kröger says goodbye to her son Mike on New Year's Eve and then celebrates the New Year with her friend Renate. A phone call that reached her and her brother Rolf that her mother was in hospital because of a stroke doesn't get the new year off to a good start. Since Rolf has little space due to his family situation, it is certain that Vreni will take in her mother Hilde for a certain time, especially since that is also the old lady's wish.
Hilde Teichmann, who has a very dominant nature, shows little understanding that Vreni and her husband Manfred, a successful lawyer, have separated, although Manfred has left Verena because of a younger woman. Vreni, like her friend Renate, works as an editor in a publishing house. When the head of the children's book department there is vacant, she faces competition from the younger Dana Kosswitz, who works in marketing. Dr. Geller, both superiors, informs the women that he thinks they are both capable of holding this position. Together they should now develop a concept that they should present during the children's book days taking place in Augsburg in two weeks.
In the house across from Verena Kröger's apartment, Arno Schuster lives with his mother, who is sitting in a wheelchair, who makes life quite difficult for him and who also suffers from paranoid schizophrenia . When the old lady dies, Hilde Teichmann suspects Arno Schuster that her son has something to do with his mother's death. Ms. Schuster died of sudden heart failure.
When the presentation on the children's book days threatens to fail due to Dana Kosswitz's fault, Verena has a saving idea that leads to success. Dana shows herself to be a fair loser. However, Verena asks for time to think about the new position now offered to her, as her mother cannot return to her own apartment after a renewed attack of weakness and a solution has to be found first. Verena assures her mother that if she wants to stay with her, she will forego the new post. At the birthday party of Hilde Teichmann there is an ugly scene, which is also due to the fact that Hilde invited Manfred Kröger on behalf of Vreni. After Verena has locked herself out, she seeks refuge with Arno Schuster, who has sold his house and is about to go to Nashville . He assures Verena that she is a wonderful woman.
After the celebration is over, there is a big discussion between mother and daughter. Verena tells her mother that her whole life tried to be like her. She is so beautiful, so great, so funny, so witty. Even after moving out, she kept catching herself thinking that she, her mother, would have done it differently, better. She married the man she, her mother, thought was great, and when it came to the separation, it took her forever to tell her that. It had crossed her mind, if she couldn't hold this great man, what would she, her mother, think of her? You never wanted to disappoint them. She kept thinking, if she, her mother, didn't love her, who should love her? The pronunciation clears up a lot between mother and daughter. Vreni is also happy to fulfill her mother's wish to complete a flight with her brother, who is a flight instructor, which is good for all three. A little later Hilde falls down again when Vreni helps her up, she says she is freezing. Vreni brews her hot tea in the kitchen, with fear for her mother written on her face. After Hilde has had a sip, she says it's doing really well. At the same moment the cup slips away from her, it is dead.
After the funeral, Verena wants to rearrange her life, she tells her boss and goes to Nashville.
production
Production notes, filming
The shooting of the film, produced by the production company Colonia Media for Degeto Film and Bayerischer Rundfunk , took place from March 11th to April 11th, 2003. The shooting took place in and around Munich .
publication
The film premiered on September 25, 2003 at the Hamburg Film Festival . It was broadcast for the first time on October 20, 2004 in the ARD Das Erste program.
reception
Audience rating
When it was first broadcast, the film reached 5.63 million viewers and its market share was 17.9 percent.
criticism
Kino.de said that the mother / daughter drama hit "the right note" and captivates with its two main actresses. The cast with “the beguiling Rosemarie Fendel and the multi-faceted Suzanne von Borsody, who is known to be united in real life as mother and daughter,” proves to be a “stroke of genius”. “The whole range of feelings that resonate in the difficult mother / daughter relationship are filled out by the two down to the finest nuances. It's also amazing how the comparatively young director Florian Gärtner consistently hits the right note, for example in the daughter's fear of contact with her mother. "
Also prism referred to the mother-daughter team in the movie and in real life, and found: "With their services drive them tears to his eyes. Strong! "
TV Spielfilm gave one of three possible points for humor and suspense, and two for claim, and showed a thumbs up. Conclusion: "Touchingly told, played intensely," whereby the highlight of the film is that Rosemarie Fendel and Suzanne von Borsody are mother and daughter in real life.
Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv wrote that the two actresses from Borsody / Fendel “could hardly have made out” “similarities” between their pair of roles, since the real women “both see themselves as very dominant personalities”, while in “Mensch Mother "only the old lady wears her pants". Tittelbach found this to be a “quiet, highly sensitive, touching film that never drifted into sentimentality. The right thing for reflective winter days ”and gave four out of six possible stars. who never drifted into the maudlin The young author and director Florian Gärtner developed the film plot "'realistic and authentic down to the last detail'". Dissolved into "long, quiet scenes in which you can almost feel the heartbeat of the actors", says von Borsody, the film "manages without any dramatically positioned conflict material".
On the Filmfest Hamburg page it was to be read: “That one can also find refreshingly funny sides to the topic of mothers and daughters” shows “this comedy in which Suzanne von Borsody and Rosemarie Fendel (also daughter and mother in real life) have their weakness for enigmatic humor free rein ”. With the film, director Florian Gärtner "succeeded in taking a lovingly ironic look at two generations of women and at the burden and strength of family structures: right in the middle of life!"
Web links
- Human mother in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Human mother full film see page 1.wdr.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Human mother see page filmportal.de. Retrieved May 23, 2019.
- ↑ a b human mother see page filmfesthamburg.de. Retrieved May 23, 2019.
- ^ A b c Rainer Tittelbach: TV film "Human Mother". Rosemarie Fendel and Suzanne von Borsody play mother and daughter see page tittelbach.tv. Retrieved May 23, 2019.
- ^ Human mother at Kino.de (including 7 film images). Retrieved April 23, 2014.
- ↑ Tragic comedy Human Mother see page prisma.de. Retrieved May 23, 2019.
- ↑ Human mother see page tvspielfilm.de (including 16 film images). Retrieved May 23, 2019.