Mona is having a baby

Movie
Original title	Mona is having a baby
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	2014
length	90 minutes
Rod
Director	Ben Verbong
script	Sarah Schnier
production	Alicia Remirez
music	Andy Grudge
camera	Mathias Neumann
cut	Knut Hake
occupation
Stephanie Amarell : Mona Lessing Barbara Auer : Judith Lessing Dominic Raacke : Stefan Lessing Johannes Gäde : Ben Lessing Hannah Valentin : Cosima Lessing Dominique Horwitz : Max Rosenthal Judith Rosmair : Rebekka Rosenthal Imogen Kogge : Director Schmelcher Marija Mauer : Hannah Tornow Nicole Mercedes Müller : Pauline Luisa Strunk : Jessica Schmidt Enno Trebs : Roman Seifert Nadine Wrietz : Cordula Böhm Tom Keune : Dr. Brueckner Martina Ysker : Jump coach Tina

Mona is having a baby is a feature film by the Dutch director Ben Verbong . The writer wrote Sarah Schnier .

action

14-year-old Mona is the youngest of Judith and Stefan Lessing's three children. When she confesses to her parents that she is four months pregnant, it adds to the stress in their troubled marriage. Mona's father Stefan, a gynecologist who volunteers sex education at Mona's school , is initially overwhelmed with his daughter's pregnancy.

After an argument between the parents, Mona leaves her parents' home and moves in with 17-year-old Roman, the child's father. He explains to her that he cannot take care of her and the child. When she finds out two months later that Roman has had a girlfriend the whole time they lived together, she packs her things and leaves. After spending a night on the street, Mona is asked by her father to come back home, where the family has since grown closer.

background

Mona is getting a baby was filmed in July and August 2013 in Berlin , Potsdam , Elstal , Kleinmachnow and Werder . The first broadcast on April 4, 2014 on Das Erste saw 4.49 million viewers, which corresponds to a market share of 15.3 percent.

reception

The world judges Mona to have a baby as "overall pleasantly agile and lively" and praises leading actress Stephanie Amarell in particular : "It is fascinating to look after the weather lights [sic!] That keep moving across her face."

The star attests to the film that it tells "with a lot of feeling about a lovable family".

The Augsburger Allgemeine judges: "A worth seeing, well-played and, despite the humorous interludes, thoroughly thoughtful comedy about growing up overnight and the realization that parents are only human."

The film service sums it up: “With a lot of fanfare, a (television) drama staged as a major problem-solving scenario, which only addresses the problems raised in the context of light entertainment. The actors alone prevent the film from slipping into shallow, dismayed entertainment. "

Web links

• Mona having a baby in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Mona is having a baby in the online film database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ David Grzeschik: Primetime check: Friday, April 4, 2014 . In : quotemeter.de . Oddsmeter GmbH. April 5, 2014. Retrieved April 5, 2014.
2. ↑ Elmar Krekeler: How Mona got a child . In: The world . Axel Springer AG . April 4, 2014. Retrieved April 5, 2014.
3. ↑ Mona is getting a baby ( Memento from April 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ Tilmann P. Gangloff: "Mona is getting a baby": too serious to be really funny . In: Augsburger Allgemeine . Media group press print . April 4, 2014. Retrieved April 5, 2014.
5. ↑ Mona is having a baby. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed February 22, 2020 .