Happy Mother (2006)

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Movie
Original title Mother's happiness
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2006
length 90 minutes
Rod
Director Christian Goerlitz
script Christian Görlitz
Edeltraud Rabitzer
production Susanne Freyer
music Stefan Will
Timo Blunck
camera Tomas Erhart
cut Klaus Dudenhöfer
occupation

Mutterglück is a drama and a love film by director Christian Görlitz , who also wrote the screenplay together with Edeltraud Rabitzer , from 2006. Jürgen Vogel plays the leading role as the young farmer Joachim Tietze, who is initially firmly convinced that from the Kosovo native Ana to have found the love of his life.

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The young farmer Joachim Tietze finds the love of his life in Ana, who comes from the former Yugoslavia . Together with their little son Niklas, the three live happily on his secluded farm in the immediate vicinity of Hamburg.

When Joachim and Ana get married and Ana becomes pregnant again shortly afterwards, everything seems to be going perfectly at first. Joachim knows that a lot of suffering happened to Ana in her youth (her first husband and daughter were killed in a fire), but he is confident that he can offer his great love and her son a good life.

The film takes a dramatic turn, however, when Ana's son drowns while fishing in the lake behind the farm estate. Ana and Joachim initially fell into deep grief, but this phase also seems to have been overcome when Ana and Joachim gain new courage to face life.

Suddenly, however, some features appear in Ana's past that seem a little illogical and strange to Joachim: For example, a hitherto unknown man suddenly appears, who firmly and credibly claims to Joachim, the birth father of Anas' daughter who died in the fire to be. And not only that: The stranger can even show Joachim that he is Ana's rightful husband. Confronted by Joachim about this, Ana admits that she made up the story of the fire to protect her own life. Thereupon Joachim forgives her story of lies, but he still has doubts about her general credibility.

A short time after Ana's questionable past seems to be forgotten, Ana's rightful husband succeeds again in sparking an argument between the two: He claims that the death of Ana's daughter and even the death of little Niklas was not a misfortune, but the one both were personally killed by Ana. Joachim does not initially believe these statements; However, when the first rumors arise in the village and a village policeman begins to investigate Ana, the first doubts also grow in Joachim.

By order of the prosecutor's office , a done exhumation of the two children's bodies. From this point on, Ana feels harassed from all sides and even reacts to Joachim's attempts to calm her down with panic and resistance. When Joachim sought psychiatric help and tried to find out what could be happening in Ana with professional help and specialist literature, the situation escalated: From this point on, Ana no longer trusts him at all.

Basically far too late, Joachim realizes that Ana, since living in Yugoslavia, has been carrying dark secrets with her and only has vengeance in mind.

Production notes

Susanne Freyer produced for the new German film company in coproduction with Akzente Film & Fernsehproduktions GmbH on behalf of NDR . The film was shot in Hamburg and Lüneburg .

Release dates and different film titles

Mutterglück was shown for the first time on September 28, 2005 at the Hamburg Film Festival . It was first broadcast on German television on October 18, 2006 on ARD . In Brazil the film was broadcast under the title Um Estranho com Meu Filho .

Reviews

Rainer Tittelbach is of the opinion that Mutterglück is a well-acted drama, but the journalist and author notes that there is “[z] u more than explaining the heroine's behavior afterwards and in a somewhat artificial form [ ...] the politics in Mutterglück does not [serve]. "

TV Spielfilm sums up the fact that the production is a "[s] chmerzliche [n] film about guilt and atonement, [which] [is] told with subtle tension". The conclusion of the program magazine is: "Dark psychogram of a traumatized person".

The conclusion of Kino.de is: "The war in the Balkans forms the background to this psychodrama in which Christian Görlitz lets his main actor Jürgen Vogel explore the depths of a mother's soul".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Happy Mother in the Lexicon of International FilmsTemplate: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used
  2. ↑ Mutterglück (TV Movie 2006) - Release Info - IMDb. In: imdb.com. Retrieved November 6, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Mutterglück - review of the film - Tittelbach.tv. In: tittelbach.tv. Retrieved November 6, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Mutterglück - film review - film - TV SPIELFILM. In: tvspielfilm.de. Retrieved November 6, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Mutterglück Film (2005) · Trailer · Criticism · KINO.de. In: kino.de. Retrieved November 6, 2015 .