Natalie - terminus baby stroke

Movie
Original title	Natalie - terminus baby stroke
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1994
length	92 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Herrmann Zschoche
script	Christina Christoff , Marius Del Mestre
production	Christa Gerlach
music	Tamás Kahane
camera	Dieter Chill
cut	Ingo Scholz
occupation
Anne-Sophie Briest : Natalie Schneider Nina Hoger : Elke Schneider Udo Schenk : Peter Schneider Annekathrin Lange : Vanessa Schneider Volkert Kraeft : Georg Teuchert Falk-Willy Wild : Nico Habich Melanie Rühmann : Marion Tobias Nath : Max Barbara Kramer : Susanne Teuchert Oliver Korittke : Blende, the photographer Hans Zürn : Teacher Binner

Natalie - Endstation Babystrich is the title of a German television film that is about child prostitution .

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Natalie Schneider lives in a middle-class family in the Frankfurt suburb. Both parents have regular jobs and she attends a good high school herself . Nevertheless, she feels unhappy: Above all, her younger sister Vanessa, who suffers from asthma and therefore often has to go to hospital, takes all of her parents' attention. Natalie is therefore often brought up more strictly.

Natalie first finds consolation in her classmate Max, until she meets the charming Nico through her school friend Marion, not knowing that he is earning a living as a pimp .

Natalie finds herself in a dangerous milieu between school and baby line , her parents suspect nothing of it. Only when Georg Teuchert, a friend of the family, comes up with Natalie's double life, Natalie can escape the grain.

History of origin

The feature film was produced by TaunusFilm and first broadcast on November 23, 1994 in prime time on Sat.1 . The TV station pointed out that the film was "based on a real story". "It was particularly important to me to see my parents without prematurely blaming them," says director Herrmann Zschoche . "Everyone wanted only the best for Natalie - according to their standards of value."

Reviews

Jan Feddersen ( the daily newspaper ) strongly criticized the television film. The actors are incapable, the script was "scrubbed down by those responsible under severe hallucinations" and do not leave out any "flatness and roughness". The directorial work was so weightlessly linked to prejudices "like the Bild -Zeitung [...] to völkisch resentments." The Stuttgarter Zeitung expressed itself in a similar way , which saw the film as a work calculated "on the voyeur instincts of the audience". "Viewers who endured this entertainment slime to the end would have to go to the final round to get the Bambi for the 'zapping-resistant ideal goggle'." Michael Burucker ( Der Tagesspiegel ) only praised the performance of the supporting actors Volkert Kraeft and Melanie Rühmann .

Sequels

Natalie - Endstation Babystrich was broadcast at regular intervals on Sat.1. In addition, four sequels followed in which Anne-Sophie Briest slipped into the role of Natalie Schneider again:

• 1997: Natalie II - Hell after the baby stroke
• 1998: Natalie III - baby stroke online
• 2001: Natalie 4 - Life after the baby stroke
• 2003: Natalie 5 - Baby Stroke Eastern Bloc

Web links

• Natalie - Endstation Babystrich in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Natalie - end of the line baby dash at Fernsehserien.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ cf. Success came back with the private broadcasters . In: Horizont , June 9, 1995, No. 23, p. 77
2. ↑ cf. Fate for voyeurs . In: Der Tagesspiegel , November 23, 1994 (accessed via Wiso praxis )
3. ↑ cf. Wednesday 8.15pm Sat 1 - Babystrich terminus . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung , November 23, 1994 (accessed via Wiso praxis )
4. ↑ Jan Feddersen : Scrubbed down: "Endstadtion Babystrich" . In: the daily newspaper . November 23, 1994, p. 14 .
5. ↑ cf. From a critical point of view: terminus Babystrich . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung , November 25, 1994
6. ↑ cf. Michael Burucker: Zimmermanns also turned . In: Der Tagesspiegel , November 25, 1994 (accessed via Wiso praxis )