Without you (2014, Baxmeyer)
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| Original title | Without you |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2014 |
| length | 87 minutes |
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| Director | Florian Baxmeyer |
| script | Ulli Stephan |
| production | Anette Kaufmann |
| music | Enjott Schneider |
| camera | Arthur W. Ahrweiler |
| cut | Friederike Weymar |
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Without you is a German television film by Florian Baxmeyer from 2014 , which starred with Stefanie Stappenbeck and Andreas Pietschmann and in leading roles with Oliver Mommsen , Elmira Rafizadeh , Renate Krößner , Jan Niklas Berg , David C. Bunners , Katja Danowski and Stephan Grossmann is busy.
Martina and Ralf are a very happy couple. When Ralf does not return from a tour with the sailing boat, Martina refuses to believe that he is dead. She begins to research and look for him.
action
Martina and Ralf are still as happy as they were on the first day in their relationship, even after years. Together they run a fine restaurant in Cologne that is doing well. Their vacation takes the couple to the French Atlantic coast, where they enjoy time together in a remote domicile. When they are exchanging tenderness in a bay on the beach, a photographer appears and takes pictures. Ralf chases him away in a way that Martina had never seen before. When she wakes up a little later on the next morning, Ralf is already on the boat, as he told her on a note he left behind. He's bringing fresh fish for lunch, he lets them know. When he is not back either at noon or later that day, Martina becomes increasingly restless. After calling in the police, the sailing boat is found, but Ralf has disappeared. The French police are convinced that the sail hit him in the head, whereupon he fell into the sea. For the officials it looks like a sailing accident. Martina is now desperately looking for Ralf alone because she is convinced that he is still alive. She is sure that she would feel if Ralf was no longer alive.
Since Martina's search is unsuccessful, she returns to Cologne. In Ralf's files she comes across inconsistencies as well as mysterious short messages from a certain Hülya. Ralf had never mentioned this name to her. Martina's childhood friend Johannes tries to help her, but she can't get rid of the uncomfortable feeling that he hopes to finally get together with her. That is why she is extremely reluctant to respond to his offers of help. Martina's mother also comes to support her in the restaurant, as does her brother Andreas. Since Martina keeps having dreams that feel so real, as if they were true and in which Ralf is with her again, she decides to follow a lead that leads her to a small Breton village. That mysterious Hülya should live there. In fact, Martina also finds the young woman, but she flees from her almost in panic.
It turns out that Hülya is Ralf's sister. She suffers from leukemia and dies in the hospital before she can answer a few more questions to Martina. Hülya's husband does not want to talk to Martina either, as he is of the opinion that the excitement that his wife had to go through because of her appearance would have led to her then quick death. Ultimately, Ralf shows up again, but disappears just as quickly after a night of love. That happens one more time. This time Martina receives important answers. Ralf admits to having faked his death, because he and his sister Hülya had once got involved with the Mafia at a time when they had not yet existed in his life. After they had decided to end this chapter, they were in great danger as the Mafia would not let anyone out of their clutches. When the photographer appeared on the French coast whom he had scared off, he knew that he would be found. To protect her, he then faked his death, otherwise she would have been in danger. He asks her to stop following him. Again he has disappeared when Martina wakes up.
On the Atlantic coast, where Martina was drawn in a certain hope, Ralf reappears. When Martina wakes up on the beach after falling asleep in Ralf's arms, she is alone. When she looks around in panic, he emerges from the sea and waves to her. Relieved and happy, she falls into his arms and says no matter where he goes, she will go with him.
production
Filming, background
Without you was filmed from May 7th to June 12th 2013 in Cologne and the surrounding area, Monschau and Limburg an der Lahn . The film was produced by ODEON TV and Novafilm Fernsehproduktion GmbH.
Stefanie Stappenbeck, who worked out the role with a female coach and analyzed each scene for Martina's feelings, explained: “To better understand their family backgrounds, we made a figure constellation, corresponding to a therapeutic family constellation.” She added: “You can feel behind the facade one the family constraints in which Martina is. The search for the beloved becomes a journey to oneself. A possibility to free yourself from your fears ”.
reception
Publication, audience ratings
When it was first broadcast on January 2, 2014 in the ARD Das Erste program , the film had 5.53 million viewers. The market share was 16.2 percent. The first time it was repeated, 4.56 million viewers tuned in, corresponding to a market share of 13.6 percent.
criticism
The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm pointed their thumbs down, gave one of three possible points for action, tension and eroticism and criticized: “Homely and clumsy Florian Baxmeyer [...] mimics every thriller cliché, no matter how worn out, and also his tension are well known and worn out. ”Conclusion:“ A crude staged romantic thriller ”.
Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv saw things very differently, gave the film four out of six possible stars and said: “An extraordinary project for a Degeto film. As a viewer, you enter the confusion of an emotionally damaged figure. Dramaturgical flaws, sensual staging, outstanding Stappenbeck. ”The critic went on to say that Baxmeyer treaded“ special paths from the start ”. The Bretagne pictures offer “intoxicating scenarios, beguiling optics. But also the essence of the narrated ”goes“ in the narrative - beautiful (and) mysterious ”works“ the entire exposition ”. ... "The psycho-dynamics and their sensual presentation" are "coherent". The same applies to the cast. Stappenbeck, “who demanded a lot from the role”, was “perfect and Renate Krößner, who you see far too seldom on television”, added “the ideal mother”. [...] "For a Thursday film" is "Without you" "extraordinary". [...] “Dramaturgically” let “Ulli Stephan drag the reins a bit. The film does not pursue a principle overriding the action level ”. As a viewer, you go "into the confusion of an emotionally damaged figure". Hopefully, "that this interesting aesthetic attempt by Degeto, especially the fantastic moments in which the soul turns outward and it is presented in real game form, will not irritate the audience too much".
Susanne Haverkamp gave the film four out of six possible stars and wrote in the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung about a “mysterious thriller” that “made you feel uncomfortable right from the start”. The director knows how to “create a mysterious, threatening atmosphere throughout the film. Noise, blurring, close-ups and silhouettes "are used well, dream and reality" blur "again and again". Also “thanks to Stefanie Stappenbeck in the role as friend Tina, who doesn't believe in Ralf's death and constantly vacillates between rational considerations and delusional ideas”. “A disadvantage” is that “the film is told very slowly, sometimes even lengthy”. "A little more speed and dynamism would have done well to really stay with it until the end."
Ulrich Schilling-Strack dealt with the film on the online portal Der Westen and said that the way the protagonist looked for her partner was also “well done”, but “left something to be desired”. The critic suspected that the creators had apparently started pondering when looking at the almost finished work and had believed that “something” had to be “still attached” and would then have “ruined a project that had been successful up to then with a silly ending”. That was "a shame", because up to this point "this Thursday film had claimed one of the better places in the history of a relevant production company". The story of Martina, "whose partner disappears without a trace on a holiday in Brittany", is "well done". Stefanie Stappenbeck played the restaurant owner “with an outstanding presence” and conveyed to us “the torments of a young woman who does not want to come to terms with the loss of a loved one”. One is drawn “deeper and deeper” into a drama that in its best moments is reminiscent of great classics. In general, the cast is "excellent", including the "great Renate Krößner as Martina's mother or Oliver Mommsen as Johannes' childhood friend, raise the highest hopes for an appropriate finale - well, and then it goes completely wrong". Schilling-Strack felt angry about the “messed up final chord”, which couldn't have been “much flatter”. He recommended the creators to come up with a new ending.
Web links
- Without you in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Without you at crew united
- Without you at Fernsehserien.de
- Without you see page programm.ard.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Without you, TV film, 2013, ARD, Degeto, romance, thriller, Germany, France | Crew United
- ^ A b Rainer Tittelbach : TV film "Without you". Stappenbeck, Pietschmann, Mommsen, Baxmeyer. A lover sees ghosts see page tittelbach.tv. December 6, 2013. Accessed August 30, 2020.
- ↑ Without you short review on the page tvspielfilm.de (including 10 film images). Accessed August 30, 2020.
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↑ Susanne Haverkamp: Mysterious ARD thriller. Already seen: “Without you”
In: Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung . January 2, 2014. Accessed August 30, 2020. -
↑ Ulrich Schilling-Strack: ARD drama “Without you” - a film succeeded, the end screwed up
In: The West . January 2, 2014. Accessed August 30, 2020.