Rosamunde Pilcher: The Promised Bride

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Episode of the series Rosamunde Pilcher
Original title The promised bride
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 FFP New Media GmbH
length 89 minutes
classification Episode 109 ( List )
First broadcast September 8, 2013 on ORF 2 , ZDF
Rod
Director Dieter Kehler
script Silke Morgenroth , Martin Wilke
production Heidi Ulmke ,
Michael Smeaton
music Richard Blackford
camera Jochen Radermacher
cut Veronika Zaplata-Lauretet
occupation

The Promised Bride is a German TV film by Dieter Kehler from 2013 . The ZDF Sunday film starting in the “ Herzkino ” category is the 109th episode in the Rosamunde Pilcher film series based on the author's short story “A Matter of Pride” . Collien Ulmen-Fernandes and Jochen Schropp are cast in the leading roles, Denise Zich , Nele Kiper and Peer Jäger in supporting roles.

ZDF wrote about the Rosamunde Pilcher series that the films based on the author's works would tell “stories full of love, romance and passion - interspersed with dramatic strokes of fate, intrigues and machinations”. "But one thing [be] certain: Despite all the twists and turns - you can [be] relying on the happy ending on the Cornish coast!"

action

The five-star hotel "The Dolphin-Hotel", which is in a magnificent location in Cornwall , has difficulties. The hotel, which has so far been very popular with honeymooners in particular, is increasingly being booked less. Even extensive investments do not change that. The predominantly English guests have reoriented themselves and prefer to spend their honeymoon in the exotic climes of the Maldives . Even Nell Christie, the wife of current owner Andrew Christie, is leaving her husband to run a hotel that has more hours of sunshine.

This gives Christie the idea to offer the services of his hotel on the Indian market. However, it would take a lie to get tour operator Nigel Hayes to market the hotel accordingly in India. Andrew Christie claims to be married to an Indian woman, which shows him to be an expert on oriental guests. Christie Rajani can win Sharma for his game, who now appears as his wife if necessary. However, the young woman, an art history student who is currently writing her doctoral thesis and who works as a maid in the hotel during the semester break, initially outraged his request. Only her colleague Keira Henderson was able to persuade her to play the game to save her jobs. Andrew and Rajani play the couple so perfectly that they actually grow closer, a whole new experience for Rajani, who has long been engaged to a distant cousin. Although she is modern and self-determined in her professional life, this does not apply to her love life, which has not yet taken place. Since romantic love for Rajani is actually a western construct that often fails in her eyes, she has never questioned the choice made by her family so far.

When Rajani's father Murali learns of his daughter's game, he does everything in his power to get Rajani's Indian fiancé Tarun Manohar Prakash to Cornwall. But Andrew's wife Nell also turns up surprisingly to continue their marriage. She wisely keeps to herself that she overestimated herself when it comes to her own abilities and that the offer in the Maldives was only valid in cooperation with her husband. However, Andrew has long since made his choice and confesses his love to Rajani. When the Indian woman wants to talk to her father, Nell Christie tells her that she is expecting a child and that Rajani does not want to take a child's father away. That works, Rajani withdraws. Andrew doesn't know why Rajani suddenly backs down and gives up. Rajani's friend Keira finds out by chance that Missis Christie is not pregnant at all and informs Andrew. He swings on his motorcycle to prevent the marriage between Rajani and her fiancé that is taking place. Although he is too late, everything falls into place, because Rajani has not brought himself to say yes to Tarun.

A year later: A big wedding celebration according to Indian custom is coming up. This time Rajani wears the traditional red dress of a happy bride. Tarun has come to the party with Keira and, looking in their direction, says that Cornwall has many beautiful daughters, maybe he'll find a bride here after all.

production

Filming, production notes

Brooks in Boconnoc Township , one of the locations in the film
Caerhays Castle from the southeast, another location

The Promised Bride was filmed on locations across Cornwall from May 29th to June 26th 2013 . The scenes with which the film opens, as well as the scenes at the end of the film, were filmed in Holywell Bay in Newquay . A quick glance is taken at Tinside Pool in Plymouth . Boconnoc in the municipality of Cornwall with the "Boconnoc House" is the hotel. The drive to Lord Ebsworth's estate leads to Caerhays Castle . The house that Rajani lives with her friend and work colleague Keira is above Treyarnon Bay. The tea ceremony staged for the photographer in the pavilion was created in Truro in the Victoria Garden. The beach scenes were filmed at the beach café "The Watering Hole" in Perranporth. When Andrew is looking for a suitable Indian wife, his way to Newquay leads him to “The Maharajah Indian Restaurant” on Cliff Road, where other street scenes were filmed, for example in front of the “Great Western Hotel”. The registry office is located in Coinage Hall, which is on Boscawen Street in Truro. Andrew and Nell have an argument near Lewinnick Lodge in Newquay on the Penture Peninsula. The Headland Hotel appears briefly in the background.

The production was created under the working title The Indian Bride by FFP New Media GmbH. The editor responsible for ZDF was Andrea Klingenschmitt. Elvira Bolz was in charge of production and Beate Balser was in charge of production.

background

Image by Walter Langley

Since Rajani Sharma, who studies art history, would like to see an original painting by the late impressionist painter and co-founder of the Newlyn School Walter Langley (1852–1922), Andrew Christie, out of gratitude for her help, seeks out the young woman Lord Elsworth, with his son he once went to school and who owns several pictures by the painter, and enables her to take a closer look at his work "Touch Of A Vanished Moment", which is of particular interest to her.

publication

The film was first broadcast on television in Germany and Austria on September 8, 2013. Studio Leonine gave it together with the Pilcher films The Woman on the Cliff (Film 107), Old Hearts Don't Rust (Film 110), Flew Too High (Film 111), Occupied Hearts (Film 112) and Evita's Vengeance (Film 113 ) within the "Rosamunde Pilcher Collection XVI - Love is Everything" on June 6, 2014 on DVD. The film is also available on DVD within the Rosamunde Pilcher Collection together with the film Die Frau auf der Klippe .

reception

Audience rating

When it was first broadcast on ZDF, the film was watched by 5.96 million viewers. The market share was 17.8 percent.

criticism

The critics of the TV magazine TV Spielfilm pointed their thumbs to the side and said, slightly sarcastically: "A new boost for Cornwall tourism."

Tilmann P. Gangloff rated the film on tittelbach.tv and gave it 3.5 out of 6 possible stars. In summary, the critic stated: Fresh cell treatment for Rosamunde Pilcher. Romantic comedy flair instead of drowsy heart-pain plots is offered by 'The Promised Bride'. The figurehead for the resistance against the cliché of the Sunday film in 'Second' is the leading actress Collien Ulmen-Fernandes. Despite her image: she is really good in the role of the daughter of an Indian banker who grew up in England. All the other 'young' faces also bring momentum to the well thought-out romance with a funny note. Oldie Peer Jäger provides the driest jokes. Gangloff said that the so-called ZDF 'Herzkino' is aimed “primarily at viewers in their prime” and is “usually inedible if the stories are based on motifs by Rosamunde Pilcher”. 'The Promised Bride' shows "that there is another way: the film [is] amazingly entertaining". [...] The dialogues are “punchy and the actors without exception credible; Jochen Schropp in particular proves that he is actually much too good to waste his working time as a Vox moderator [...] ". Denise Zich embodies the wife "convincingly as a cunning bitch" and Nele Kiper uses her role as best friend "to set striking accents". The only conjecture is the extremely lifeless and loveless sounding Pilcher plastic music by Richard Blackford.

The film service dismissed the film with the words: “Trivial (TV) love story as a not very original 'Pretty Woman' variation, in which once again beautiful people in front of a beautiful backdrop are supposed to make them believe that they are meant for each other. - From 14. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rosamunde Pilcher - Great feelings in front of a dreamlike backdrop, see page zdf.de
  2. ↑ Rosamunde Pilcher - The Promised Bride, TV movie (series), 2013 | Crew United
  3. ↑ Rosamunde Pilcher. For the promised bride see page rosamundepilcherblog.wordpress.com
  4. ↑ Katrin Pribyl: Poor Pilcher Country! In: Stuttgarter Nachrichten , August 13, 2014. Retrieved May 22, 2020.
  5. ↑ Love is everything Fig. DVD case ZDF video
  6. ↑ The woman on the cliff / The promised bride Fig. DVD case of the ZDF Herzkino
  7. ↑ Rosamunde Pilcher: The promised bride short review on the page tvspielfilm.de (including 47 film images).
    Retrieved May 22, 2020.
  8. ^ Tilmann P. Gangloff : TV movie "Rosamunde Pilcher - The Promised Bride". Collien Ulmen-Fernandes, Schropp, Denise Zich, Nele Kiper - Pilcher reloaded !!! see page tittelbach.tv. Retrieved May 22, 2020.
  9. ↑ Rosamunde Pilcher: The promised bride. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed May 22, 2020 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used