Rosamunde Pilcher: Stormy encounter

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Movie
Original title Stormy encounter
Country of production Germany , Austria
original language German
Publishing year 1993
length 87 minutes
Rod
Director Helmut Förnbacher
script Barbara Engelke
production Claus Beling ,
Michael Smeaton ,
Heidi Ulmke
music Richard Blackford
camera Axel de Roche
cut Ulrike Zimmermann
occupation

Stormy Encounter is a German - Austrian joint production by ZDF and ORF from 1993, directed by Helmut Förnbacher . The main roles are cast with Sophie von Kessel and Michael Lesch , leading roles with Rolf Hoppe , Horst Günter Marx , Heidelinde Weis , Karl Merkatz , Louise Martini and Horst Janson .

The screenplay by Barbara Engelke is based on the novel of the same name by Rosamunde Pilcher . It is the second film adaptation of a novel written by Rosamunde Pilcher and the first film adaptation by ZDF for the series "Herzkino-Films" .

action

Rebecca Bayliss, who has just moved, visits a London antique shop in search of chairs and meets the charming owner Joss Gardner. Back at her place of work, a bookstore, she finds a letter that is already three weeks old, from Otto Peddersen, and contains the message that Rebecca's mother Lisa is seriously ill. At the airport in Ibiza , she learns from Peddersen that her mother has had leukemia for a year , but did not want her to find out . When Rebecca talks about the death of her grandmother, who she never met, her mother says bitterly that nothing escaped her, the atmosphere that prevailed in the house could have overwhelmed you. Although the Boscarva estate in Cornwall was so beautiful, her mother hated it. Her father Grenville withdrew more and more to his studio and painted, and at some point she only wanted to leave it all behind.

Shortly before her mother dies, she makes Rebecca promise to go to Cornwall. So Rebecca goes to Porthkerris, which is associated with some difficulties. Quite surprisingly, she meets Joss Gardner again on the way. He tells her that he is restoring furniture on “Boscarva” and that that is why he is in the area. In a pub, she meets Eliot Bayliss, her cousin, without knowing who he is. Gardner clears them up. When she is on her way to “Boscarva”, she meets Eliot, who takes her with him in his car. Rebecca is given a friendly welcome on the estate. In addition to Eliot's mother Mollie, she also meets a distant relative, the young Andrea, who seems to be bored. Meeting her grandfather Grenville is instructive. He suggests that Molly, and especially Eliot, would hope to enjoy the inheritance soon.

After Rebecca had Joss invite her for coffee in his apartment, the two of them kiss. Shortly afterwards, Rebecca discovers the secretary that belonged to her mother and is already missing on the estate in an unfinished room in Joss' apartment . Rebecca doesn't know what to believe and is completely confused. She tells her grandfather that she wants to go back to her apartment in London first. Her grandfather gives her the key to his studio so that she can choose a picture and take it with her. Finally she comes across a portrait of the mysterious Sophia, which her grandfather has painted over and over again. However, so far only images appeared that showed her with her face turned away.

When Andrea was delivered to the manor in a pitiful state by Morris Petcomp that evening, Andrea said that Joss, with whom she had a date, had become intrusive and hit her when she tried to evade him. Petcomp then beats Joss with an iron bar outside a pub with Eliot's indirect consent, seriously injuring him. When Rebecca finds out about this, she immediately rushes to Joss, who also takes the opportunity to tell her what Andreas's claim and the secretary are really about. Rebecca was angry that he didn't want to go out to eat with her, so he threw her out of his apartment. He bought the secretary from a dealer who bought it from Eliot, who was up to his neck in debt.

When everyone is united on the estate, it becomes clear why there is only one picture that shows Sophia's face, she was the mother of Joss and the portrait reveals the great similarity between mother and son. Grenville always knew that Joss was his grandson, which is why he always held his protective hand over him. He tells his family that Sophia was the only woman he really loved, a very proud and unusual woman, but didn't want him to get a divorce because of her. Eliot reacts bitterly, turns away and says he was last seen. Molly runs after her son. Joss says that Rebecca should go to London with him, there they will pack their things and the day after tomorrow they will be back on “Boscarva”, and now she should finally say “it”. Whereupon they confess their love to each other.

production

Production notes

It is a production by Frankfurter Filmproduktion GmbH, the Second German Television (ZDF) and the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF).

Rosamunde Pilcher makes a cameo in the film . When Sophie von Kessel in her role as Rebecca Bayliss stands in front of the fictional Porthkerris Gallery in St Ives, she passes there.

Locations

Trelissick, mansion where the exterior shots were taken
Land's End, where several scenes take place
The port of Mevagissey, location of some port scenes

The film was shot in Ibiza and London . The B&B accommodation at the beginning of the film is The Anchorage, located in St Ives , Cornwall . Rebecca arrives at St Erth train station and stays at the Tregenna Castle Hotel, referred to in the film as the Castle Hotel. The “Boscarva” property is located on the western edge of Penzance and is called “Trereife”, where the interior photos were also taken. The outdoor shots took place on the Trelissick site (driveway and terrace). Rebecca's hike to “Boscarva” stretches across the landscape below Land's End near Najizal Bay. The final scene also takes place on Land's End, the western point of England with the dramatic cliffs of Cornwall. The scenes that take place in the harbor were filmed in the artist and fishing village of St Ives, which was named "Portkerris" in the film. St Ives Harbor is also home to the pub where Joss was beaten up, which is actually called The Sloop Inn. The path that leads Rebecca and Andrea to the fish market is in St Ives below the Chapel of St Ives Head overlooking Porthmeor Beach. The fish sales took place in St Ives on Smeaton's Pier. The harbor scenes with the Joss antique shop were filmed in Mevagissey . In the background you can see the Shark Angling Center and the “Wheel House” restaurant. When Eliot and Rebecca are in his vintage car, they are in Marazion on the West End with a view of St. Michael's Mount .

publication

Stormy Encounter was shown for the first time on October 30, 1993 in the ZDF program.
In Hungary, the film was released on Story TV on May 31, 2010.

Universum Film GmbH released the film on April 26, 2004 as part of their “Rosamunde Pilcher Collection” together with the film Wechselspiel der Liebe on DVD.

criticism

TV Spielfilm pointed with the thumb to the right, gave one of three possible points for tension and eroticism and drew the conclusion: "Trivial love and family banter".

The evaluation by the film service was not very flattering: “Extremely boring Schmonzette”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Rosamunde Pilcher: Stormy encounter see page pilcher-rosamunde.blogspot.com
  2. ↑ Stormy encounter / interplay of love Fig. DVD case (in the picture: Michael Lesch, Sophie von Kessel)
  3. ↑ Rosamunde Pilcher: Stormy encounter at tvspielfilm.de (including 15 film images). Retrieved August 5, 2019.
  4. ^ Rosamunde Pilcher: Stormy encounter. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed February 22, 2020 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used