Keen on life
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Keen on life |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2000 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Christine Kabisch |
| script | Christine Kabisch, Neithardt Riedel |
| music |
Jens Langbein , Robert Schulte-Hemming |
| camera | Jürgen Herrmann |
| cut | Elke Herbener |
| occupation | |
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Sharp on Life is a German TV film with Senta Berger from 2000. When it was first broadcast, it gave ARD a rating hit.
action
After 30 years of marriage, 55-year-old Solveigh Kronberg divorced her husband Rudolph. Their son David has long since grown up and is an aspiring pianist. In order to earn a living, Solveigh finally takes a job as a waitress in a Frankfurt bistro. Actually, she is happy with her life. Now and then she still has doubts as to whether that was all.
One day, the photographer Mike Bergengruen and finally Magnus Nadolny, the head of an advertising agency, notice the still attractive Solveigh. Both are looking for a mature woman with charisma for the new advertising campaign of an Italian fashion brand. After being convinced by Magnus and his lucrative offer, which she initially thought was a joke, she immediately made a career as a photo model.
One photo session follows the other while her face adorns numerous front pages. She also embarks on an affair with Magnus, who, to the displeasure of his actual partner, the stylist Saskia, is fascinated by Solveigh's timeless charm. But Solveigh soon realizes that she does not belong in the pseudo-world of the model business and has found a more suitable life partner in older Mike.
background
The shooting for Scharf auf Leben took place from mid-May to the end of June 2000 in Frankfurt am Main and in a bistro in Bad Homburg vd Höhe . On December 13, 2000, the film was shown for the first time by ARD on television. It gave the station the hit of the day with more than seven million viewers (market share: 22.7%).
Reviews
The lexicon of international films describes Scharf auf Leben as a “TV film about a strong woman who shows that life can be reinvented and reinvented over and over again”. “A great Senta Berger, a clever script and many ironic undertones make the film a real pleasure,” said Cinema . In short, it is a "[k] lasse film about a woman with class". According to Prisma , it is thanks to the “charm [e] of the indestructible Senta Berger” that “the story is quite amusing”.
Web links
- Sharp on life in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Press report and photos on ulrich-pleitgen.de
- Pictures of the film on cinema.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. shortnews.de
- ↑ Keen on life. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ cf. cinema.de
- ↑ cf. prisma.de