Fateful years

This article is about the TV movie of 2011. See also: Sissi - Fateful Years of an Empress , Berlin - Schicksalsjahre a city or a big heart - Schicksalsjahre a German family .

Movie
Original title	Fateful years
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	2011
length	193 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12 (1st part) / 6 (2nd part).
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Director	Miguel Alexandre
script	Uwe-Karsten Heye Thomas Kirchner
production	teamWorx (for ZDF)
music	Wolfram de Marco
camera	Jörg Widmer
cut	Tobias Forth
occupation
Maria Furtwängler : Ursula Heye Pasquale Aleardi : Wolfgang Heye Mats Köhlert & Benjamin Trinks : Uwe Heye Dorka Gryllus : Norah Kellermann Rosel Zech : Martha Engler Günther Maria Halmer : Franz Engler Nicole Marischka : Hilde Wanja Mues : Hans Engler Petra Kelling : Aunt Anni Peter Prager : Doctor Weise Heikko Deutschmann : Heinrich Nolde Michael Gwisdek : Siggi Lenn Kudrjawizki : Vladimir Konsolow

Schicksalsjahre is a German television film two- part series on ZDF by Miguel Alexandre from 2011. The first part had its premiere on February 13, 2011 on ZDF. The basis for the script was the family history memories of Uwe-Karsten Heye with the title “Vom Glück only ein Schatten”.

action

The talented pianist Ursula and Wolfgang get to know each other in a cabaret. They fall in love, but Wolfgang is drafted during the war. Ursula and their two children move back to their parents in Gdansk. During his leave from the front, Wolfgang visited the family on the Baltic Sea in the summer of 1943, but it was to be their last meeting. Two years later, Ursula receives the news that Wolfgang was killed in action at the front.

During the years of reconstruction, Ursula has little opportunity to mourn. After fleeing from Danzig, she found work in Rostock and brought home what she needed for her family, later also for her parents. She puts her interests aside and fights unshakably to survive.

In the GDR, Ursula experiences repression against those who think differently politically - she cannot do anything with this understanding of socialism. She befriends the fun-loving Norah, who appears as a singer for the Soviet soldiers. The two women begin to dream of fleeing to the West. The escape succeeds and they begin to build a new life for themselves and the children. When Norah got an engagement at the Mainz Opera, however, there were more and more arguments. As a musician, Ursula feels rejected and mourns her great love. She realizes that it will never be the same again, during the happiest time of her life.

Reviews

“(TV) melodrama as a historical journey through three social systems that wants to show what a generation of women had to and has achieved, often fighting against prejudices and clichés in the men's world. A well-played, formally more conventional event movie, the atmosphere of which often seems unreal, which even some fade-ins of documentary film material does not compensate for. "

- Lexicon of international film

Web links

• Schicksalsjahre in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Fateful years at Fernsehserien.de
• Fateful years at ZDF

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Fateful Years in the Lexicon of International Films