Silver wedding anniversary (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Silver wedding anniversary |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2006 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Matti Geschonneck |
| script | Daniel Nocke |
| production |
Oliver Berben for Moovie the art of entertainment on behalf of BR |
| music |
Marko Meister Robert Meister |
| camera |
Rudolf Blahacek Carl-Friedrich Koschnick |
| cut | Karola Mittelstädt |
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Silberhochzeit is a multiple award-winning German television film by Matti Geschonneck from 2006 . It is based on the short story of the same name by Elke Heidenreich .
The focus of the chamber play-like film is a couple who are celebrating their 25 completed years of marriage with six friends. In the course of the evening the celebration escalates and unpleasant truths come to light. The film is accompanied by Alma's reflections and explanations as the narrator from the background.
action
Ben and Alma plan to celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary with their six closest friends. Alma goes shopping for the planned dinner at a Munich market. She reflects on red roses, which she detests, but which she will inevitably get from her husband, Ben. In fact, when she returns to the apartment, he gives her 25 red roses for the past 25 years and 25 more for the next. Alma is pleased and puts the roses in the study.
The couple talk about the expected guests. In addition to the single Anita and the single Jonathan, the couple Heinz and Vivien as well as Leo and his new, unknown girlfriend Alexandra Weissenberg are invited. Alma learns that Ben and Alexandra have known each other for a vacation 30 years ago and that they had spent one night together. However, nothing happened between them. Alma questions Ben about the importance of this woman, especially when compared to her own importance to Ben after 25 years of marriage. She accuses him of remembering a night with Alexandra better than the many they both spent together.
The guests appear. First, the writer Jonathan arrives, who is immediately entertained by Ben with cognac and a cigar. Alma thinks about the evening ahead and continues preparing the meal. Next up are the insurance agent Heinz, from Alma's point of view her only real friend, and his younger partner Vivien, whom he has known for a year. Then Alma greets her “oldest friend” Anita, who is of the same age and immediately attracts Vivien with sharp-tongued taunts. Then comes Leo, a commercial law attorney, with his said new girlfriend, whom Ben doesn't seem to recognize. Anita gives the couple a valuable nude picture and Ben is visibly moved. Jonathan notices that he no longer has any reason to visit Anita, as the picture always drew him to her. Leo gives Alma and Ben lucky stones from Asia. Alma thanks them for the gifts and invites them to dinner.
While eating, Alexandra suddenly asks Ben if they have met before. Ben initially denied, but Alma intervened when Alexandra asked several times. She builds a bridge for Ben because he told her about that one night with Alexandra. Ben pretends the memory is slowly coming back. Jonathan in particular is interested in the story. Alexandra says that they both met in Australia in 1975, where both only had one night together, as they wanted to travel on the next day with different destinations. For Alexandra it was love at first sight and Ben was so taken with the young woman that he wanted to keep the night special. They talked together all night, but did not sleep together. They stayed in correspondence for a few years. The story that affects Alexandra and Ben makes the other guests happy because Ben refrained from having sex. Alma, on the other hand, is upset because she did not know anything about the correspondence that presumably ran before her time. When people keep asking for details, even though Ben and Alexandra are uncomfortable, Heinz begins to give a wedding anniversary speech. She is interrupted by the arrival of Ben's father. Ben explains to him that he is not wanted and wants to turn him away, but he wants to stay with the information that he is only visiting Alma. Apparently, Leo also sees no reason to evict Ben's father from the apartment, whereupon Ben reacts angrily and wants to leave as long as his father is in the apartment. At Alma's request, the father leaves again; she also refuses to accept his gift. When asked about his behavior, Ben tells that the father once left Ben's mother for a younger woman when she fell ill after a self-sacrificing life in old age. She died a short time later. Ben has never forgiven him for this and his friends initially agree with him. Anita’s remark that Heinz has also left his wife for the younger Vivien, heats up the somewhat chilled minds again.
The aggressive mood intensifies when Ben tells a vacation anecdote against Alma's will. After 24 years, he and Alma had returned to the place where they had spent their first vacation. It was then that they had met a ten-year-old boy whom they treated like a son. After the vacation they forgot him and now saw him again after all these years. They learned that he had named his two children after them. The fact that Ben tells this sentimentally makes Alma angry, since he hadn't thought about the boy in all these years. She announces to the guests that she will part with Ben. He's taken aback and feels exposed in front of his friends. There follows a vote among the friends. Alexandra is in favor of the two separating. Jonathan thinks similarly, as both have become too tight over the years. The inhibitions gradually fall and everyone gradually reveals what they think of the other. Jonathan is described by Anita as a drunk, unsuccessful and talented writer. He announces that Anita was having an affair with Ben's father. In the opinion of the friends, Vivien is only with Heinz for the money. She, in turn, thinks Heinz's friends are egoists, Ben even thinks his friends are a bunch of selfish assholes. When Heinz suddenly announces that Vivien has multiple sclerosis , he calms down the aggressive mood again. Vivien goes into the bathroom, crying, because her illness is none of the others' business.
The evening continues unpleasantly. After Jonathan had started looking for Ben's letters from Alexandra and found them, he now reads them aloud in a drunk state. Opinions about this behavior are divided among those present. Later Leo tries in vain to seduce Alma and Ben finds an understanding woman in Vivien. When Heinz wants to go and can't find Vivien, he looks for her. Finally he looks in the bathroom and surprises her and Ben while making love. Completely from the role, he then leaves the apartment without a word, past Alma, straight into the apartment. He ignores the taxi Alma ordered, as does Vivien's attempt to persuade him to stay. The other guests say goodbye. Ben and Alma stay behind, who now openly tell each other how they really see the other - she is a dissatisfied old woman, he a lying man.
Ben goes to sleep and Alma goes to Ben's father to pick up her present. The next day she thinks about her future while walking through Munich. For the first time she doesn't know where life is going to take her and she likes it. Maybe she'll start a new life - maybe even with Ben.
production
The film was shot between June 1 and July 6, 2005 in Berlin and in the Bavaria Atelier in Munich-Geiselgasteig. The film team proceeded chronologically, which main actor Matthias Habich described as advantageous.
Silberhochzeit had its world premiere on January 13, 2006 on the arte channel and ran on January 17, 2006 on Erste , where 5.83 million viewers (17.3 percent market share) saw the film; on arte it was 1.71 million.
criticism
“Top soul trip by ' Entnahm ' director Matti Geschonneck and ' Sommer 05 ' author Daniel Nocke; Conclusion: sovereign ensemble, witty dialogues. "
“Absolutely thrilling! A bad film about love and friendship, with razor-sharp dialogues and casually elegant images. "
Awards
Matti Geschonneck received the German Television Award for the silver wedding anniversary in 2006 in the category Best Director of TV Film . Gisela Schneeberger was awarded the German Television Prize in the category “Best Actress Supporting Role”. Iris Berben was also nominated for best leading actress. In 2006, Karola Mittelstädt received a nomination for the German Camera Prize in the category “Best Editing - TV Film”.
Ulrich Noethen received the Golden Camera 2006 for “Best German Actor” for his silver wedding anniversary , while Matti Geschonneck was nominated as a director in the “Best German TV Film” category.
Geschonneck won the Bavarian TV Prize in 2006 for directing Silberhochzeit . In 2006 the film was also nominated for the Adolf Grimme Prize in the “Fiction & Entertainment” category.
Web links
- Silver wedding in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Silver wedding at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Silver Wedding: Scandal on the evening of the celebration ( Memento of the original from March 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . stern.de, January 17, 2006
- ↑ See data on constantin-film.de ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ See cinema.de
- ^ "Silver Wedding" with Iris Berben , brigitte.de (accessed: November 7, 2009)
- ↑ See crew-united.de
