The way you are
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The way you are |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2012 |
| length | 90 minutes |
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| Director | Wolfgang Murnberger |
| script | Uli Brée |
| music | Stefan Bernheimer |
| camera | Enzo Brandner |
| cut | Ilse Buchelt |
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Just like you are is an Austrian television film from 2012. Directed by Wolfgang Murnberger , the costumes were made by Martina List . The mask was directed by Christine Krebs , the tone by Heinz Ebner .
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The judge Helene Offer is retiring and is solemnly bid farewell by her college. At the party she gets drunk with champagne and when she drives home in the car, she crashes into a car pulling up. The driver is injured, his daughter Michelina - a girl with Down syndrome - remains uninjured. The father has to go to the hospital and is in a coma. Ms. Offer's alcohol test shows 0.9 per mille: she is good friends with her lawyer, and he explains the seriousness of the situation to her, especially since the incident is in the newspaper. The lawyer advises her to take care of Lina, which she initially refuses.
Ms. Offer visits the sun village with the press, the facility where Lina lives and works. She attends a dance rehearsal and clarifies formalities. The manager of the sunny village hands Lina over to Ms. Offer to look after her. Lina befriends her immediately. When she wants to go to a pizzeria with her , Ms. Offer refuses to go out. Only when Lina lets out a scream does she agree.
Ms. Offer is surprised that Lina is taking the subway . Ms. Offer is clumsy when it comes to buying tickets, but Lina knows her way around. Lina cheers up another child on the subway and asks questions about Down syndrome over pizza. After dinner, Lina wants to go to the cinema, which Ms. Offer refuses, whereupon Lina screams again so that Ms. Offer agrees. Lina meets her friend Sebastian there. After the cinema, Ms. Offer forbids Lina to take her Sebastian home with her. Lina and Sebastian have long planned to get married, but this is not legally possible. Lina behaves like a housewife with Ms. Offer, and while she is preparing breakfast, she accidentally destroys a valuable sculpture, so Ms. Offer is beside herself. Lina painstakingly reassembles the figure and decorates it in her modern way.
Lina sleeps in Frau Offer's son's room and suspects that the boy is dead. In the sunny village, the residents put change and valuables together to buy a hamster for Ms. Offer. Sebastian calls this a "union". The hamster is given to Ms. Offer and Lina calls him " George Clooney ". Mrs. Offer doesn't like it, but takes it anyway.
Charly, the director of the Sun Village, and Lina later visit Lina's father, who has awakened from his coma, Lina believing that he heard her alarm clock. Ms. Offer reveals herself as the cause of the accident. When the residents of the sunny village do a dance rehearsal, Lina and Sebastian are caught making love. Then Sebastian's mother is notified, who is against the relationship. She quits Sebastian's place in the sun village and locks him away from Lina. When Lina comes to Ms. Offer in the rain, she asks what the hamster should be called. Lina also announces that she wants to marry Sebastian, to which Ms. Offer sternly replies that this is impossible because of the disability, but Lina insists. Sebastian's parents talk about their son's love for Lina. The mother fears that Lina will become pregnant, but the father doesn't believe this. Sebastian overhears the conversation.
On a day off from Lina, Ms. Offer is said to receive the silver medal for her fight against injustice. She takes Lina with her against her will. However, Lina carries the hamster in her pocket and feeds it. During Ms. Offer's speech, Lina lets the hamster run free at the audience's feet, which causes panic. Ms. Offer renounces the speech and finally gives the badge of honor to Lina because she saved the hamster.
Ms. Offer's son is a clinic clown , which she doesn't agree with. He once fell out with his mother because he did not want to pursue a legal career. The conversations with her son are not the best.
Sebastian (called "Wutzel" by his parents) informs his parents in writing that he wants to leave home and marry Lina. He actually runs away and meets with Lina. This creates excitement and concern and the two are wanted everywhere. First they are in the cinema, then they are vulgarly addressed in Resselpark , whereupon they flee to Ms. Offer. This takes the two of them and admonishes them because of their runaway. Sebastian stubbornly refuses to go home and says he wants to marry Lina in a church. The two spend the night with Mrs. Offer. When Charly calls, Ms. Offer denies that they are with her. The next day she brings Sebastian home and his parents are relieved. Sebastian's mother refuses to allow him to attend the dance premiere that the facility is hosting. In the other facility, Sebastian behaves screaming and constantly throwing himself on the floor. The supervisor realizes that Sebastian wants to go back to the sun village and his mother takes him out of there immediately.
At the dance performance, Lina's dance teacher stands in line for Sebastian; but Sebastian arrives with his father and later his mother. He then dances on stage with Lina unprepared. When Ms. Offer wants to talk to Sebastian's mother about their love, Sebastian's mother speaks out against the connection and expels Ms. Offer from the house. Sebastian overhears the conversation again.
Soon after, Mrs. Offer instructs her ex-husband, who is minister, to get an appointment with the bishop. At the audience, the bishop tells her that the marriage of disabled people is a unique situation and that the same law applies in the Church. The bishop instructs the cathedral priest to check whether a person is fit to marry. He visits the family and thus the newlyweds with Down syndrome. The pastor allows them to marry. Sebastian and Lina get married in a church. Meanwhile, Ms. Offer's son and girlfriend are also expecting offspring.
background
For director Wolfgang Murnberger it was the first collaboration with actors with Down syndrome. The professional actors Juliane Götze and Sebastian Urbanski were once a couple in real life.
criticism
“In the ARD purging comedy“ Just as you are ”, a bourgeois ex-judge suddenly has to deal with a young woman with Down's syndrome and her own“ emotional disability ”and soars to the advocate of the oppressed hearts ... Dramaturgical Predictable on a large scale, but finely balanced on a small scale, the German-Austrian co-production is an embarrassing, differentiated feel-good movie that is based on the principle "handicapped mouth makes truth known", but never overstrains it. "
“Of course, a work like this always wants to help break down prejudices. But thanks to the implementation by Wolfgang Murnberger, the film never carries his concerns before it. The fact that Michalina, who is always happy and also pretty, is different from the others soon no longer plays a role, because Helene's life is much messed up, as can be seen from the disturbed relationship with her son at the latest. A very special film, however, becomes “As you are” through the interaction of the two main actresses. Particularly noteworthy is the performance of Juliana Götze, even if it is not a surprise: The actress has been part of the ensemble of the Berlin RambaZamba Theater for many years and was already outstanding in a Munich “police call”, “Rosi's Baby”. Murnberger ("Die Spätzünder", "Die Abstauber") once again proves to be one of the best German-speaking comedy directors. "
Awards
The film was awarded the Austrian Adult Education Television Prize in 2012.
Web links
- The way you are in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Media library , Das Erste , available until October 30, 2019
Individual evidence
- ↑ The way you are. Moviepilot.de, accessed on August 1, 2019 .
- ↑ The way you are - review of the film - Tittelbach.tv. Retrieved August 1, 2019 .
- ↑ Just like you are film (2012) · Trailer · Review · KINO.de. Retrieved August 1, 2019 .
- ↑ Knowledgebase Adult Education - Television Award. Retrieved August 1, 2019 .