Silent Valley (film)

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TV movie
Original title Silent valley
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2011
length 88 minutes
Rod
Director Marcus O. Rosenmüller
script Michael Illner ,
Alfred Roesler-Kleint
production Barbara Häbe ,
Norbert Sauer ,
Cornelia Wecker
music George Kochbeck
camera Stefan Spreer
cut Raimund Vienken
occupation

Stilles Tal is a German TV film from the MDR from 2011 .

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The Saxon Thomas Stille runs the “Stilles Tal” inn together with his wife Barbara Stille in a property in the Müglitztal , which he bought from the community after the fall of the Wall and rebuilt. In August 2002 he plans to reopen the inn; her daughter Dixie is expecting her first child shortly.

Then the West German Konrad Huberty appears with his wife Anna and their lawyer and claims the property for himself, as it was built by his great-grandfather. Huberty had won his trial against Stille, which Stille had not learned from a negligence of his lawyer. Huberty plans to convert the property into a family hotel for his son to run.

Stille defends himself with hands and feet against Huberty's plan and tells him that his father didn't have to leave the property in the fog and night. Huberty, in turn, thinks that he had no desire to have to defend himself against the communists after the National Socialists . Barbara Stille first tries to mediate.

During the disputes between the two families, constant heavy rain falls, which gradually builds up when the Elbe floods in 2002 . The police cannot carry out the evacuation decision as a flood-related operation has priority. The Stille family receives support from Olli Reschke, the father of Dixie's child, in their fight against the water masses.

Shortly after Dixie goes into labor for the first time, the steadily rising flood causes a first, and a little later, another piece of the house to break away, until only a small stump remains. The wives Stille and Huberty as well as Dixie and Olli can leave the building on a boat that drifts by. Thomas Stille and Konrad Huberty stay behind; Mrs. Stille promises to send help to the two men.

Since Huberty has taken out new insurance for the day of the handover, which does not cover any flood damage, he suggests to Stille officially forego the handover so that his old insurance continues to apply and the damage incurred is still financially covered. For the continued operation of the "Silent Valley" a GmbH is to be founded and financed with the sum insured and the capital that Huberty wanted to finance anyway. Stille agrees and says Huberty will have to properly backdate his waiver.

While the helicopter is on the rescue and reaches the two men, Dixie gives birth to her child. Huberty can be saved; Silence goes down with the rest of the building stump when it is hit by a large tank floating in the water.

Three years later the hotel restaurant "Stilles Tal" was rebuilt; Dixie and Huberty are playing in the garden with Dixie's daughter Marie.

Reviews

"(TV) melodrama that uses the flood disaster of 2002 only as a foil for a trivial, sometimes very kitschy story about law and justice in the course of German-German reunification."

- Lexicon of International Films

“Director Marcus O. Rosenmüller manages to skilfully entertain with a difficult topic. However, one would have liked the film to have more depth. The German-German unification treaty from 1990, on which the story is based, only falls in a subordinate clause. In addition, Rosenmüller occasionally drifts into clichés, for example with sentences like 'Those from over there who think they can do it with us'. However, the cast was successful: Stumph convinces as a bitter host from the East, while Atzorn skilfully mimes the arrogant parade Wessi, who also likes to play the moral apostle: 'What you don't forget is not lost', he says in the end, age-wise . "

- Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung

“Overall, the film's imagery is rather simple: the house that stands for the common German state. The two arguments, who still find each other in the disaster they have lived through together. Rosenmüller's work falls back into the sentimental habits of the 8.15 p.m. program. So the troubled spectator soul comes to rest at the sight of a sweet little baby. But silence will not return anytime soon in German-German relations. "

- Focus

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Silent Valley. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 23, 2019 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. ↑ Sophie Hilgenstock: In “Stilles Tal” an Ossi and a Wessi are fighting over a farm. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung . September 6, 2011, accessed August 31, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Gregor Dolak: TV column “Stilles Tal” - GDR-Cain meets BRD-Abel. In: Focus . September 7, 2011, accessed August 31, 2018 .