Tarragona - A paradise on fire
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| Original title | Tarragona - A paradise on fire |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German , Spanish |
| Publishing year | 2007 |
| length | 180 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Peter Keglevic |
| script | Timo Berndt |
| production |
Michael Souvignier Ica Souvignier Rolant Hergert |
| camera | Alexander Fischerkoesen |
| cut | Moune Barius |
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Tarragona - A Paradise in Flames is a two-part German television film from 2007. It was produced on behalf of RTL , which first broadcast the film on September 9, 2007. The story is based on the Los Alfaques tanker truck accident on a campsite in Spain in 1978, in which 217 people, mostly Germans, died. The director is Peter Keglevic .
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Part 1
The teenagers Michael and Sabine, a couple in love, are secretly vacationing in Spain at a campsite that is idyllically situated by the sea. While Michael's parents think that he is in a tent camp, Sabine's father believes that his daughter is staying with an aunt. While Sabine is bathing in the sea, a stranger steals her purse from her pocket. So she informs Michael's mother that she is in Spain and asks her to send her some money.
Meanwhile, Ulrike is with her two children Maike and Timmy as well as her new boyfriend with the caravan on the way from Germany to the campsite in Spain. Maike in particular has problems with her mother's new boyfriend and gives them an open understanding during the journey. She notes that her birth father, with whom Ulrike and her children were at the campsite last year, is vacationing there again to meet them there.
Günter and Katharina are also staying at the campsite, like last year. However, Katharina has to realize that Bärbel, with whom Günter cheated on the campsite the year before, is here again this year.
Dirk and his gay friend José are also on the pitch, as Dirk's unloved father Walter wants to meet him here. When they meet, Dirk and Walter immediately quarreled. Dirk wants to leave, but José persuades him to stay a few more days.
Hannah, a doctor and amateur photographer who pitched her tent right next to Walter's, overhears the argument between Walter and his son. She then learns from Walter in a conversation that he suffers from cancer and would like to say goodbye to his son in peace.
Günter meets with Bärbel in their trailer. They have sex and Bärbel tells him that her husband broke up with her after he found out about the affair.
At around the same time Katharina collapses in front of the camping supermarket. Hannah, the doctor, happens to come by and help her. She said it was the heat, but to be on the safe side, she took a blood sample, which she sent to her brother-in-law, a pharmacist in the neighboring village, for analysis. Katharina then tells her about her problems with her husband, whereupon Hannah tries to comfort her.
Sabine and Michael are now working at the camping bar to earn some money. In the evening, Sabine comes into contact with Maike's and Timmy's father, who offers her marijuana. That's why Sabine goes to see him after work. There she discovers her wallet in a pocket. Since the man also wants her to have sexual contact, she makes an appointment with him on the beach and asks him to take the bag and the marijuana with him. On the beach, the two of them take off their clothes and make a swim into a swimming raft. But Sabine breaks off early and returns to the beach. There she gets dressed, takes the marijuana, her money and the man's clothes and returns to the campsite with Michael, who has secretly followed them.
Teenagers and young adults can have fun in the disco at the campsite. José, who is a dancer, manages to amaze the visitors with his skills. His friend Dirk is annoyed about this and pulls José with him to the sea. There Dirk tells José that he also wanted to be a dancer. When he confronted his father that he wanted to go to a dance school, his father pushed him, and Dirk broke his foot. The break was so complicated that he was in the hospital for several days and was able to forget his dance career. Since his father never visited him, he ran away later.
The next morning, José is swimming. He meets Dirk's father on the bank. At the father's request, they take a walk along the beach. José confronts his father with the accusation that he had never visited Dirk in the hospital, whereupon he explained that he was looking for a specialist in the USA to completely cure Dirk's complicated injury. The father explains to José that he suffers from cancer and would like to say goodbye to Dirk.
Günter and Bärbel are together in the café and drink a cocktail. Bärbel explains to Günter that he has to choose either her or Katharina. Then she leaves without finishing her cocktail.
Meanwhile, Katharina learns the results of her blood test from Hannah. Hannah explains that she is very healthy, but Katharina is pregnant. When Katharina and Günter later meet at their caravan, she happily explains to him that they have to talk about the three of them. Günter misunderstood that and said she was talking about Bärbel. He therefore explains to her that he loves Bärbel and that Katharina either has to get involved in a three-way relationship or should break up. Katharina goes to Hannah, completely distraught, without informing Günter about the baby, who tries to help her.
Dirk is persuaded by José to seek a conversation with his father.
Dietmar, Ulrike and their children have meanwhile arrived at the campsite. There Dietmar gets into an argument with Maike's biological father Joachim. He pushes Dietmar to the ground and disappears with Maike onto his boat.
In order to save costs, a tanker loaded with 23 tons of liquefied gas does not use the toll motorway, but the parallel national road that runs right past the campsite. The maximum permissible load of the tanker has been exceeded by four tons. A blown tire caused by a broken glass gets out of control at the campsite, breaks through the outer wall of the area, drives over several tents and caravans and finally tips over an ornamental well, causing the gas tank to leak. The escaping gas explodes and a roller of fire destroys most of the campsite.
Part 2
Part 2 follows on seamlessly from Part 1, right after the gas is ignited. Several people are shown. You can see José, who is standing next to an ice chest, grabbing Timmy, who happens to be standing next to him, and putting it in the freezer before he and Ulrike, who is standing next to him, are caught by the explosion.
After the explosion, the rescue measures get underway slowly, the first injured are not brought to the hospital by the ambulance, but by undamaged guests or drivers who are on the main road, such as Günter.
Dietmar, who also survived the explosion unharmed, is looking for Ulrike and her children. He soon finds Ulrike seriously injured, but still approachable. Just as Ulrike is being loaded into the ambulance, Maike joins them, who was on the boat with her father during the accident. She drives with her mother to a monastery where a hospital has been set up. Dietmar continues to look for Timmy, but he cannot find him anywhere.
Dirk and his father survived the explosion unscathed as they were looking for protection behind a car. Dirk is looking for his friend José and finds it. When he is being transported to the hospital in Dirk, José tells of a boy in a chest in Spanish, but Dirk does not understand what it is about.
Michael's father, who now knows that Michael is also in Spain because of the call from Sabine, hears about the accident on the radio. Since he is afraid that his son will also be there, he immediately drives to Sabine's father, who works in the hospital. This organizes that both fathers can fly to Spain on a German emergency supply flight.
Dietmar can't find Timmy, which is why he asks several people, including Dirk. He remembers what José said and brings Dietmar to the chest. There you will find Timmy safe and sound. Dietmar then goes to Ulrike's monastery with Timmy.
Meanwhile, Martin, Sabine's father, and Hans, Michael's father, have arrived in Spain and are looking for their children in the hospital. They don't find anything there, which is why they continue to the monastery. They won't find anything there either, whereupon Martin says to Hans that it would be better that way, because almost no one in the monastery has a chance anyway due to the lack of equipment. Joachim hears this and is worried about the seriously injured Ulrike.
Meanwhile, Sabine and Michael are found under the rubble. Sabine is only slightly injured because Michael threw himself protectively over her. This is no longer accessible for this. Both are transported to the hospital.
Katharina is also in the hospital looking for Günter and Hannah. When she finds Günter, he complains about the pain because as a hemophiliac he can not take normal painkillers. He asks her to get a special drug. Katharina goes on to Hannah, who has been badly burned. Hannah tells Katharina that she doesn't want to go on living like this and asks her for a favor.
Dirk and his father see that José's condition is deteriorating. The father would like to have José flown out to Germany because the medical care is better there. The Germans reject this because José is not a German, but a Spanish citizen.
Maike and Timmy's father came to the convent to fetch his children. But they want to save their mother first. The father therefore goes his way again. Meanwhile, Dietmar decided to steal an ambulance to take Ulrike to the hospital, as the chances of recovery are apparently greater there. Together with the children he puts Ulrike in the car and drives off.
Martin and Hans look at the dead and believe they have discovered Sabine there. However, after a phone call, they learned that both children had been admitted to the clinic.
Katharina has meanwhile used force to get a drug for Joachim from the pharmacy, but it is fatal for normal people. She brings the medicine to Günter. Katharina explains to him that this is the last time he has seen her and that it is over now. She takes some of the medicine with her when she goes to see Hannah.
Dietmar has been on an odyssey with the ambulance, but still makes it to the clinic. Ulrike is still alive, but her condition is becoming increasingly critical.
Hans and Martin arrive at the clinic. There they meet Sabine, who explains to them that Michael will die due to the lack of equipment in the clinic. A trip to Germany is also not possible due to its condition. Martin, who has a high post in his hospital, decides to illegally fly material from the hospital to Spain in order to ensure the survival of Michael, although this action will probably cost his job.
When Dirk tries to look after José, he sees that he has been taken away. He assumes that José is dead until a sister informs him that he is being flown out. After all, she says, he is, after all, a German citizen. Dirk is relieved and knows exactly that his father is behind it.
Katharina gives Hannah some of Günter's medicine. Before Hannah commits suicide with it, she tells Katharina that she was a good friend.
Dirk visits his father in his tent on the campsite, which was largely undamaged. But he only finds him dead because he did not swallow his cancer drugs.
Ulrike is dead too, she succumbed to her injuries despite being transferred to the clinic. Dietmar takes Maike and Timmy in his arms and pulls away with them.
Reviews
“A bit of catastrophe and a lot of emotions: The two-part series produced by Zeitsprung about the campsite disaster in Tarragona is above all a rollercoaster of emotions. [...] If it weren't for this latent threat, "Tarragona" would be a "soap" by other means. With relish the author Timo Berndt spreads a whole series of large and small dramas (actors, among others: Tim Bergmann, Sophie von Kessel, Hanns Zischler, Laura Tonke). Due to the necessary scarcity, however, the stories are correspondingly clichéd and offer a similar depth to the daily episodes of "Gute Zeiten, Bad Zeiten". The steadily approaching time bomb naturally charges these little side scenes with drama. Part one ends with a fulminant explosion that produces various offshoots at the beginning of the sequel, because of course cars and propane gas bottles also blow up on the site. The second part draws its somewhat morbid tension from the question of which of the people one was able to get to know extensively survived; and in what condition. The inferno itself only lasts a few minutes. "
“[...] as the background for a television disaster film that is developed according to the conventions of the genre and, if need be, is noticed by the experienced actors. [...] The fates are ticked off quickly, with dialogue sentences of sometimes unspeakable simplicity and implausible dramaturgical-psychological developments. What begins as an ambitious portrait of an era ends up as a carelessly unwound piece of stirring. "
Web links
- Tarragona - A paradise in flames in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Criticism on kino.de
- ^ Journal film-dienst and Catholic Film Commission for Germany (eds.), Horst Peter Koll and Hans Messias (ed.): Lexikon des Internationale Films - Filmjahr 2007 . Schüren Verlag, Marburg 2008. ISBN 978-3-89472-624-9