And yet we love

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Movie
Original title And yet we love
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2011
length 89 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Matthias Tiefenbacher
script Martin Kluger ,
Maureen Herzfeld
production Sven Burgemeister ,
Katja Kirchen ,
Andreas Schneppe
music Michael Gerlach ,
Roman Schwartz
camera Holly Fink
cut Horst Reiter
occupation

And yet we love is a German drama by Matthias Tiefenbacher from 2011 .

action

Surgeon Anne May lives with her husband Peter, who works as a damage analyst, and their children Tommie and Tessa in a villa in Munich. Anne and Peter have just returned from a vacation in the Mediterranean and Anne realizes that shortly before her 40th birthday, her life has reached a dead end. Peter has to go abroad for work to investigate a serious train accident. Anne stays behind, wondering if their marriage still makes sense. She fears that she has degenerated into a routine. She does not respond to Peter's calls and is lost in thought throughout the day. At school, your son met David, who was the same age and who came to Germany with his mother from Chile for six months. David's mother Carolin works for the Chilean Ministry of Economic Affairs. One day Anne brings David home and meets Carolin in the process. Both women get on like soul mates and spend the entire evening together. In the end they say goodbye and Anne realizes that she was happy for the first time in a long time. In the following years, both women spend a lot of time with the children, go swimming and shopping together and Carolin encourages Anne to treat herself to something again and to step out of her chosen marriage loneliness. Anne actually doesn't want to celebrate her 40th birthday, especially since Peter won't be in the country, but at Carolin's insistence she decides differently. She buys a new dress and invites friends and colleagues to a celebration with Chilean food that she prepares with Carolin. The colleagues wanted to give Anne a special treat: They brought Peter for the party. Anne doesn't know if she should be happy about it. Carolin, however, is flabbergasted and leaves the party early.

Peter recognized Carolin straight away, having had a brief affair with her many years ago. She left him then because she knew that he would never leave his wife Anne for her. David is Peter's illegitimate son, but David believes his father is a pilot. Carolin doesn't plan to tell him about Peter. Anne, in turn, knows nothing of any of this. She is surprised that Carolin suddenly reacts very dismissively, ignores phone calls and is cold and uncontrolled even at a meeting in the office. When Carolin picks up David from them one day, Anne overhears a conversation between Peter and Carolin, in which she makes it clear to him that she no longer wants any contact with him. Peter finally tells Anne about his affair with Carolin, which was only a brief episode twelve years ago. Anne asks Peter to move into a hotel. The children do not find out why their parents quarreled, but suffer from the situation. The boys David and Tommie, who were previously close friends, also quarrel at school and finally fight, so that Anne and Carolin are asked for a talk by the teacher. After a verbal exchange of blows, Carolin leaves the staff room, but collapses in the hallway. Anne alerts the ambulance.

In the hospital, Carolin is diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer . She first blames Anne and wants a second opinion, but accepts her illness after a while. Her condition deteriorates rapidly, but Anne and Carolin make up at the bedside. The entire family visits again and again with David Carolin, whom David finally confesses that Peter is his father. He is initially surprised, but soon makes friends with the idea, especially since he has lived with Anne since Carolin's hospitalization. The whole family is with Carolin when she dies. At the end, they raise a sky lantern in memory of Carolin. Between Anne and Peter, who still lives in the hotel, a slow reconciliation takes place.

production

The shooting of the film began in early February 2011 and lasted into March; was shot in Munich. The film was produced by TV-60 Filmproduktion for ARD .

The film premiered on June 29, 2011 at the Munich Film Festival. A German theatrical release was not planned. The film was broadcast on ARD for the first time on November 23, 2012 as part of the ARD theme week “Living with Death”.

criticism

The film service found that in And yet we love the pictures "strictly subordinate to the story, which is told perfectly and free of any unnecessary melodrama and takes on a certain lightness despite the serious ending." The TV Spielfilm praised the Film as "believably played emotional chaos", which thanks to the good acting performance does not slide into kitsch. The film shows that “the Degeto can do a lot more than just sticky cotton candy” and that there is “a fine line between kitschy sentimentality and strong feelings”, were also other critics.

Awards

Producer Andreas Schneppe was nominated at the Munich Film Festival in 2011 in the German TV films category. Claudia Michelsen received a nomination for the Hessian Television Prize in the category Best Actress for her portrayal of Anne in 2011 and was nominated for the Bavarian Television Prize for Best Actress, Television in 2013.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The first: Shooting starts for the television film “And yet we love” (AT) with Claudia Michelsen, Mark Waschke and Melika Foroutan . presseportal.de, February 7, 2011.
  2. ↑ The Internet Movie Database - Companies Involved for And Yet We Love.
  3. ↑ Munich Film Festival - And yet we love ( Memento from September 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Spielfilm.de - And yet we love.
  5. ↑ And yet we love. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  6. ↑ And yet we love tvspielfilm.de.
  7. ↑ Jürgen Overkott: “And yet we love” - a fateful three-way relationship . derwesten.de, November 22, 2012.
  8. ↑ And yet we love crew-united.com.