Our farm in Ireland
| Television series | |
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| Original title | Our farm in Ireland |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Year (s) | 2007-2010 |
| Production company |
Bavaria television production GmbH |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Episodes | 8th |
| genre | Drama , romance |
| music | Andreas Weidinger |
| German-language first broadcast |
October 28, 2007 on ZDF |
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Our farm in Ireland is a German television series that was produced by Bavaria Fernsehproduktion GmbH and broadcast on ZDF .
The eight episodes, published since 2007, are about the heart surgeon Dr. Martin Winter, who emigrated to Ireland with his three daughters after the death of his wife Sonja to work as a country doctor. The new beginning, enriched by the love for the sheep farmer Erin O'Toole, gives the family a new courage to face life.
Karola Meeder directed four episodes , while Hans-Jürgen Tögel was responsible for two episodes and Karl Kases and Christoph Klünker for one episode each.
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After the accidental death of his first wife, the Berlin heart surgeon Dr. Martin Winter and his three daughters Marie, Elisabeth and Paula went to the Irish village of Ballymara to visit in-laws Peter and Anne O'Mally on their sheep farm. The family is trying hard to overcome the loss of the mother and also hopes that the asthma sufferer, their youngest daughter Paula, will be relieved of her illness. When the local country doctor Dr. Lucius McNamara suffers a stroke, Martin takes his place. With courageous rescue missions, he gradually wins the trust of the residents and a little later receives the offer to run the practice permanently. After initial skepticism and exhausting family discussions, he decides to end his career in Germany and to emigrate to Ireland. The turning away from city life is facilitated not least by the growing affection for the sheep farmer Erin O'Toole, who leased the farm from her in-laws. His eldest daughter Marie, however, feels misunderstood by her father and returns to Berlin.
After the first few months in her new home, Martin Erin proposes marriage, which she accepts, although she is still formally married to the war reporter Christoph Lanik, who has been living abroad for years. His sudden return to Ballymara, professional difficulties as a result of a misdiagnosis by McNamara, who has returned to the practice, as well as ongoing conflicts with his two daughters troubled everyone involved. Finally, the wedding takes place on Abbey Island , the island of Erin's aunt Rebecca. Marie, who dropped out of her biology degree, is also back with her family, but denies Erin any emotional closeness. In addition, Erin is at war with widowed and aggressive neighbor Jack Stratton over the rights to the pastureland.
Further strokes of fate in the family and friendly environment such as the death of Aunt Rebecca subsequently accompany Martin and Erin's everyday marriage. Expecting a child, Erin struggles to reconcile her work duties on the farm with her pregnancy. Quarrels with Martin's two older daughters are soon overshadowed by great worries about the health of the unborn child. After giving birth, Erin devotes herself to her daughter Sarah with excessive intensity. Both her stepdaughters and Martin feel set back, which puts the relationship in serious crisis.
Episodes
| No. | title | First broadcast | Audience ratings |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Clouds over the coast | October 28, 2007 | 6.21 million / 16.8% |
| 2 | New times | November 4, 2007 | 6.21 million / 16.5% |
| 3 | love of my life | February 22, 2009 | 5.53 million / 15.6% |
| 4th | jealousy | March 1, 2009 | 5.50 million / 14.9% |
| 5 | New life | January 31, 2010 | 5.55 million / 14.6% |
| 6th | Love carousel | February 21, 2010 | 6.02 million / 16.0% |
| 7th | dance on the volcano | October 31, 2010 | 5.14 million / 14.7% |
| 8th | Guesswork | November 14, 2010 | 5.18 million / 14.0% |
ZDF broadcast the first two episodes on August 8 and 15, 2010 as a rerun. The first six episodes were repeated by ZDF in August and September 2012.
Locations
Most of the photos in the series were taken in County Cork in the south-west of Ireland along the N71 national road between Killarney and the city of Cork . The farm of the couple Peter and Anne O'Mally is located near the fictional village of Ballymara, for which the town of Baltimore in the southwest of the county served as the setting. Further filming took place in Skibbereen , Glandore , Enniskeane , Clonakilty , Timoleague , Courtmacsherry , Kinsale and Cork.
The parks with pond and Italian garden on the island inherited from Erin's aunt Rebecca and referred to in the film as Abbey Island are located on Garinish south of Glengarriff .
For the mansion inhabited by Matthew McGallagher and his mother Ellen in the film, the Bantry House above Bantry Bay served as the backdrop.
Images of high cliffs with green meadows come from Dunmore , County Waterford , among others .
DVD publications
Universum Film released the first two episodes of Our Farm in Ireland: Clouds Over the Coast and New Times in 2011 . Our Farm in Ireland - Box 2 with the consequences Love of my Life and Jealousy was published on August 5, 2011. Our Farm in Ireland - Box 3 with the consequences New Life and Love Carousel was published on October 7, 2011 . Our Farm in Ireland - Box 4 was released on December 9, 2011, with the consequences Dance on the Volcano and Guesswork .
Reviews
The Lexicon of International Films speaks of “stereotypical (television) entertainment that always embeds the same stories about heart, pain and family problems in the charming landscape of the southern Irish coast” and also describes the television film series as “shallow, problem-laden (television) food on the paths of the Pilcher and Lindström men «.
Oddsmeter.de judges the fifth episode New Life : “Whether Rosamunde Pilcher, Inga Lindström or Traumschiff , titles are interchangeable, the basic structure remains. Take a romantic storyline, combine it with dreamy backdrops, actors with experience in the soap, and spice it up with a pinch of drama. […] With a few exceptions, at least the actors cut a pretty good figure and fill their cliché-laden characters with the best possible authenticity. "
Tittelbach.tv rates the seventh episode, Tanz auf dem Vulkan, similarly : »Our farm in Ireland - that's television in the tradition of the Black Forest Clinic . Problems accumulate without any problems, only to be solved in the end just as easily. [...] Despite the life-threatening, fateful events, Hans-Jürgen Tögels film splashes along in the style of the 80s family series. […] In the script, however, one notices nothing of a sensual implementation in a dramaturgical form as it corresponds to the entertainment film standards of 2010. The only thing that holds this film together is the presence of the Irish setting. "
Web links
- Our farm in Ireland in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Our farm in Ireland on fernsehserien.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Basis of evaluation: viewers from three years of age, television panel. Source: ZDF
- ^ The Critics: "Our Farm in Ireland: New Life". In: quotenmeter.de. Oddsmeter GmbH, January 30, 2010, accessed on August 9, 2010 .
- ↑ Series "Our Farm in Ireland - Dance on the Volcano". In: tittelbach.tv. Rainer Tittelbach, October 31, 2010, accessed on November 9, 2010 .