Our wonderful years
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| Original title | Our wonderful years |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| year | 2020 |
| Episodes | 6 (original version) |
| genre | Historical drama |
| Director | Elmar Fischer |
| script | Robert Krause and Florian Puchert |
| music | Matthias legs and William Wahl |
| camera | Felix Novo de Oliveira |
| Initial release | March 11, 2020 on ARD media library |
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Our wonderful years is a German television series from 2020, directed by Elmar Fischer based on the novel of the same name by Peter Prange .
action
On June 20, 1948, 40 D-Marks hot off the press were issued to every citizen in Altena , a small town in Westphalia - just like everywhere else in West Germany. The economic miracle begins with the currency reform . This epoch is told using the example of the medium-sized metal goods manufacturer Eduard Wolf, his wife and their three daughters. Margot is married to an SS man who was missing at the end of the war , Hauptsturmführer Fritz Nippert, with whom she has a son. His homecoming leads to a conflict with his father. She gives preference to her family and initially breaks with her parents' home. The miserable circumstances lead to the death of the husband suffering from TB , who asks his wife to suffocate him so that she could at least get a pension. She finally complies with this request.
Ulla Wolf wants to study medicine, even though her father chose her to take over the company. The pharmacist's son, Jürgen Vielhaber, who later rose to become a building contractor and SPD local politician, woos her favor . Both later marriages are overshadowed by the fact that Ulla can hardly deny her changeable feelings for her other childhood friend, Tommy Weidner, a worker from difficult backgrounds. Gundel Wolf had seduced Tommy out of jealousy of his father's favored sister, who did not want to become the shooter queen at Tommy's side . In a roundabout way, Gundel and the salesman, who later became a shoe retailer, find Benno Krasemann, Tommy's war comrade, to agree. Shaken by a miscarriage, Gundel concentrates on her tasks at the company in Altena, while her husband, who works in Düsseldorf , gives in to the charms of an employee.
The family patriarch is imprisoned in the UK following an anonymous complaint. He is accused of doing business with the SS and delivering barbed wire for the Belsen camp . He was released because a Jew he had saved testified for him. Ulla Wolf finds this former pharmacist from Altena in Berlin. In truth, however, the father actually did business with the SS. Tommy brings him a document from the archives of the Red Army, which his professor and temporary lover, also the mother of his daughter, got for him while he was studying in East Berlin, ideologically pro-communist. Eduard Wolf then takes his own life. The widow and daughters now work with the father's partner, Walter Böcker, who continues to manage the business, but remains dependent on the four owners of the majority of the capital. So it is a good thing that Margot has meanwhile entered into a marriage of convenience with Böcker, which she believes is the way out of her situation. Böcker, himself a victim of the Nazi regime, but has meanwhile been promoted to the position of employer president, proves to be the correct husband who does a lot for the wife and her child. When Margot took the side of mother and sisters and thus thwarted an ammunition order , Böcker got out, embezzled funds in his favor and - as Margot intended as a young widow - to Argentina.
At the end of the first season, the sisters tend to sell the company, but the mother decides on continuity. Meanwhile, Gundel has made it up with her husband and Tommy approaches Ulla again, who wants to take up her medical studies again. Her marriage to Vielhaber previously fell into a crisis that reached its low point due to an act of violence by the husband.
Emergence
The series was shot from April 1, 2019 to July 23, 2019 on 73 days in North Rhine-Westphalia and the Czech Republic. The central locations were Altena Castle and the Hendrichs drop forge in Solingen . The halls of the former C. Grossmann Stahlguss company also served as a backdrop. The Dieringhausen Railway Museum doubled Altena station. The scenes of the British military tribunal were filmed at Castle Burg , many street scenes in the old town of Pilsen .
publication
The series has six episodes, each around 45 minutes long, which have been on view in the ARD media library since March 11, 2020 . For the first TV broadcast on the first on March 18, 21 and 25, 2020, they were combined into three double episodes.
reception
Reviews
As " geschichtsklitterndes concoction" slating Matthias Dell at online the three-piece suit. Even the title does not fit into the time he claims to be talking about - it was rather tough and full of privation. The dramaturgically monotonous film is a single jelly on a technical level. You might feel sorry for the actors because the only difference between the characters is the color of their hair. The dialogues that went beyond three exchanges can be counted on one hand. The music is cheesy and simple.
“As solid as this German self-narrative may be, it is not sensational. A buttercream cake. If you pull the curtains aside at airtime and the streets look empty, there may be other reasons. "
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of the first episode Zero Hour on March 18, 2020 was seen by 5.89 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 17.6% for Das Erste . The second episode, Alte Schuld und alte Liebe, on March 21st, increased significantly to 6.80 million viewers and a market share of 18.5%, whereas the third episode only reached 5.91 million viewers with a market share of 17.4% .
Web links
- Our wonderful years in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Our wonderful years. In: The first . Bayerischer Rundfunk , accessed on March 22, 2020 (official website for the film).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Our wonderful years at crew united
- ↑ Guido Radtke: Solingen locations provide flair of the 50s for ARD three-part films. RP-online, March 18, 2020, accessed March 19, 2020.
- ↑ Matthias Dell: A single aspic. Zeit Online, March 18, 2020, accessed March 19, 2020.
- ↑ Arno Frank: Our wonderful buttercream cake. "Event TV" in times of the pandemic. In: Culture. Der Spiegel, March 18, 2020, accessed on March 18, 2020 : "The ARD is waiting for the ideal escapism for the quarantine: At prime time, a three-part soap opera is running about the year 1948 - that is, about the 'bad times' immediately after the' worse time '. "
- ↑ Sidney Schering: Prime Time check: Wednesday, 18 March 2020. Quotenmeter.de , March 19, 2020 accessed on 19 March 2020 .
- ↑ Niklas Spitz: Prime Time check: Saturday, 21 March 2020. Quotenmeter.de , March 22, 2020 accessed on 23 March 2020 .
- ↑ Manuel Weis: Prime Time check: Wednesday, 25 March 2020. Quotenmeter.de , March 26, 2020 accessed on 26 March 2020 .