Under suspicion: all alone
| Episode in the series Under Suspicion | |||
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| Original title | All alone | ||
| Country of production | Germany | ||
| original language | German | ||
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EIKON Media | ||
| length | 90 minutes | ||
| Age rating | FSK 12 | ||
| classification | Episode 22 ( List ) | ||
| First broadcast | April 11, 2014 on arte | ||
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| Director | Martin Weinhart | ||
| script |
Stephan Holtz Florian Iwersen |
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| production | Mario cancer | ||
| music | Sebastian pill | ||
| camera | Jo home | ||
| cut | Matthias Wilfert | ||
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Mutterseelenallein is a German TV film by Martin Weinhart from 2014 with Senta Berger as Dr. Eva Maria Prohacek and the 22nd film in the ZDF film series Unter Verdacht . The main guest roles in this episode are Ursula Strauss , Rafael Gareisen , Philippe Graber and Michael Lerchenberg .
action
The nine-year-old son of the single parent Hartz IV recipient Petra Molnar hanged himself. Doubts quickly arise during police investigations, as suicide is absolutely uncommon in children at this age. In addition, Petra's older son Martin incriminates his mother with serious allegations. Dr. Eva Maria Prohacek and her colleague André Langner start the investigation against the youth welfare office, as a corresponding review falls within their area of responsibility. In office one is not aware of any guilt and asserts that one has properly observed and accompanied the family. Taking care of the boy was not necessary from the point of view of the youth welfare office. However, the youth welfare office did show grievances, because not only were a number of calls for help from the Molnars verifiably ignored, but also the visit documents, after being targeted by the police, manipulated and in part destroyed. Fortunately, the investigators can locate the original documents before they are finally destroyed and learn from them that Petra Molnar herself had urged that her son be placed in the care of the youth welfare office, because she had felt that he was overwhelmed during her depressive phases and very much below suffered. But the office ignored their concerns because they did not see the situation as really threatening. For Eva Maria Prohacek, this proves the failure of the youth welfare office and her work on this case is completed. But she is dissatisfied with the situation because it has not been conclusively clarified whether David actually committed suicide. Martin Molnar's allegations against his mother were initially untenable. But Prohacek finds some abnormalities when she deals intensively with David's living conditions. She is able to track down a playmate of his and learns from her that David's little dog, to which he was very attached, was poisoned five weeks ago. The questioning of Jörg Wegener, the neighbor and friend of Petra Molnar, shows that this was obviously an extended suicide attempt by her, to which only the dog fell victim because Wegener had intervened in time. At the time he had to promise his girlfriend not to tell anyone about it because she threatened to throw herself out the window. Due to the allegations against her and during a current depression, Petra Molnar again tried to commit suicide, but was found in time and taken to a clinic.
Ultimately, it cannot be clarified beyond any doubt whether Petra Molnar was actually actively involved in the death of her son. It seems as if the boy, who was absolutely overwhelmed by his living conditions, actually no longer wanted to live, especially since he could not expect support and help from the youth welfare office or from other sources. It remains to be seen whether the child would still be alive if the youth welfare office had intervened and removed the boy from his family.
Background, publication
Dr. Eva Maria Prohacek, played by Senta Berger , is reminded of her personal fate in a conversation with Petra Molnar, the mother of the hanged boy. The conversation is about a car accident in which Petra Molnar was behind the wheel and in which one of her children has already been killed. In the first episode of the series Under Suspicion , the viewer learns of just such a tragedy that happened to the inspector herself and in which her son died.
reception
Audience rating
The first broadcast of the episode Mutterseelenallein on April 11, 2014 on the arte channel was seen by 5.37 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 21.4 percent for ZDF .
criticism
Thomas Gehringer from tittelbach.tv said: This TV thriller is "more serious, but outstanding again". “Thanks to a script that doesn't force you to judge, and a staging that leaves the final conclusion to the audience. Thanks to a great Ursula Strauss in the role of mother. And thanks to an unconventional camera and imagery. "
Tilmann rated P. Gangloff for the Frankfurter Rundschau and found the “story joyless, sad and correspondingly depressing. As a film, however, 'Muttersoulenallein' is extremely worth seeing. ”“ Muttersoulenallein ”was“ emphatically calm and [...] very carefully staged. Every setting should be noted how well thought out it is, which of course also applies to the motto Mortui vivos docent (The dead teach the living) in pathology. Above all, however, the director, together with his cameraman Jo Heim, found images that illustrate the family tragedy in a laconic and eloquent way. The family members repeatedly disappear into tunnels: sometimes literally, sometimes as a result of the composition of the image. "
Uwe Ebbinghaus from the FAZ said: “It is a dizzying ambiguous social thriller that Stefan Holtz and Florian Iwersen wrote. And it is up-to-date insofar as the fact that the social question is not just a nuisance, but has long been ignored, is permanently in the room. The film takes a risk with the glaring backlight, which it lavishly stages and which is supposed to refer to the main characters' longing for the hereafter, who cannot be helped in reality. "
For the critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm , who gave the film the best possible rating (thumbs up), Unter suspected: All alone was a “startling look behind neighboring doors”.
Web links
- Suspect: All alone in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Under suspicion: All alone at fernsehserien.de
- Under suspicion: All alone, complete film
Individual evidence
- ↑ Interview with Senta Berger at presseportal.zdf.de, accessed on November 13, 2017.
- ↑ a b Thomas Gehringer: Senta Berger, Krause, Anthoff, Ursula Strauss. Crime drama & multi-layered tragedy Film review at tittelbach.tv, accessed on November 13, 2017.
- ↑ Tilmann P. Gangloff : The dead teach the living at fr.de, accessed on November 13, 2017.
- ↑ Uwe Ebbinghaus: From the death of a boy at faz.net, accessed on November 13, 2017.
- ↑ Under suspicion: All alone. In: TV Spielfilm , accessed on June 27, 2017 .