Fathers Home Alone: Mark
| Episode in the Fathers Home Alone series | |
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| Original title | mark |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| length | 90 minutes |
| classification | Episode 2 |
| First broadcast | September 20, 2019 on Das Erste |
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| Director | Jan Martin Scharf |
| script |
Arne Nolting , Jan Martin Scharf |
| production | Stephan Bechtle |
| music | Hansjörg Kohli , Nikolaus Glowna , Ludwig Eckmann |
| camera | Markus Eckert |
| cut | Ulrike Leipold |
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Mark is a German TV movie directed by Jan Martin Scharf from 2019 . It is the second of the four episodes of the mini-series Fathers Alone at Home , in which four fathers from Wuppertal who are overwhelmed in different ways are the focus. In the respective episode, which bears the first name of the respective father, the life of this troubled father is illuminated. Mark , played by David Rott , is introduced as the second father . His wife Judith is played by Felicitas Woll , his daughter Anna by Ida Sophia Wieland . Christina Große is back as Michaela. Mark's friends, played by Peter Lohmeyer , Tim Oliver Schultz and Tobias van Dieken , play leading roles .
Arne Nolting and Jan Martin Scharf resorted to the Australian horizontally narrated series House Husbands , which ran over five seasons, to create the script . They would have been based on 'House Husband' , but built the stories dramatically differently.
action
Mark Lanius, who has made an agreement with his wife Judith to look after their daughter Anna until they start school, now wants to go back to his job as an advertising specialist since Anna has started school. But that is turning out to be far more difficult than Mark had thought. A part-time job was agreed, but since his wife, as a doctor in the hospital, cannot arrange her working hours as she likes, there are always overlaps in the care of Anna, for which Mark's supervisor, Ms. Winter, shows no understanding.
Since Mark can't refuse his wife, who is currently studying for an additional specialist examination in emergency aid, he agrees to accompany his daughter's school trip, which Judith actually wanted to do. Since the theater performance that the children want to attend starts a little later, their teacher Ramona Reiberg suggests putting on a few games in the adjacent park. As a result, Mark's schedule gets more and more confused, as he actually has to go about his work and could only shovel himself free for a short time. As Mark is talking to his supervisor, he is confronted with the news that little Tom Savona, son of his friend Timo, has disappeared. The care of Tom was his. When Mark calls his home, his assistant is David Schneider. Annoyed, he ends the conversation. When Tom's jellyfish costume is spotted on the riverbank, one fears the worst. However, two police officers show up with the boy who ran after a garbage truck into which one of the children had thrown his ball. He wanted it back.
His supervisor, Ms. Winter, tells Mark that she now knows that she cannot hope that he will improve his career, that she has to see if she has any use for him at all. When, on his return to his apartment, he also meets Judith and David in what at first glance seems to be a tricky situation, they only worked on the body for the test, and Judith then also tells him that he will just say no if it becomes too much for him and shouldn't be such a yes-man, that's enough for Mark. He goes to a pub and meets Ramona Reiberg there, they start talking and have a drink together. Surprisingly, there is a kiss between the two of them when they say goodbye. Mark, in particular, is deeply shocked. He is determined to give Judith the kiss the next morning. He buys flowers but is reluctant to say anything. A little later he talks about it with his friend Gerd. He urgently advises him not to tell Judith anything that would only complicate matters.
At the agency, Mark experiences a surprise when their boss, Jonas Niederkorn, tells him that he likes him and would like to promote him. Since Ms. Winter spreads a suboptimal working atmosphere in the house, he should take over her position. The crux is, he should present her the termination. Despite practicing, he finds it difficult.
When Mark made up his mind to tell Judith about the kiss, it was too late, Ramona Reiberg got ahead of him. Judith temporarily moved with Anna to her brother Andreas. In this situation, Mark feels strong enough to hand over the resignation to Ms. Winter. She is completely beside herself, which Mark can understand in a way. Head lice that appear in Anna and other students make the couple more relaxed for the first time. With a grand gesture, Mark renounces the head position in the agency in order to be able to continue working part-time so that Judith can take over the management of the emergency room, because that's the best way for both of them to work. She just has to forgive him because she is the only woman he will ever love. Judith loves her husband - and forgives him.
production
Production notes, publication
The second episode, entitled Mark , was filmed, like the first episode, between October 8 and December 7, 2018 at locations in Cologne and Wuppertal . Wuppertal's landmark, the suspension railway , can also be seen several times in the film . The film was also shot at the Mainzer Strasse primary school in Cologne. Bavaria Fiction GmbH was responsible for the production and made the film for the first on behalf of ARD-Degeto and Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln. The responsible editors at WDR were Claudia Bach and Corinna Liedtke , the responsible editor at Degeto Film was Stefan Kruppa.
The first broadcast of the film took place on September 20, 2019 in the ARD Das Erste program .
background
David Rott said about the production that he was happy about the project. He was attracted by “not making a single film, but rather to show a portfolio of fathers in different ages and life situations who have in common that their children go to the same class”. The film Mark has “its very own atmosphere” in which one likes to be. The cast was also successful, Felicitas Woll, who plays his wife, and he would go very well together. It was really fun working with her. This also applies to the other colleagues. In fact, the film got even better than he thought. At first he did not understand at all the picking up that is made for just one kiss, it was only when he was shooting that he really became aware of the value context of these characters and he had to agree with the director, who was also involved in the script. Rott confirmed, like Lohmeyer, that they understood each other very well and that they had formed a WhatsApp group since filming in which they were constantly exchanging ideas. That is very nice. When asked whether he was not surprised that his film character Mark had problems with only one child, since he himself is the father of five children, Rott said that, to be honest, he found it much more exhausting when you only have one Child and not many. But there is a lot of overlap between him and Mark, since his wife is actually a doctor and in the clinic from morning to evening.
Felicitas Woll replied in a short interview that the special thing about this production was primarily the collaboration with Jan Martin Scharf, the director. After the serious first film together Naked. The network never forgets. once I wanted to do a comedy together. And with the great books and the even better cast, the opportunity was there.
When Arne Nolting and Jan Martin Scharf were asked what they could have adopted from the Australian model, Scharf replied, "The characters, the character constellations, and above all the friendship between these very different fathers". The events and adventures that they had together were then condensed into three films so far and, above all, one made one and focused on one of these fathers for each film and shed light on his story - and also his relationship history. Nolting added that this means that every film works on its own. Nevertheless, he recommends watching all films in the order in which they are shown. Basically, it is of course good if there is already a template, but you still have to make it your own, also with regard to the cultural differences. In the writing process, your own handwriting will prevail at some point, so that the starting material is then “a kind of trampoline” that “shot us into the creative process”. It starts with the fact that the story, which takes place in an Australian suburb, has now been moved to Wuppertal, and everyday school life in Australia is also very different from the German one. When asked that the two of them had been a team for a long time, Nolting and Scharf confirmed that they had actually done the vast majority of projects together for 20 years.
reception
Audience rating
When it was first broadcast, the film attracted 3.22 million viewers with a market share of 12 percent.
criticism
Rainer Tittelbach dealt with the film on his page tittelbach.tv , which he gave 4.5 out of 6 possible stars, and summarized: “Being a househusband in 'Fathers alone at home' doesn't mean being the man in the house. Because it is mostly the women who have the say in the humorous multi-part series […] - although the men are the focus of these Friday evening films. […] Yes, it's about the famous gender clichés. In doing so, Arne Nolting [...] and Jan Martin Scharf [...] have a focus on everyday life and how to cope with it; The whole thing is told accordingly lightly and loosely, although without too much depth, but also without false message bohei and without artificial dramatization. The staging is also fluid and brisk, with ellipses at the right time and good comedic timing. The cast is - in the starting episodes - exquisite, only the brighter-than-bright illumination bothers a bit. ”The“ second film of the multi-part ”is“ a bit more funny in the first half than the episode 'Gerd'. Especially David Rott's husband, who cannot say no and who fulfills his wife's every wish ", provides" with his tense seriousness, the ambition to be the very best father and husband, and with his genuine despair after a 'wrong step' for a ( tragi) comical tone ”.
On the TV feature film page it was said: “Love in Wuppertal: Rott is wonderfully tricky for the man in crisis; Felicitas Woll has a crush on the committed best wife of all. And Peter Lohmeyer, as a confident macho commenting on the jealousy and confusion fun, centers the plot. ”The thumb consequently pointed upwards.
Tilmann P. Gangloff looked at the film on the website evangelisch.de and wrote that the description of the plot sounded “like a drama” at first, but like the first film it was “an entertaining and sometimes extremely amusing comedy, albeit with depth “Emerged. "Just the color scheme alone" signals "feel-good television". The “people from Wuppertal” would “possibly not recognize their hometown despite the suspension railway constantly moving through the picture” […], because “cameraman Markus Eckert shows the city from its most beautiful sides, bathed in a mild autumn light”. "In addition to the image design, the realistic story and the sometimes rather brisk dialogues, the film impresses above all with its performance." That "the actors without exception fit their roles well" is one thing, but they also succeed " a perfect balance on the fine line between drama, comedy and comedy ”. The film works even if you haven't seen the first one […]; "But of course it's more fun because Mark's best friend Gerd (Peter Lohmeyer) and his wife, Judith's best friend Michaela (Christina Große), have already been introduced". “The best”, however, are “the dialog scenes, some of which are characterized by a lot of pun and played well by everyone involved”.
Frank Jürgens rated the film for the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung and stated that "the second part of the witty series [...] works, not least thanks to the great ensemble". The second part of the four-episode series "shakes again, in an entertaining way, role models that have long been believed to have been overcome, but which in real life are still firmly rooted in large parts of society". The film received four stars out of six.
Fathers alone at home: Timo
The third film in the series was made between May 7 and June 6, 2019. A broadcast date for the film, which focuses on former Bundesliga player Timo Savona, has not yet been announced.
Web links
- Fathers alone at home: Mark in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Fathers alone at home: Mark at crew united
- Fathers alone at home 2. Mark see page fernsehserien.de
- Fathers alone at home: Mark's picture gallery on daserste.de
- Fathers at home alone: Mark full film in the ARD media library (available up to and including March 20, 2020)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Jan Martin Scharf (script and direction) and Arne Nolting (book) in conversation see page daserste.de
- ↑ For filming at the Mainzer Straße primary school, see the page on meinuedstadt.de
- ↑ Fathers alone at home: Mark at crew united
- ↑ David Rott in conversation see page daserste.de
- ↑ Felicitas Woll in a short interview see page daserste.de
- ↑ a b Rainer Tittelbach : Multi-part series “Fathers alone at home - Gerd / Mark”. Peter Lohmeyer, David Rott, Grosse, Scharf / Nolting. Housekeepers stick together see page tittelbach.tv . Retrieved February 25, 2020.
- ↑ Fathers alone at home: Mark see page tvspielfilm.de (as video). Retrieved February 25, 2020.
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^ Tilmann P. Gangloff : TV tip: "Fathers alone at home: Mark" (ARD)
see page evangelisch.de, September 20, 2019. Retrieved on February 25, 2020. -
↑ Frank Jürgens: ARD shows “Fathers Alone at Home” - Convincing continuation
In: Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung , September 20, 2019. Accessed on February 25, 2020.