Prohibited Desires - I love my student

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Movie
Original title Prohibited Desires - I love my student
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2000
length 90 minutes
Rod
Director Zoltan Spirandelli
script Michael Illner ,
Scarlett Kleint
production Sat.1 , Nostro Film
music Wolf Wolff
camera Daniel Koppelkamm
cut Magdolna Rokob
occupation

Forbidden Desire - I Love My Student is a German TV film by Zoltan Spirandelli from 2000 with Marion Mitterhammer and Matthias Schweighöfer in the leading roles.

action

The teacher Katharina Kramer is happily married to the architect Ulrich Kröger. They have their own house in Berlin and their children get along well too. When Katharina comes back to school after the holidays, she immediately notices a new student as he stands protectively in front of a classmate who is being bullied by others . However, he does this with a weapon that Katharina immediately takes from him. She looks at his file and learns that he has been transferred from another high school to her school and class because of disciplinary problems. Ben Simon is an intelligent, cynical young man who tries to provoke his teacher. In their eyes he is a bit "crazy", but not criminal. When he is arrested by the police while attempting a break-in, Katharina takes care of her student. It turns out that he didn't want to break in, just take photos.

Despite the actually happy marriage of Katharina and Ulrich, tensions are inevitable. Ulrich, who is currently working on three important projects and has less and less time for his family, is very successful in his job. The advances made by Ben Katharina are not inconvenient and in the end she falls in love with her student and also sleeps with him, although she knows that her daughter also loves Ben. But Ben fascinates her with his mature, but also romantic nature, yet she is aware of her responsibility and does not want to continue the relationship. Since she has just been promoted to the new headmistress of the school and some students have found out their relationship, she confesses to her husband the fling. He and her daughter Jule are deeply disappointed. When Katharina finds out that she is pregnant, her husband gives her a choice: either she should give the child away - or she can go, which she initially does and moves to a hotel.

Ben also takes the consequences and leaves school. Katharina manages to get him back and leaves school in his place. Ulrich thinks about it and is reconciled with his wife.

Production notes

The film premiered on January 18, 2000 on Sat.1 .

reception

Reviews

Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv says sobering: “'Love makes us fools', it says in the TV movie by Zoltan Spirandelli. The forbidden love as a subject has also thrown the two authors somewhat off their concept. With a dramaturgy that allows you to set the clock, they have packed all imaginable clichés on the topic into the TV movie. It's a shame about Schweighöfer and Mitterhammer. "

The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm see it a bit more positively and say: "Director Zoltan Spirandelli and the actors credibly and sensitively portray an 'impossible' love."

"(TV) melodrama about an established, happily married teacher who falls in love with one of her students and becomes pregnant by him."

Award

The main actor Matthias Schweighöfer received the German Television Prize in the category of sponsorship award in 2000 for his role as Ben Simon .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Start Dates for Prohibited Desires - I Love My Student . In: IMDb.de. Retrieved December 14, 2013 .
  2. Rainer Tittelbach : Marion Mitterhammer & Matthias Schweighöfer: female faculty loves students Film criticism at tittelbach.tv, accessed on November 6, 2016.
  3. Forbidden Desire - I love my student on tvspielfilm.de; Retrieved December 14, 2013.
  4. Forbidden Desires - I love my student. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used