In love with Iceland

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Movie
Original title In love with Iceland
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2019
length 90 minutes
Rod
Director Nico summer
script Matthias Dinter
production Ariane Krampe
music Christopher Bremus
camera Guntram Franke
cut Günter Heinzel
occupation

In Love with Iceland is a German TV film by Nico Sommer from 2019 , which was produced for Das Erste on behalf of ARD . The main roles are played by Ann-Kathrin Kramer and Ben Blaskovic as mother and son, Ferdinand Seebacher as a friend of both, and Julia Schäfle as the all-rounder Nina.

action

Claudias Freydank's son Patrick, who wants to marry his girlfriend Anna in Iceland , is informed by Anna, as soon as he has landed in Reykjavik , via smartphone via video chat that she has met someone and can no longer marry him . Claudia is keeping a big secret from her son, because she and his boyfriend Alex have been lovers for several years.

Patrick and Alex are at a loss as to how to deal with the situation - the unusual wedding. Patrick doesn't want Alex to tell his mother about it. Patrick also learns that the start-up he runs with Alex is in trouble. To his surprise, his assistant Nina suddenly appears at his door, which he doesn't seem to be happy about.

Claudia and Alex, who, together with the married couple Gerhardt and Sieglinde Kresters, first went on a tour of Iceland with Troll Tours, whose tour guide does not speak to them, also have a lot to clarify. Alex now also tells Claudia about her son's broken wedding. Since Gerhardt Kresters is very peculiar, he clashes with the non-speaking bus driver and the rickety old bus gives up its ghost. Claudia calls Patrick who is towing the vehicle. Nina is with him.

Claudia and Alex, who made a proposal to Claudia in a romantic grotto , which she spontaneously accepted, are planning to celebrate their wedding in Iceland instead of Patrick and Anna , but Anna still doubts whether the timing would give her son the Telling the truth is the right one.

During the tour, there were disputes between the traveling couple Gerhardt and Sieglinde Kresters at the Strokkur geyser , which culminated in Sieglinde returning the wedding ring to her husband and letting him know that she would file for divorce as soon as they were back in Germany.

When Patrick is then confronted completely unprepared that his mother and his best friend are a couple and want to get married here in Iceland, he is beside himself. He turns away from both of them, but is caught again by Nina, who now finds the courage to confess that she has been in love with him for a long time. Both of them are slowly approaching each other and Patrick not only finds his balance again, but also the solution to the current sales problem of her small start-up company in Germany. But even Alex did not remain idle and asked Gerhardt Kresters, a former tax auditor, for help. The mayor gives his approval for bike rental in Iceland. Sieglinde Kresters is reconciled with her husband again, and Patrick shows his mother and Alex that he is happy about their happiness and, together with Nina, all four jump over a fire, which is supposed to bring happiness to lovers.

Production, background

Strokkur , geyser where part of the action takes place

In Love with Iceland was filmed from September 4th to September 29th 2018 at various locations in Iceland , such as in the capital Reykjavík and at Strokkur , an Icelandic geyser . The eruptions of the geyser occur regularly every ten minutes, sometimes even up to three times in quick succession. The boiling water column can reach a height between 25 and 35 meters.

Ariane Krampe Filmproduktion was responsible for the film .

reception

Audience rating

The film was watched by 3.48 million viewers when it was first broadcast on September 6, 2019, with a market share of 12.4 percent.

criticism

The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm drew the conclusion: In love with Iceland, a “geyser dime novel without eruptions”. They gave the film the worst rating by pointing their thumbs down and said: “A man who does not have a profile picture of his fiancé on his smartphone is surprised. Waterfalls and geysers: the landscape of Iceland is a dream setting. "

The Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung, in the form of reviewer Frank Jürgens, gave the film two out of six possible stars and said that “apart from great outdoor scenery”, “the little TV film 'In love with Iceland' unfortunately has nothing to offer. A shame about the badly under-challenged main and supporting actors from Ann-Kathrin Kramer to Hans-Joachim Heist ”.

Rainer Tittelbach looked at the film on his website tittelbach.tv , gave it 2.5 out of six possible stars and said that “rarely” is “the discrepancy between narrative pretext and cinematic effort, between story and staging as big as with ARD -Friday film 'In Love with Iceland' ”. The "feelings in this drama" remained "external" and were "just asserted like the entire plot with its subplots". The "figures" are "superficial", have "no inner life", are "carriers of commonplaces". The "game" is "stiff", the "dialogues" are "sometimes, the voice-overs embarrassing throughout". The pictures, however, are “impressive, especially since Nico Sommer and his cameraman did not stage them as photo wallpaper”, “but with the wild Nordic freshness of a disguised road movie”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ “Finally Friday in the First”: Shooting deadline for the ARD Degeto television film “Verliebt auf Iceland” (AT) with Ann-Kathrin Kramer, Ben Blaskovic and Hans-Joachim Heist See presseportal.de
  2. ↑ In love on Iceland with crew united
  3. ^ A b Rainer Tittelbach: TV film "In love with Iceland". Ann-Kathrin Kramer, Blaskovic, Seebacher, Dinter, Summer: hour of truths see page tittelbach.tv. Retrieved February 19, 2020.
  4. ↑ In love with Iceland Cf. tvspielfilm.de (including some film images). Retrieved February 19, 2020.
  5. ↑ Frank Jürgens: “In love with Iceland” (Das Erste) is too challenging for everyone. In: Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung , September 6, 2019. Accessed on February 19, 2020.