Four are having a child

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Movie
Original title Four are having a child
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2015
length 89 minutes
Rod
Director Matthias Steurer
script Volker Krappen
production Claudia Krebs
Volker Krappen
music Michael Klaukien
Andreas Lonardoni
camera Maximilian Lips
cut Dagmar Pohle
occupation

Four kriegen ein Kind is a German TV film by Matthias Steurer from 2014 . The first broadcast of the film was on March 6, 2015 on ARD . In the film, Christina Hecke and Friederike Kempter star in front of the camera as a lesbian couple and Marc Hosemann and Christian Näthe as a homosexual couple.

action

The literature professor Neele and the dental technician Steff live in Hamburg in a civil partnership. They fulfill their desire to have children by means of artificial insemination. However, there is a mix-up in the reproductive medicine practice of your gynecologist. The producer is not the selected young sperm donor without father ambitions, but the friendly sports journalist Kalle Schmitz. Kalle is also planning to start a family with his partner, real estate agent Jens. Since the surrogate mother of the male couple cancels at the last moment, the gay couple sees the mix-up as an opportunity. In any case, you want to actively experience the pregnancy and also be there for “your” child afterwards. However, Steff and Neele are against raising the child together with the male couple. Neele tries to shake them off with a contract. For them, Kalle and Jens are just two gay philistines with completely different attitudes towards life. With all approaches, therefore, there is always more friction. Jens thinks Neele is cold-hearted and has concerns about entrusting her with a child. However, it soon becomes clear to the unequal team of four that this is not about personal sensitivities. It is about a child and its future and there is not conflict, but willingness to cooperate. Over time, there is more and more mutual trust and a real "four" feeling.

Steff's parents do not get on well with the situation of having a grandchild from a female couple. Thereupon Steff, deeply injured, considers breaking off contact with her parents. A little later she miscarries. Not only Steff, but also Kalle is devastated. In order to process the situation better, Kalle takes refuge in his religiosity . Jens takes a more pragmatic view of the whole thing and is thinking about using a surrogate mother again. However, Kalle sees this as betrayal. Steff doesn't want to know anything about a new pregnancy either. However, she speaks to her mother and now hears from her how proud she is of her daughter.

The four get particularly close in their respective crises. Matters that Steff cannot discuss with Neele, she discusses with Kalle, and Jens also finds a good listener in Neele. From this the situation develops that Neele and Jens now see themselves as future parents. In a kind of self -experiment - Neele inserts Jens' sperm with the help of a syringe - the two candidates "sacrifice" each other and Neele actually becomes pregnant.

Nine months later there are four happy parents and a patchwork rainbow family.

reception

Audience ratings

The first broadcast on March 6, 2015 reached 2.56 million viewers, which corresponds to a market share of 8.2 percent.

Reviews

Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv said: “'Four have a child' is not just an unobtrusive, loosely staged comedy about a rainbow family in joyful anticipation. At the same time it is a film that deals seriously and dramatically cleverly with this topic, explores it in depth and at the same time nonchalantly, and is very entertaining. It would be a nice side effect if the film, through normality, as it tells of same-sex love - albeit almost without sex - could also dispel possible prejudices against gay and lesbian couples who would like to have a child. "

Ulrich Feld commented on the Neue Deutsche Presse : “At first the film doesn't want to get going for long stretches, which is mainly due to the character drawing. Both with the lesbian couple Steff / Neele and with the gay couple Kalle / Jens, one partner is very emotional and the other is more head-driven. Neele is also obsessed with control, which can hardly be described as original. ”Only almost at the end“ does the film gain depth, the characters gain contour. [...] And then the film even manages to put in a really nice ending. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ TV film “Vier kriegen ein Kind” , tittelbach.tv, accessed on March 26, 2015.
  2. ^ Rainer Tittelbach : Hecke, Kempter, Hosemann, Näthe, Krappen, Steurer. “Four times loved is better” at tittelbach.tv , accessed on March 13, 2018.
  3. ↑ Ulrich Feld: Too little bite at fnp.de, accessed on March 13, 2018.