What if death do us part?
| Movie | |
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| Original title | What if death do us part? |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2008 |
| length | 87 minutes |
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| Director | Ulrike Grote |
| script | Ulrike Grote, Ilona Schultz |
| production | Ilona Schultz |
| music | Jörn Kux |
| camera |
Ute Freund , Roland Fritzenschaft |
| cut |
Gisela Gondolatsch , Monika Schindler |
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What if death do us part? is a German feature film from 2008. Directed by Ulrike Grote , who is responsible for the script as well as Ilona Schultz.
The film is about the fate of eight people who gradually all arrive at the main location of the film, the Hamburg city hospital. The main theme is death, which appears in the film in a wide variety of ways. However, the film is also about falling in love and having to let go.
action
Nele Wolff is a nurse in the municipal hospital and suffers from being unable to help a child during an emergency operation, so that he dies. It reminds her too much of the death of her own son who drowned four years ago. Her marriage also suffers as a result, so that her husband Paul, who works with her in the same hospital, has found a fun-loving friend. She is also married and enjoying the affair.
Sophie Hellwig, mother of three boys and always under stress, is married to Joachim Hellwig. But the busy journalist is always on the go and rarely at home. So she got in touch with Dr. Paul Wolff admitted. Just as the two meet in a hotel room, Joachim returns from Moscow unannounced. Since Sophie is not there, he faces his three children alone and clashes with his eldest son Anton, who accuses him of never being there for his sons.
Hanns Dunkel works as a nurse in the municipal hospital and still lives with his mother Marie. The old lady has dementia and her son is thinking of taking her to a nursing home. He is friends with his colleague, the nurse Birte Gold, but has never admitted his affection for her until now. After his mother runs away unsupervised, he has made up his mind that things can no longer go on like this. But first he has to find her first.
Sophie Hellwig collapses unexpectedly after her last night of love and has to be taken to the city hospital. Nele Wolff immediately notices that her husband, who brought the patient to the clinic, spent the night with her. The examination reveals that Sophie has a brain tumor. When Paul gives her a comforting hug, Joachim Hellwig walks in through the door. Both clash and fight. Only when Paul's wife arrives do they end the fight. Nele speaks to her husband, who tells her that he needs a woman to talk to. With all the grief, she must also think of him and that life goes on.
Marie Dunkel had gone to her husband's grave in the cemetery that night and had to hang up. When she hears a suspicious noise a short distance away, she looks and finds an unconscious man. Apparently he tried to poison himself with pills and alcohol. Marie makes sure that he is brought to the city hospital and accompanies him. Once there, she meets nurse Birte Gold, who recognizes Marie immediately and calls Hanns Dunkel so that he can stop looking for his mother. Marie simply claims that she was needed and that the patient would be her friend. In an unobserved moment, she leaves the hospital with the man, whom she pushes in front of her in a wheelchair.
Sophie and Joachim Hellwig get together again due to the serious illness.
Nele and Paul Wolff split for an indefinite period of time during which Nele wants to try to come to terms with her grief.
Marie Dunkel moves in with her suicide and Hanns Dunkel finally with Birte Gold.
Reviews
“Artfully, but never artificially, Grote and Schultz weave a narrative carpet from the various strands on which one likes to float through the various life stories. Time and again moments of playful cheerfulness alternate with melodramatic moments. The most touching scene, the heart of the film, is a long monologue by the doctor who confides in a terminally ill patient and confronts the trauma of infant death. It is not only because of this wonderfully played sequence that Janna Striebeck is the most formative figure in the film alongside Monica Bleibtreu, who was wonderful here again, who died in May. "
“ What when death do us part is particularly impressive because of the rare ease with which a staccato of blows of fate is assembled here. Figures that appear authentic are faced with the most elementary questions. Instead of emotional drudgery and rhetoric of dismay, magically believable moments emerge from this, including some in which pain and happiness meet seamlessly. "
Awards
- Golden Beaver (main prize) and Audience Award Audience Beaver at the Biberach Film Festival 2008
- Nomination for the North German Film Award 2008 in the category Best Screenplay
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Kino.de: What if death do us part? , accessed November 28, 2009
- ↑ Seven Exciting Silent Contemplations of the End , accessed November 28, 2009
- ↑ Goldener Biber goes to Ulrike Grote , Schwaebische.de of November 2, 2008, accessed on January 14, 2017
- ↑ North German Film Prize 2008 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Schleswig-Holstein.de, accessed on November 26, 2009
Web links
- What if death do us part? in the Internet Movie Database (English)