What really matters

Movie
Original title	What really matters
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	2011
length	87 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Hans Werner
script	Andreas Knaup
production	Hans-Werner Honert Jochen Karl Franke
music	Paul Vincent Gunia Oliver Gunia
camera	Pure louder
cut	Claudia Fröhlich
occupation

What really counts is an 87-minute feature film special from the German doctor series In allerfreund from 2011.

background

The feature film forms a crossover between the television series In allerfreund and Veterinarian Dr. Mertens . Through this crossover, In all Friendship and veterinarian Dr. Mertens together with Marienhof , Schloss Einstein , In allerfreund - The young doctors , cheerful to fatal: Ex-files , Lindenstrasse and Forbidden Love - a series universe .

production

Was produced What really counts in 2011 in Leipzig and the surrounding area. A special location was the Leipzig Zoo , which served as the backdrop for the scenes with Dr. Mertens served.

Saxonia Media acted as the production company on behalf of MDR television and ARD Degeto . Jana Brandt took over the overall management .

Charisma

The first broadcast of the feature film took place on December 27, 2011 on the 8:15 pm slot of the first .

action

Dr. Roland Heilmann, chief physician of Surgery at the Leipzig Sachsenklinik , visited with his family to Leipzig Zoo to attend to an animal sponsor celebration. The Weller family has taken on the sponsorship of a baby puma . On the fringes of this celebration, the Heilmanns meet the zoo veterinarian Dr. Susanne Mertens, who wishes you a nice day at the zoo. However, Dr. Heilmann, who had to carry out a lengthy emergency operation during his previous night shift, received a phone call shortly afterwards: There seems to be complications with a patient. The chief doctor then makes his way to the clinic, but has to avoid an inattentive pedestrian at a traffic light while driving there. While the doctor can still maneuver his car past, the Weller family car driving behind him crashes into the head doctor's car and is thrown off a bridge. The father succumbs to his injuries at the scene of the accident; the mother, Stefanie Weller, is brought to the Saxony clinic with serious injuries.

Dr. Heilmann, who was also supported by his colleague and friend Dr. Martin Stein could not be dissuaded from leading Stefanie Weller's emergency operation, collapsed in the operating room . Dr. Stein has to stop the operation so as not to endanger the mother's life and senior physician Dr. Kathrin Globisch puts her in an artificial coma . At the same time, ward doctor Dr. Philipp Brentano and attending physician Dr. Rolf Kaminski Tim, the son of the Wellers. He is only slightly injured, but appears to be severely traumatized and suffering from retrograde amnesia .

The public prosecutor's office initiates investigations against the chief physician, who blames himself: Tim Weller could become an orphan because an operation on his mother would lead to serious complications. Clinic director Prof. Dr. Simoni steps in, pulls his guilty chief doctor away from the operating room and suggests that he take a few days off. Since none of the witnesses heard Dr. Heilmann can confirm the course of the accident described, the public prosecutor assumes that the doctor was overtired after the long night shift. He is facing charges; there is speculation in the press about the background to the accident. Dr. Heilmann visits Tim Weller's grandmother Sandra Weller. She had not had any contact with her son for several years and did not even know that she had a grandson.

Meanwhile, senior physician Dr. Martin Stein freshly in love: he enjoys his happiness with Julia Benning, an event manager and winner of the Leipzig Innovation Prize. What the senior doctor has no idea: his new girlfriend was the inattentive pedestrian who caused the accident. When she learns from Martin Stein how big the accident was, she decides to surrender. However, she is held off by her friend Bianca Schürer, who shows her the effects of her actions on her career. She could write off her position as head of city marketing after such a confession.

Tim Weller suddenly disappears from the clinic. The clinic staff suspect that he would like to see his parents. Since the doctors had so far not told him what happened and the boy suffers from amnesia, he does not know what situation he really is in. While Ingrid Rischke and Hans-Peter Brenner are looking in the Wellers' apartment, Dr. Heilmann in the zoo after little Tim. He meets the zoo veterinarian Dr. Susanne Mertens. During a conversation, the two doctors came up with the idea of animal-assisted therapy to overcome Tim's amnesia. But the situation soon changes: Ingrid Rischke and Hans-Peter Brenner have found Tim and are on their way back to the clinic with him. When they unexpectedly have to brake because of a pedestrian, Tim's memory suddenly comes back; however, after a panic attack he stops talking.

As senior physician Dr. Kathrin Globisch then tells her chief doctor about a painted picture of her daughter, who was staying with her kindergarten group near the scene of the accident, the chief doctor is certain that he was distracted by a balloon. He asks his senior physician, Dr. Martin Stein to represent him until further notice and Prof. Dr. Simoni about his suspension. However, the latter decides to only give his chief doctor a leave of absence.

At the same time, Pia Heilmann makes her way to Sandra Weller. She feels reminded of the time after Christina Buchmann's death: at that time she had found out about Lisa, Roland and Christina's illegitimate child. Now Pia Tim's grandmother wants to talk into conscience so that she can take care of the boy. While Dr. Heilmann met the boy together with Dr. Stein to Dr. Mertens to the zoo, the wife of the head doctor manages to convince the grandmother that she will look after her grandson. With this, in turn, the animal-assisted therapy worked and he was talking to the people around him again.

A little later, Stefanie Weller wakes up from the coma and Dr. Roland Heilmann is about to change his statement about the course of events. However, when he and his family attended the balloon festival, which was organized by Julia Bennig, everything changed again. Tim Weller and his grandmother are also present and after Julia Benning sees the boy, she decides to call Dr. Heilmann telling the truth. Suddenly, little Tim also remembers a crucial feature: He recognizes Julia Benning's bag, which contains several balloons as a motif, as the bag of the pedestrian from the accident. While Julia Benning wants to make her way to the police, Dr. Martin Stein talks about his girlfriend's secret and the two finally separate.

In the final scene you can see Pia and Dr. Roland Heilmann go on a balloon ride together.

occupation

main actor

actor	Role name	role
Thomas Rühmann	Roland Heilmann	Head of Surgery, husband of Pia Heilmann; Father of Lisa Schroth; Grandfather of Jonas Heilmann
Hendrikje Fitz	Pia Heilmann	Wife of Dr. Roland Heilmann; Stepmother of Lisa Schroth; Grandmother of Jonas Heilmann
Isabell Gerschke	Julia Benning	Event manager ; Winner of the Innovation Prize of the City of Leipzig Life partner of Dr. Martin Stein
Bernhard Bettermann	Martin Stein	Senior assistant medical surgery son of Otto Stein; Partner of Julia Benning; Father of Marie Stein
Rebecca Immanuel	Sandra Weller	Stefanie Weller's mother-in-law; Grandmother of Tim Weller
Bennet Meyer	Tim Weller	Son of Stefanie Weller
Udo Schenk	Rolf Kaminski	Attending physician ; Specialist in urology and surgery
Andrea Kathrin Loewig	Kathrin Globisch	Senior physician in anesthesiology and surgery
Elisabeth Lanz	Susanne Mertens	Zoo veterinarian
Sanne Schnapp	Bianca Schürer	Event manager friend of Julia Benning
Michael Trischan	Hans-Peter Brenner	Nurse
Jutta Kammann	Ingrid Rischke	Head nurse partner of Prof. Dr. Gernot Simoni
Dieter Bellmann	Gernot Simoni	Clinic director Ingrid Rischke's partner
Ursula Karusseit	Charlotte Gauss	Wife of Otto Stein
Rolf Becker	Otto Stein	Husband of Charlotte Gauss
Arzu Bazman	Arzu knight	Nurse wife of Dr. Philipp Brentano
Thomas Koch	Philipp Brentano	Ward doctor; Specialist in surgery husband of Arzu Ritter
Alexa Maria Surholt	Sarah Marquardt	Administrative Director

supporting cast

actor	Role name	role
Maren Gilzer	Yvonne Habermann	Nurse
René Hofschneider	Hagen Dietrich	Prosecutor
Angelina Häntsch	Stefanie Weller	Mother of Tim Weller
Anthony Petrifke	Jonas Heilmann	Student grandsons of Pia and Dr. Roland Heilmann
Ella Zirzow	Lisa Schroth	Student daughter of Dr. Roland Heilmann
Luna Rösner	NN	little girl
Uta Schorn	Barbara Grigoleit	Secretary of Prof. Dr. Gernot Simoni
Cheryl Shepard	Elena Eichhorn	Specialist in surgery and urology; Head of the emergency room
Henriette Zimmeck	Marie Stein	Student daughter of Dr. Martin Stein; Granddaughter of Otto Stein

reception

criticism

Rainer Tittelbach ( tittelbach.tv ) drew a consistently negative conclusion on the series special in his review of the 90-minute inflated "In-all-friendship" special without added value and understood it as "conceptually and dramatically completely unsuccessful". He criticized that "[e] in an ensemble with well over 20 members [...] for the dramaturgy of a 90-minute film [too big]", the "so-called 'braid dramaturgy" "is not a film, but exclusively an" endless format “Passe and“ emotions [...] are not drawn across the film in large arcs, but rather established scene by scene ”. Tittelbach also noted that although all the characters are coincidentally related to one another, "this dramaturgical setting [k] has a correspondence in its cinematic appearance". The main point of criticism of Tittelbach is that the content of a normal In all Friendship episode, in his opinion, was simply pressed into a feature film format.

“What cannot be verbalized does not exist in this story. The dialogues are at the heart of “In all friendship”. Presented in the overemphasized gesture of third-class amateur stage actors, they are at the same time the nail in the coffin of this highly embarrassing banal revue, which has no added value compared to a series episode. Isabell Gerschke, Rebecca Immanuel and Elisabeth Lanz bring at least a touch of Degeto mediocrity into play and the outdoor scenes, above all the passably staged accident scene, optically meet at least series standards. The rest is just underground. "

- Rainer Tittelbach

Audience ratings

The first broadcast of the feature-length series special on December 27, 2011 was followed by 7.47 million viewers. This corresponded to a market share of 22.7%. What really counts that evening was the format with the highest ratings and the highest reach for In aller Freunds for several years was secured. In the target group of 14 to 49 year olds, the film achieved an audience rating of 1.27 million viewers, which meant a market share of 9.9%. Jan Schlüter fromquotemeter.de rated these audience figures and ratings as “top ratings” with an “excellent market share”.

DVD

A DVD with the film was released on May 16, 2012.

Web links

• What really matters in theInternet Movie Database(English)
• What really counts at fernsehserien.de
• What really counts ( Memento from March 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) at daserste.de
• What really counts at mdr.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c} Rainer Tittelbach : TV film "In all friendship - What really matters". For the 90-minute puffed "in-all friendship" special without added value. In: tittelbach.tv. tittelbach.tv , November 28, 2011, accessed December 30, 2015 . 
2. ↑ Jan Schlüter: "In all friendship" special enthusiastic. In: quotenmeter.de. Quotemeter.de , December 28, 2011, accessed December 31, 2015 .