He who loves is right
| Movie | |
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| Original title | He who loves is right |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2002 |
| length | 88 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
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| Director | Matti Geschonneck |
| script | Hannah Hollinger |
| production | ZDF , Arte |
| music | Stephan Zacharias |
| camera | Rudolf Blahacek |
| cut | Petra Heymann |
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He who loves is right is a film drama by director Matti Geschonneck from 2002. The literary film adaptation is based on the autobiographical novel of the same name by the writer Anita Lenz . Iris Berben plays Maja, a woman who has been betrayed by her husband Helmut, played by Robert Atzorn .
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Maja likes her life in the big city of Berlin; she translates textbooks on architecture from Italian into German. Most of the time, her husband Helmut, with whom she has been married for 27 years, can only be seen on the weekends in Berlin, since he is in Tübingen during the week, where he pursues his professional activity as a literature professor.
Helmut is celebrating his 55th birthday together with Maja, as well as their long grown up son Andrej and his girlfriend Monika in his vacation home in Tuscany . Andrej takes the occasion to tell his mother that Monika is expecting a child from him. Through a thoughtless remark by Majas to Helmut, he also learns about it and does not seem to be particularly enthusiastic. Helmut is concerned that Andrej cannot maintain a family with his rather modest income - since he makes a living as an artist.
Since Helmut, as he claims, has work to do in Tübingen, he starts the return journey by train, accompanied by Maja, who, however, continues to the shared apartment in Berlin to wait for her husband. Little does Maja know that Helmut is actually flying to Lugano to meet his secret lover Claire, who gave birth to a son on Helmut's birthday.
When Helmut arrives in Berlin a few days later, he and Maja have a dinner date with Bert and Christine, a couple who are friends. Since Bert does not know anything about Helmut's secret affair, he asks him quite frankly over dinner what he was doing in Lugano, because he happened to see him from a distance at the airport. The question in the room is what Helmut takes as an opportunity to tell Maja about Claire and their child on the way home. For Maja, who was completely unprepared, a world collapses. She is considering divorce.
Helmut, who has always loved Maja, does not want to leave her under any circumstances, which he explains to Claire in no uncertain terms. Of course he will take care of his maintenance for the child, he assures his lover and adds that he felt lonely and suffered during the week because of the separation from Maja. It was only out of this loneliness that a relationship with her came about. But he always loved Maja and never toyed with the idea of giving up his wife.
Back in Berlin, Helmut Maja tells us about his conversation with Claire and that he had decided on her. Maja, however, was already with a lawyer specializing in family law, who pointed out that the maintenance payments to be made by Helmut for his son out of wedlock always take precedence and that she therefore only has a low entitlement to maintenance payments.
Andrej, who now knows how things stand between his parents, urges his mother to stay with his father in any case. Maja finally complies with this request, but sets the condition that Helmut cease all contact with Claire and only concentrate on his family in the future. Helmut is determined to meet this requirement, but shortly before he agrees, he learns from his lover that their son has a deformity on his head and there is a suspicion that he will be handicapped for his entire life. When Maja finds out about this, her demands on Helmut start to falter, because she thinks it is important to be especially there for a disabled child. Fortunately, it later turns out that the child has a deformed head, but that this will not cause any health impairment.
In the end, however, all promises and demands come to nothing, as Maja can no longer find her way back to the old relationship and no longer wants to live with her husband. So Maja moves into the house in Tuscany, where she wants to live alone from now on. Helmut finds out about this from Andrej and sets off for Tuscany. A clarifying conversation takes place in which the couple decide to live together in Berlin from now on. Arrived happily there, Maja learns from her friend Christine that her husband Bert wants to get a divorce.
Production notes
The film produced by Network Movie premiered on December 30, 2002 on German television. The film locations were Berlin and Tübingen , as well as Lugano and Montepulciano .
Reviews
“This is followed by an emotional roller coaster ride with often surprising twists and turns and unaffected dialogues. Conclusion: Smart and gripping: If you tune in, you're right. A film full of nuances. Large!"
“Director Matti Geschonneck, son of DEFA star and Brecht actor Erwin Geschonneck, is a real stroke of luck for the German television game. At regular intervals he makes either exciting or comical films in which he inspires actors like Robert Atzorn or Iris Berben to achieve visible increases in performance. "
The author Dieter Wunderlich was of the opinion that this was a marriage drama "in which no dishes are smashed, but in a differentiated way the turmoil of those involved [is] illustrated who are seriously struggling to find a solution to the conflict". [...] "Iris Berben, Robert Atzorn and Sibylle Canonica play their roles very convincingly."
Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv said: “There is a lot of truth in this chamber play, in which the author just pays homage to the compulsion to speak a little too much.” It went on: “Iris Berben and Robert Atzorn drag the relationship problems rhetorically through this exquisitely photographed marriage drama . ”“ It's a shame ”, be it that Geschonneck's“ life partner Hannah Hollinger apparently [had] the ambition to include as many typical relationship sentences as possible ('You're pulling the rug out from under my feet') in the script. Thus the compulsion to speak destroys some of the emotional truth of this struggle for a relationship ”. There were 4.5 stars out of a possible 6.
Web links
- Those who love, law has in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Whoever loves is right (TV Movie 2002) - Release Info - IMDb. In: imdb.com. Retrieved June 10, 2015 .
- ↑ He who loves is right (TV Movie 2002) - Filming Locations - IMDb. In: imdb.com. Retrieved June 10, 2015 .
- ↑ End credits.
- ↑ He who loves is right - film review - film - TV SPIELFILM. In: tvspielfilm.de. Retrieved June 10, 2015 .
- ↑ TV Week, July 13-19: ARTE lets it bleed - Feuilleton - FAZ. In: faz.net. Retrieved June 10, 2015 .
- ↑ Matti Geschonneck: Anyone who loves is right at dieterwunderlich.de
- ↑ Rainer Tittelbach : TV film "Whoever loves is right" Berben, Atzorn, Canonica, Hollinger, Geschonneck and the struggle for love at tittelbach.tv, accessed on May 27, 2017.