Welcome to the country
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| Original title | Welcome to the country |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2013 |
| length | 90 minutes |
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| Director | Tim Trageser |
| script | Laila Stieler |
| production | Wolfgang Cimera |
| music | Andreas Weidinger |
| camera | Eckhard Jansen |
| cut | Gisela Castronari |
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Willkommen auf dem Land is a German television film by Tim Trageser from 2013 with Senta Berger and Günther Maria Halmer in the leading roles.
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The Berlin couple Rita and Leo visit a house in a village in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . Rita had always dreamed of a life in the country. Leo, on the other hand, is not very enthusiastic about her idea. Only when the motivational speaker is about to be retired does he get involved, hoping that the move will enable him to take over a branch of his management consultancy. But in his place a younger colleague gets the post. He then tells his friend Peter that an acquaintance needs a job. So he learns that the local employment office is looking for a motivational speaker for long-term unemployed people who are difficult to place. He finally gets the job, but pretends to Rita that he runs his old employer's branch.
Meanwhile, Rita tries to make friends with the neighbors, but is rejected as a West German newcomer. Because she feels lonely, she invites Leo's daughter Anna and granddaughter Elisa to join her. Anna's invitation comes at just the right time. She is supposed to lead an art exhibition in Zurich and would like to stay with Rita and Leo for so long. However, 13-year-old and overweight Elisa is proving difficult. She just plays video games most of the time and would rather have pizza than Rita's homemade food. At the welcome evening, to which Rita has invited all the neighbors, only two neighbors appear, an older, somewhat simple-minded and an eccentrically eccentric one. After they say goodbye, Rita and Leo have an argument. Rita complains that she always moved for him and his career, that she kept losing friends and never had a child of her own.
The next day the former mayor of the town and the most dismissive of the neighbors brings Elisa back to Rita indignantly. The girl had deliberately soiled her laundry that was hung up to dry. Rita gives Elisa a lecture, whereupon Elisa runs away. Worried Rita calls Leo, who is still on the road, and together they go in search of Elisa. Two neighbors help them and they finally find the girl in a barn, frightened. Thereupon Elisa is more friendly and helps, skilled as she is, to clean the drain and with Leo's new and mobile lawnmower to do the gardening.
On the occasion of Leo's birthday, Peter and his wife Brigitte come to visit. Leo, who meanwhile complains to the head of the employment office that his unemployed seminar participants were not given enough funding for the repair of the village pub, can reach the branch of the management consultancy just before Rita, Peter and Brigitte, where they want to surprise him. However, Peter knows about Leo's actual job and urges him to tell Rita the truth. The seminar participants also come to Leo's birthday party with home-baked cakes and happily inform Leo that thanks to him they have received sufficient funding for the village pub. Leo asks her not to tell Rita anything about his work. However, the former mayor also appears and would like to thank him for the service he has rendered to the community. Finally Rita learns that Leo has lied to her the whole time. Outraged by this breach of trust, she drives away in the car. Leo and Elisa follow her on the lawnmower and find her on a remote path. Finally they drive back together. Anna then comes back from Zurich and wants to pick up Elisa again. Before leaving, Anna, who once had a drug problem and was subsequently put on the street by Leo, makes up with her father. Leo and Rita then go swimming in the nearby lake. However, Leo does not have swimming trunks with him and Rita encourages him to bathe naked, as it is not a problem in the East and nudism . He then stands naked in front of his surprisingly prudish neighbors.
background
Willkommen auf dem Land was produced by Network Movie on behalf of ZDF . The shooting took place from May 3rd to June 6th 2012. The film premiered on July 19, 2013 on arte and was seen by 1.16 million viewers (market share: 5.1%). When it was broadcast on ZDF on September 12, 2013, 4.51 million viewers tuned in, which corresponded to a market share of 15.4% and gave the station the win of the day.
Reviews
“A leisurely (television) comedy whose not very original script is at least upgraded by the sympathetic, good-humored actors,” said the lexicon of international films . For Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv , Willkommen in the country was “a light, wonderfully fluid summer (tragic) comedy staged by Tim Trageser”. The plot has "[l] auny punch lines, clever gags & conversations with a bitter aftertaste" and is told "fresh from the liver - without genre specifications and accordingly without a too thick final icing". "Hints of melancholy" were "lightly circumnavigated". It is about an "adult comedy [...] that is not looking for a perfect form and in which not everything is trimmed for effectiveness". The fact that everything “seems a bit random” gives the film “a wonderful charm”.
TV Spielfilm also spoke of a "relaxed film with serious tones" and praised "Senta Berger's sensitive game" that goes "to the heart". The conclusion was: "No country vacillations: a village drama with understanding." TV Movie described the film as "[l] adorable" and also stated "serious undertones".
Web links
- Welcome to the land in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Welcome to the country on networkmovie.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Welcome to the country! ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) on networkmovie.de
- ↑ Audience ratings: Super Senta and hard-hit hopefuls . mediabiz.de, September 13, 2013.
- ↑ Welcome to the country. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed February 19, 2020 .
- ↑ cf. tittelbach.tv
- ↑ cf. tvspielfilm.de
- ↑ cf. tvmovie.de ( Memento from July 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive )