Where the way leads me

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Movie
Original title Where the way leads me
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2012
length 89 minutes
Rod
Director Matthias Steurer
script Edda Leesch
production Sophia Aldenhoven ,
Uli Aselmann
music Stephan Massimo
camera Helmut Pirnat
cut Veronika Zaplata
occupation

Where the Path Leads me is a German TV film from 2012 by Matthias Steurer with Johanna-Christine Gehlen and Michael Fitz .

action

Sarah Stein is a successful lawyer. She desperately wants to become a partner in a renowned Frankfurt law firm, so that she invests her whole life in her career. So the ambitious woman is entrusted with a seemingly simple job. The foster father of the winemaker Peter Jahr recently passed away. Since there is no will, the biological son Siggi claims the winery. Every legal letter to Peter was ignored, so that Stein is instructed to hand over the family property to the sole heir. But when she wants to inform Peter of the termination, Peter explains to her that his foster father intended to bequeath the estate to him and that he was with him last summer to change his will in this sense. Although there is a witness for this, the jealous Siggi simply made the will disappear. Siggi has no direct interest in the vineyards. He wants to demolish the property in order to be able to build a classy wellness hotel on the property. Peter did not know about the legal letters because one of his foster sons had taken them from the mail. As a former lawyer, however, it is clear to him that no judge would put him on the street with his three foster sons.

Sarah is not very interested in Peter's concerns and just wants to finish the job. Unfortunately, her sports car is defective and is in the workshop, so she stays on site for the time being and rents a pension. She uses this emergency stay to voluntarily make Peter give in. Since she has no luck with that, she goes on and tries to get Peter into a bad reputation at the youth welfare office. A prank that Peter's foster sons play on her comes in handy. Sarah takes the opportunity to have custody withdrawn from the winemaker. Nothing would then stand in the way of the eviction suit.

The lawyer seems to have reached her goal, but she gradually gets scruples because she hasn't considered what she is doing to the children with it. They love their foster father and their home. After getting into conversation with Peter's youngest foster son Theo, she is reminded of her own childhood. He also confides in her that he hid the attorney's letters because he knows from his past that he had to leave his foster family every time such letters came in. And he doesn't want to leave here. But Sarah's ad has already set the mill of the youth welfare office in motion and Theo of all people should be the first to move into a new foster family.

On the spur of the moment, the lawyer withdraws her complaint and admits that it may not have been a prank on the children, but that she herself caused the damage. In addition, she suddenly has feelings for this weird lawyer and both discover that they actually have a lot in common, because Sarah herself grew up on a vineyard and knows how to handle the harvesting machine. With their help, the grape harvest can be brought in just in time for a storm. She realizes that there is more to life than career and so she tries to help Peter achieve his rights. Since the legal moves she has initiated cannot be reversed, she urgently advises him to talk to Siggi. He does and in this conversation that Sarah gave him, he asks him, because of the boys, to withdraw his claims. Siggi had secretly been waiting for such an “intimate” conversation between them for a long time, because he had envied Peter all his life, but never told him that. From his point of view, Peter was always the "great" and next to him he could never win. Only now does he learn from Peter that he only imagined it and that his father was quite proud of him. The brothers reconcile and "everything is fine" because Siggi withdraws his claims on the winery. Peter thanks Sarah and she stays with him and the children.

background

The family film was shot from October 14 to November 16, 2010 in Frankfurt am Main and in the Rhineland-Palatinate district of Südliche Weinstrasse .

The building complex of the former Heilsbruck monastery in the community of Edenkoben served as the main location in the Südliche Weinstrasse district .

reception

Audience rating

When it was first broadcast on September 1, 2012 on Das Erste , Wohin der Weg mich leads was seen by 4.60 million viewers, which corresponded to a market share of 14.3 percent.

Reviews

Tilmann P. Gangloff from tittelbach.tv wrote:

“The Friday films by ARD subsidiary Degeto have been significantly better than their reputation for a long time, but this romantic comedy with Michael Fitz and Johanna Christina Gehlen is a real gem, despite the dime novel title. This is what Edda Leesch stands for. The screenwriter, who is primarily known as an actress, has long been a guarantee of good entertainment. Their art is to package trivial stories so enjoyably and quite sophisticated that one rarely has fun below level. "

The evangelisch.de judged:

“Comedy [tells] not just one, but many stories, each of which offers enough material for its own films. [A] film that always provides surprises, especially since every main character also has a background. [~] The secondary characters are also much more than just the usual cues. "

The lexicon of international films rated:

"Undemanding and cheerful (TV) family film that culminates in the reconciliation of the unequal half-brothers."

The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm only gave a medium rating (thumbs straight) and said: "Lawyer (Johanna Christine Gehlen) argues with hobby winemaker (Michael Fitz) ... predictable."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Where the way leads me , crew-united.de
  2. ↑ Location of Heilsbruck Monastery at Openstreetmap Geo 49.28296 / 8.11541 : Own geo research based on the Hambach Castle landmark shown in the film by user: Dirk Schmidt with the help of aerial photo services and Openstreetmap
  3. ↑ Farmer wins half a million at Jauch ( Memento from November 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) stern.de from November 18, 2012
  4. ↑ Tilmann P. Gangloff : “Gehlen, Michael Fitz, Edda Leesch. Despite the penny novel title, a gem! ” , Tittelbach.tv
  5. ↑ Where the path leads me to evangelisch.de, accessed on March 4, 2018.
  6. ↑ Lexicon of international film , in Where the path leads me. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  7. ↑ Film review by TV Spielfilm , accessed on March 4, 2018.