Back to happiness (film)
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| Original title | Back to happiness |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2010 |
| length | 90 minutes |
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| Director | Wolfgang Dinslage |
| script | Mathias Klaschka |
| production | Tanja Ziegler |
| music | Tomas Kahane |
| camera | Konstantin Kröning |
| cut | Brigitta Tauchner |
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The German feature film Back to Happiness from 2010 with Susanna Simon in the leading role moves between comedy and drama. Produced by SAT 1 , the time travel television film uses motifs from Back to the Future and Peggy Sue Married , two films from the 1980s.
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Ines, a woman around forty, is dissatisfied with her life. She is married to the loveless Falko, who humiliates and betrays her. During her work as a simple clerk in a hardware store, her clumsiness caused the death of the successful architect Hauke, with whom she was in the same school class. Then she is thrown back through a time tunnel to 1986, where she not only meets her sad father, to whom she pretends to be an aunt from America, but also herself as a teenager.
Because Ines was already in a relationship with Falko at this age, she does everything to change the rest of her life so that she does not end up as the "failure" she later became. On the one hand, she aims to separate her youthful embodiment from Falko, who was already making out with other girls back then, and on the other hand, she tries to couple her widowed father with the nice neighbor Frau König. She spends a happy night with a cranky physicist who shows her the constellation in which she can return to the future. She strongly advises the young Hauke, who actually feels called to be an architect, but is dutifully prepared to take over his father's car repair shop, to follow his true career aspiration. At the same time, she tells him not to go to the hardware store on that day in the future. When the right constellation arises, it can be transferred back to the future. Having arrived today, she realizes that she has become a successful business woman and that her father lives happily with Mrs. König. She rushes to the hardware store to prevent Hauke's death at the last second, which this time would have been caused by Falko. The relationship with Hauke completes her happiness in life.
Reviews
The Berliner Zeitung certified the strip as having "a half-baked story, but good-humored staff, funny entanglements, original sayings". The program magazine TV Spielfilm gave a similar verdict , which discovered “cultivated nostalgia and fun”. The sometimes inconsistent logic doesn't matter: "Just hum along to the 80s hits and remember your own youthful sins ...!"
Web links
- Back to happiness in the Internet Movie Database (English)