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Thema: "Das Blaue vom Himmel" - English Topic Fr Jan 21, 2011 8:26 am
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Production Report featured in German Films Quarterly 02/2010
Throughout her life, Marga (Hannelore Elsner) has shown little feeling for her daughter Sofia (Juliane Koehler). But now she reveals fear, wounds and a deep longing for her long-deceased husband Juris. She becomes increasingly lost in her forgetfulness and suddenly demands, like a child, gentleness. It’s an uncomfortable situation for Sofia who, after so long with hardly any contact, must now take care of her mother. And she is sometimes gruff, sometimes funny, now and again completely present or totally absent. And as if she were relieved to be suddenly free from her memories, she relates now and again things from way back when. Things Sofia has never heard of. Sofia’s growing realization that Marga’s past also affects her own gives Sofia the impetus to make a sudden journey with her mother to Riga. This is where Marga grew up and where she married Juris. But the more Sofia learns about her mother, the less clear it becomes who she herself is.
Following his success with such films as Hierankl and Winterreise, Hans Steinbichler with Das Blaue von Himmel (working title: “Promising the Moon”) turns his talents to a time trip into the 1930s (Karoline Herfurth as the young Marga) and 1990s (Hannelore Elsner as the older Marga). The result is a story about the power of love and forgiveness.
“I could hardly believe the quality of the script,” says director Hans Steinbichler. “I was taken by the depth and size of this story, which sets a deeply moving, personal fate and European history on two levels into a glittering, emotional mosaic. But what fascinated me most is the humor, the drama, the happiness that comes from every pore of this story.”
Set to move its audience between laughing and crying, Das Blaue vom Himmel entertains at a high level and unfolds, especially, a moving mother-daughter story. “Both have to travel into their own past and at the same time to another country,” Steinbichler continues, “in order to achieve the perhaps most important moment in human existence: forgiveness.”
It’s no surprise Das Blaue vom Himmel has exactly the right cast to convey these emotions. Juliane Koehler has featured in, among many others, Novemberkind, Effi Briest, Mondkalb und Der Untergang. Hannelore Elsner is one of the stalwarts of contemporary German cinema, whose extensive filmography includes Jakobs Bruder, Vivere, Alles auf Zucker!, Die Unberuehrbare and Die Kommissarin. Karoline Herfurth, equally as solid, can lay claim to Der Vorleser, Das Parfum, Eine andere Liga and Crazy.
As producer Uli Aselmann observes, “This deeply moving and exciting story also reminds you of the lows people experience in life, but in re-conquering the peaks of life it shows the respect with which we can dignify what we have achieved. This is what gives Das Blaue vom Himmel its emotional backbone, moves viewers and gives them something with which to identify.”
