“A love for peace” in the First – Due to overcrowding, sullen – Süddeutsche.de

The ARD epic “A love for peace” tells the story of Bertha von Suttner and Alfred Nobel. The star-studded with Birgit Minichmayr and Sebastian Koch film might be worth seeing if the program makers had not so overloaded it.

By Richard N. Sweet

The best, here it is fortunately not the end: Birgit Minichmayr as Bertha von Suttner and Philipp Hochmair aka Arthur von Suttner, operatives take to the Caucasian steppe. Disowned and dishonored must the young, aristocratic couple lead a new life – stranded in a simple wooden house away from civilization

Every few weeks, two friendly, but certain envoy on horseback to tell the two, which is why. Princess in St. Petersburg, she still can not receive. The front line of the Russo-Ottoman War approaches threatening.

Bertha von Suttner published her first stories, he tries to be a war correspondent. Self-discovery between chopping wood and densities, it’s fun to watch the two here. . Two hippies in the late 19th century

The episode begins in the first quarter of the film; it comes not a moment too soon. Until then, it would have enough reason given wegzuschalten: Bertha von Suttner is there not married yet, as the Countess Kinsky they hired as private secretary to the inventor and millionaire industrialist Alfred Nobel

After the first encounter – a silly scene. in a coffin plays an important role – they sit together now and talk. It is clear to see: he admired, exactly as she admires him. Finally, the Countess says: “Books were for years my best friends Imagine times before, there are no books..”

He: “Without books we were monkeys.”

“What do you have to monkey?”

He: “Nothing I have something against stupidity..”

“. Since we’re at it for two”

Sets for eternity, dull middle-class education to scream. The distinguished Alfred Nobel but is so enamored of the Countess that he acquaintance nachreist her after only twelve days across half of Europe to see her again.

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A love for peace is another epic in the number of large-scale adaptations of historical materials that make a career since the new millennium in the public service broadcasters. In addition Minichmayr and Hochmair First, BR and ORF wait here in the role of Alfred Nobel, Sebastian Koch on.

This is the more remarkable because he rarely occurs in television productions. “This wonderful role, the very good writer and my partner have I made the decision easy,” he says in the accompanying text. As for Minichmayr, Hochmair and cooking, this assessment is accurate, they could make the film a remarkable film. If it were not for the script.

Author Rainer Berg has tried to make three rather complex content easy to consume in just 90 minutes. There is the unrequited love story between Suttner and Nobel, as is the career of Bertha von Suttner; Finally, it is also about the dichotomy of the researcher Nobel between science and morality

The script is based on the play of the author Esther Vilar, “Mr. & amp; Mrs. Nobel.”. Vilar is known for the events to an exciting “So it could have been” weiterzuspinnen.

The efforts of television producers, the amount to condense on fabric and television timely smoothing, however, leads to a “Thus, not it have been. ” It can literally feel as constantly pulling on the strings and dragged to press the big issues in a compatible for the mass audience corset.

That has been visible also in the certainly impressive facilities of the film. However, in an attempt to map the perfect time, it creates an unbelievable hyperreality.

The working title of the film was “Madame Nobel”. That he was not for a movie, about Birgit Minichmayr got very annoyed. “I think this title change very, very bad,” she said in an interview. “I was told, ‘Madame Nobel” was misleading, could be the proper name’ classy ‘read Nobel’ as an adjective ‘. How stupid do you hold the audience actually “There is the problem of the entire production:. As a viewer, you do not feel taken for full

A love for peace ARD, Saturday at 20:15 clock.