the summer of 1960, Versmold in Westphalia. The German economic miracle is slow to start, but the wounds of the past are far from healed. The young Max Blaschke (Noah Kraus) feels neglected because home all about his earlier, missing brother, who when fleeing from the Russians as a baby in the care of strangers came in 1945 and since then is considered lost.
Max sees the whole thing as opposed to his mother Elisabeth (Katharina Lorenz) and his father Ludwig (Charly Hübner) more pragmatic. As long as the elder brother does not show up, he has his own room by themselves. The heavily occupied postwar drama “The Lost Brother” runs this Wednesday (20.15 clock) in the ARD.
Director Matti Geschonneck (“Boxhagener Platz”) tells his story based on the autobiographical novel “The Lost “the author Hans-Ulrich Treichel (born in 1952) is based, consistent and sensitive from the perspective of the teenage protagonists Max. The lanky boy has a hard time in school, is laughed at by the girl who is hopelessly in love with the pretty neighbor’s daughter and is of the older guys beat. He then fled in his daydreams and has terrified that the missing brother is found. “How can you ever lose his child?” He asks his parents who visibly schwertun with the answer. What happened on the run from the Russians? Hide What secret Ludwig and Elisabeth?
The parents new hope, as the identity of “foundling 2307″ should be clarified. Max’s mother firmly believes that it is her child. His father, who has built up a small grocery store and wants to expand, responded reluctant and evasive. Comfort the mother takes the insightful policeman Frank Rudolf (Matthias Matschke), which always has an open ear for their needs. A delicate Liaison offing
Very accurate designs of the film (Screenplay: Ruth Toma). A genre picture of the early 1960s in West Germany. People can do something again, the first TV, the first car, the growing prosperity. But someone like Max’s father Ludwig is so busy with the reconstruction that it has the past completely displaced. Only the authoritarian structures of the Nazi era seem to persist. Ludwig heckled his son at almost every turn, swing and jazz music, which belongs to the boy at tube radio, are frowned upon as before: “That’s not music”, etch the adults. Since the rebellious Max on the radio turns fortiori loud.
The sometimes static drama about the lost brother can score with strong performers. Charly Hübner (“Bornholmer Strasse”) impresses as taciturn family man who has long been prescribed to rebuild. By contrast, plays Catherine Lorenz (“The End of the Night”) believable deeply wounded mother who may be late free themselves from the trauma of loss.
In an unusually serious role are Matthias Matschke, the wide one Audience mainly from the comedy series “Pastewka” and “Ladykracher” will be aware, in order to guide the sensitive Frauenversteher with überkorrektem side parting, doing everything possible to search for the foundling to success. And of course one must praise the child actor Noah Kraus that he the fragile emotions of a young insistently reminds us in the narrow-minded economic wonderland. A little fermenting in the boy already the rebellion that has driven the youth in 1968 on the barricades.
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