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Poster This Miniseries with 6 episodes would be available on Netflix from 7. Sep. 23. It's a German production. The story based on a book from Romy Hausmann.

Plot
Lena lives in complete isolation together with the two children Hannah and Jonathan in a highly secured home. They eat their meals, go to the toilet and to bed at precisely prescribed times. As soon as he enters the room, they line up to show their hands. They obey to everything he says. Until the young woman manages to escape. After a near fatal car accident, she is hospitalized, accompanied by Hannah. But the true extent of this nightmare is revealed with the arrival of Lena's parents at the hospital the same night. They have been desperately searching for their missing daughter for almost 13 years.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt20863760/

Trailer (English Subs)


Screencaps Other stuff
Hannah is played by Naila Schuberth (See more details about her in my post of Bird Box: Barcelona ->https://www.first-loves.com/forums/view ... hp?t=15170) Jonathan is played by Sammy Schrein

I will definitely watch it! It's on my schedule.

Thanks for finding this mini series, Nasuada.

As I can see, you already changed your avartar.

ghost wrote: Wed Aug 16, 2023 7:57 pm As I can see, you already changed your avartar.

Yep, I do. It's the first time that I using a German Angel in a forum, so it's a special one. Well, if I knowing from flm in the Time of Systemsprenger or Dark blue girl (Die Tochter), I'm sure that I would choose Helena Zengel

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Wowza! I usually despise most German productions due to the mediocre writing and acting (it’s either over-The-Top or too realistic in that they will also film boring stuff instead of focusing on telling a well paced story) - but this looks actually really well done! I think I’m gonna give this a try. Hopefully it doesn’t get too dark..

Anyone interested in the NZB‘s for this can message me (can’t post nzbs publicly from private forums).

Well... I watched all 6 episodes in 2 evenings. It really catched me. Very well done and our little actress was really the highlight in this series... sometimes a little frightening.

This came up recommended to me, as well. I watched a preview and trailer, looks like something I might enjoy. I am glad to hear that Naila is the highlight. The trailer and images made me uncertain how much screentime she would realistically have. But the show is called Liebes Kind, after all.

I am also interested to read your somewhat more "regionally local" perspective on German/European productions, goku. Whenever I see foreign (to me) productions, especially if I've never heard of them, they always appear well-made and well-performed. Perhaps the flaws you readily see are masked to me due to not directly understanding much of the dialogue. Or perhaps I am used to a lower standard.

Either way, we do seem predisposed to being more critical of media created closer to our localities. There are some larger budget releases from my area that truly make me shudder, or worse, make me a tad embarrassed when I learn that these movies may be released overseas and there will be other people looking at them.

I'm not goku, but I will talk a bit about German productions.

I personally think, that German productions are often underrated and just an little fact, some big and famous US productions are also produced in Germany in Babelsberg like The hunger Games, Inglourious Basterds, Asteroid City... (see lot more on: https://www.studiobabelsberg.com/en/references/film/). But all that productions are not initiated by German movie makers.

Anyway... the problem is a bit more complex. A german Showmoderator Jan Böhmermann create a show called "Das Problem der deutschen Filmlandschaft" (The problem of the German film landscape / Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ie8vV-p1OL4) and he talking a lot about the problem He named three facts around the "important content" who I can confirm around most German movies who are running in the cinema. Most of them where very successfully.
1. "An asshole with an heart of gold found the big love" (It's like Kokowääh, Fuck You Ghöte, Keinohrhasen...)
2. "Young people get tragic diagnosis and go on a trip" (Like Vincent will Meer, Knocking on heavens door, Der geilste Tag)
3. "Nazi, World War, GDR" (Like, Sophie Scholl, Das Boot, Der Untergang...)

So if you are watching the topics you will recognize that there is not so much what can be special or outstanding, because it's often the same again and again and again.

Another big problem about Böhmermann talking, is the film grant.
I will try to to write it down, what's going on in this area:
German film funding consists of many different film funding bodies to which one can apply for funds. As is usual for Germany, there is of course a lot of bureaucracy involved. According to his statements, it sometimes takes up to 7 years to get funding.
But unfortunately it goes even further. The German Film Fund primarily wants to fund films where they believe that many people go to the German cinema to simply collect money. But this calculation does not work, because hardly anyone wants to see a film in the cinema that was produced in Germany.
Then there is the fact that the German TV stations are also behind the film promoters, including of course private TV stations that have their own ideas about what we film lovers should like. The Medienbord Berlin/Brandenburg follows a completely different path. Here, a single person (Kirsten Niehuus) decides what is promoted and has done so for 17 years.

These were now a few excerpts from the show.

Exceptional German films like to go their very own way. In the case of the film "Die Königin von Niendorf" (The Queen of Niendorf), the company completely dispensed with public funding and relied solely on donations, specifically relying on actors on loan and foregoing salaries.
The film is considered one of the best children's films in Germany for a long time.

However, there are also the odd lapses in traditional film funding. This is what happened (by mistake?) with "Systemsprenger". A film that completely broke the typical rules of German film and (surprise) was totally successful.

Personally, however, I continue to believe in German film and always have the hope that, in addition to all the ratings nonsense, special films will also be released. My feeling is that this usually works quite well with children's films, which are not nearly as well advertised as the "hopeful box office hits". Whereby also with the child film a few black creations exist like e.g. Bibi & Tina of Detlev Buck or the recent Hanni & Nanni films those in all their parts again and again the absolutely same pattern exhibit because it already worked well with the first film. So the theme is completely exhausted until no one can stand it anymore.

ghost wrote: Fri Sep 08, 2023 11:07 pm Well... I watched all 6 episodes in 2 evenings. It really catched me. Very well done and our little actress was really the highlight in this series... sometimes a little frightening.

I have now 2 Episodes left. I'm very surprised how good it is. Everything made very exciting. The only criticism I have so far are some logic errors. For example, when the police simply went to the military area, I thought "Yes, of course, that can only go wrong".

Thank you for your insights into German film production, Nasuada. I admit I do not watch anywhere near a large proportion of films from Germany, but I DO know that much of what I HAVE seen from almost all eras (dating back to the silents) is fantastic. I am fortunate in having the advantage of some very selective curation, and there are German films and German filmmakers that rank among my lifetime favorites. (Many are not even FLM-type movies, too.)

But as for the not-so-good movies everywhere out there from any country ... in a general sense, I am a great believer in what science fiction writer Theodore Sturgeon said: "Ninety percent of everything is crap."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law#