Eine fremde Tochter

Alongside Wanja Mues, Mark Waschke (known from DARK) plays a gay husband who, after a tragic accident, is faced with raising his 15-year-old daughter (great: Hannah Schilling). Problems such as unresolved grief, homophobic tendencies and delusional religiosity are, on the one hand, flat and, on the other hand, woven together in a poetic way.

What I often find annoying about German television films is the obtrusive, over-the-top furnishings: the rhododendron in the front garden blooms provocatively lushly in this television film, and the interior furnishings seem to have been licked and "styled" from the lost QUELLE catalog (probably those who still know it!).

But the acting performances are reconciling, and the pictures from Hamburg (probably shot in 2019) are really very nice. As a malicious tip: Mark Waschke's film character is a former decathlete who, in the course of the plot, actually receives a request from the DSCHUNGELCAMP (I Am A Celebrity - Get Me Out Of Here) on the German private broadcaster RTL, and then comments on it with a sharp tongue. Little moments like that are very refreshing.

Certainly not a masterpiece, but otherwise less successful things are shown on the German television station ARD.