"Alles für meine Tochter", which means "Everything for my daughter", is a German television film from 2013, so not a very old movie, but also far from recent. depending on when you read my review, maybe it already passed the ten-year mark. Like the vast majority of German small screen releases, this one here also runs for slightly under 1.5 hours, so not a very long movie and that is a good thing because the shorter this crap, the better. The director is René Heisig and he will have his 60th birthday this year. He has been active since the early 1990s, but hasn't made a new film since 2013, so I assume he could very well be retired and looking at other stuff he made over the years, stuff that is just as bad as this film here, it is probably a good thing he is not releasing new films anymore. However, I would also say that probably no director could have turned a screenplay as horrible as this one here into a success. Yes, it is this bad. Said script was created by Bunners and Dolejs and this is not the only film on which they collaborated. I always find it shocking when more than one wriiter comes up with such a travesty because normally you would expect that these two correct each other and spot each other's mistakes, but the opposite seems to be the case here: They really brought out the worst in each other apparently. And, like I said, if this isn't enough already, then they continued with this garbage on another films. By the way, Bunners was a co-writer on Freydank's Oscar-winning "Spielzeugland" a long time ago, so it shows that even an Oscar win (well, sort of, Bunners did not win himself) is never a guarantee for a good career. Now, as for the cast, the name Ann-Kathrin Kramer should be enough to realize this is never going to be a movie that achieves good quality. Kramer is one of maybe a dozen actresses who got cast again and again for lead characters although she really has absolutely zero range and versatility. And as this is a truly emotional movie when it comes to her character, who is also in almost every scene here, it becomes painfully obvious how Kramer is really void of any talent. The supporting cast is only slightly better, if at all. Elena Uhlig is once again cast as the protagonist's headstrong best friend who helps her make the right decisions (and is pregnant and becomes a mother while doing so), but yeah she is to me a definite contender for worst German supporting actress when it comes to small screen releases. I have seen her in several films and there is not a single one in which she is not bad and over the top. Luckily, her character here did not have a major impact or massive screen time. It's never about anybody other than Kramer and her character really. This also applies to Hans-Jochen Wagner, who plays the main character's partner and of course, even if she kept a groundbreaking aspect from her past from him, we are supposed to understand that it is true love and that the man has to fight for her, even if in the now she cannot even tell him the truth. Because it is such a dark secret yeah right. Instead, he is depicted as a fool who thinks his wife is cheating on him, but of course Kramer's character is far too honorable to do something like that. And finally, Johanna Gastdorf plays a bigger character as well. I mean she is much, much better than Kramer, but that does not really make her good either. Honestly, I have seen her in some garbage films now too and I always thought she is better than that. Apparently not. Nobody forced her to accept roles in movies like this one here. Pity she does.
Okay, now a few words on plot and story and individual scenes why this film sucked. One example is something I keep seeing again and again in these films. Teachers do not say in front of the class to each and every single student how they did in the test. Why do they keep showing this. Have they never been to school himself? Also, pretty cringeworthy how Kramer's character quickly becomes a personal teacher for the girl in here. Also very unrealistic. Let me say to you that in my 13 years of school education I have never had a teacher at my home and I am 99% sure that none of my fellow pupils and students has ever had a teacher at home either. So stupid. And this after the general idea that a teacher realizes the new student is the daughter she gave up for adoption years ago. By the way, th e quote from the main character was really stupid and fake too that the girl looks exactly like her. No she does not. Not one bit in fact. no matter how many childhood photos you use in order to convince us and have the male characters say the same nonsense. It is really ridiculous. They must have thought that the audience is completely stupid and sadly many audience members who accept everything in here as authentic and truth are indeedn genuinly stupid apparently. By the way, the one I forgot, the young actress is Alicia von Rittberg, who is having a decent career now and is among the most known from her age group. And you cannot say this film was made before her rise to popularity because she already was a star back then. Another thing i would like to mention is again about how unrealistic and fake this movie is. I think it was two times that the main character enters the teacher zone at her school and yes on both occasions they are talking about the new student. This is a school. They have hundreds of students. And yet this happens. And what is up with the "antagonist" chemistry teacher who keeps saying negaative things about the new girl and Kramer's character rolling her eyes at her colleague was really a prime example of how poor an actress Kramer is. Oh and also on another occasion, the protagonist goes to talk to the head of school and what happens? Yep, he is sitting there right this very moment talking to the girl's "parents". Sigh. This is so unreal. Of course, said principal (that's the word!) also tells Kramer's character at the end that he is sad that one of his best teachers is leaving. Yes of course, she is an amazing teacher for sure. What an awesome woman! By the way, for the fact that she agreed back then to give up her daughter for adoption they quickly rushed in a sob story about the girl's father having a fatal car crash to justify her actions and still be able to create enough room for the daughter to be angry at her mother before she of course realizes that it was not her fault. Completely unrealistic ending as well with all the conflict and drama before that. von Rittberg's and Gastdorf's characters really hate the central character minutes earlier and boom, all of a sudden they forgave her, get along okay again. There is so much nonsense and cringe to this movie, be it the main character's running, be it how allegedly she also struggled with mathematics in her early days before becoming a mathematics teacher (yeah right!), be it how she literally stalks the girl early on, be it how she realizes she has more in common with the girl than Gastdorf's character, be it the mother comment from the employee at the department store, be it the oil change joke about changing a baby's diapers, be it the pseudo dramatic heart disease, be it the party that goes out of hand, be it the running plan and so on and so forth. I could write another five paragraphs about all that is wrong with this movie, but I won't because the message is clear now as well. This is a film you may stay far far away from. It is absolutely horrible. Highly not recommended because nothing about this film feels authentic and there is no talent involved with it at all, especially from the writers.
Okay, now a few words on plot and story and individual scenes why this film sucked. One example is something I keep seeing again and again in these films. Teachers do not say in front of the class to each and every single student how they did in the test. Why do they keep showing this. Have they never been to school himself? Also, pretty cringeworthy how Kramer's character quickly becomes a personal teacher for the girl in here. Also very unrealistic. Let me say to you that in my 13 years of school education I have never had a teacher at my home and I am 99% sure that none of my fellow pupils and students has ever had a teacher at home either. So stupid. And this after the general idea that a teacher realizes the new student is the daughter she gave up for adoption years ago. By the way, th e quote from the main character was really stupid and fake too that the girl looks exactly like her. No she does not. Not one bit in fact. no matter how many childhood photos you use in order to convince us and have the male characters say the same nonsense. It is really ridiculous. They must have thought that the audience is completely stupid and sadly many audience members who accept everything in here as authentic and truth are indeedn genuinly stupid apparently. By the way, the one I forgot, the young actress is Alicia von Rittberg, who is having a decent career now and is among the most known from her age group. And you cannot say this film was made before her rise to popularity because she already was a star back then. Another thing i would like to mention is again about how unrealistic and fake this movie is. I think it was two times that the main character enters the teacher zone at her school and yes on both occasions they are talking about the new student. This is a school. They have hundreds of students. And yet this happens. And what is up with the "antagonist" chemistry teacher who keeps saying negaative things about the new girl and Kramer's character rolling her eyes at her colleague was really a prime example of how poor an actress Kramer is. Oh and also on another occasion, the protagonist goes to talk to the head of school and what happens? Yep, he is sitting there right this very moment talking to the girl's "parents". Sigh. This is so unreal. Of course, said principal (that's the word!) also tells Kramer's character at the end that he is sad that one of his best teachers is leaving. Yes of course, she is an amazing teacher for sure. What an awesome woman! By the way, for the fact that she agreed back then to give up her daughter for adoption they quickly rushed in a sob story about the girl's father having a fatal car crash to justify her actions and still be able to create enough room for the daughter to be angry at her mother before she of course realizes that it was not her fault. Completely unrealistic ending as well with all the conflict and drama before that. von Rittberg's and Gastdorf's characters really hate the central character minutes earlier and boom, all of a sudden they forgave her, get along okay again. There is so much nonsense and cringe to this movie, be it the main character's running, be it how allegedly she also struggled with mathematics in her early days before becoming a mathematics teacher (yeah right!), be it how she literally stalks the girl early on, be it how she realizes she has more in common with the girl than Gastdorf's character, be it the mother comment from the employee at the department store, be it the oil change joke about changing a baby's diapers, be it the pseudo dramatic heart disease, be it the party that goes out of hand, be it the running plan and so on and so forth. I could write another five paragraphs about all that is wrong with this movie, but I won't because the message is clear now as well. This is a film you may stay far far away from. It is absolutely horrible. Highly not recommended because nothing about this film feels authentic and there is no talent involved with it at all, especially from the writers.
