Sonjas Rückkehr

Sonjas Rückkehr
Directed by Tobias Ineichen
Produced by Valentin Greutert
Simon Hesse
Written by Dave Tucker
Starring Melanie Winiger
Music by Fabian Römer
Cinematography Felix von Muralt
Release dates
  • 30 October 2006 (2006-10-30)

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Running time
90
Country Switzerland
Language Swiss German

Sonjas Rückkehr is a 2006 Swiss Drama film produced for the Swiss television SRF.[2]

Plot (excerpt)

Sonja Knecht (Melanie Winiger) was sentenced to six years in prison for the alleged murder of her husband. Sonja travels to her hometown where the 28-year-old mother rents a room. She wants to see her son, watching him undetected in the schoolyard and learns from his mouth "my mum is dead" as the eight-year-old boy was teased by other school children because his prison mother. The further contact is initially prohibited: Tim lives with her in-law parents Armin and Julia which Sonja has entrusted her then two-year-old son. Armin forces after another contact trial by Sonja, and that she has to live in an open living group as Sonja broke the rules of probation. To obtain the legal custody of her son, Sonja contacts Stefan, the only witness of the murder night and asks him to finally admit the truth.

Cast

Reception

First aired at the 12e Cinéma Tout Écran – Festival international du cinéma et de télévision, Competition in Genève on 30 October 2006, Sonjas Rückkehr was presented on occasion of the 42nd Solothurn Film Festival on 22 January 2007.[1]

The Swiss cinema magazine Cinema claimed "a touching, spirited and deeply in the Swiss Plateau mentality founded melodrama that could inspire more than 600,000 spectators on a Sunday evening".[3]

Production

Sonjas Rückkehr was filmed in April 2006 at locations in the canton of Zürich and was produced for the Swiss television SRF in Swiss German.[4] For international use, the original title Sonjas Rückkehr may refer to Her Second Chance.

Home media

The television film was released on DVD (RC 2) on 6 July 2006.[5][6]

Awards

References

  1. 1 2 "Sonjas Rückkehr". swissfilms.ch. Retrieved 2015-03-03.
  2. "Sonjas Rückkehr". outnow.ch. Retrieved 2015-03-03.
  3. Veronika Grob. "Sonjas Rückkehr [Tobias Ineichen]". Cinema. Retrieved 2015-03-03.
  4. "Schweizer Fernsehen SRF: Sonjas Rückkehr" (in German). Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen SRF. Retrieved 2015-03-03.
  5. "Film Sonjas Rückkehr" (in German). cineman.ch. Retrieved 2015-02-27.
  6. "Sonjas Rückkehr" (in German). Ex Libris (bookshop). Retrieved 2015-09-07.
  7. "Sonjas Rückkehr" (PDF) (in German). swissfilms.ch. 2007-11-27. Retrieved 2015-09-07.


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