![]() Title
Island Of Happiness
Original Title
Glück ist eine Insel, Das
A legal conflict turns them into opponents - but their hearts are on the same side
![]() Genre
Drama
Year
2001
Language
German
Format
Super 16
Length
90'
Cast
Maria Furtwängler, Christian Kohlund, Valerie Niehaus, Stefan Reck, Ann-Sophie Dietrich, Ivo Möller, Antja Hagen, Ferdinand Dux etc.
Crew
Directed by: Gloria Behrens
Written by: Manfred Buzzi, Sebastian Andrae Director of Photography: Andreas Zickgraf Music by: Kambiz Giahi Produced by
UFA Film München
Produced for
ARD/DEGETO
Island Of Happiness
The North German coast is only a few kilometers from the island 11-year-old Patrick calls home, but to him it seems like another world. Patrick lives with his widowed father, ocean biologist Jens Groote, and his greatest wish is to have a mother again. This is also what he writes in a message that he puts in a bottle and tosses into the sea. The little girl who finds it, Melanie, convinces her mother, attorney Corinna Jacobs, also a single parent, to spend a few days on the island. This is what Corinna intended anyway, albeit for different reasons. As it happens, Corinna is representing a powerful Hamburg ship owner in his lawsuit against a rabid, media-savvy environmentalist. This man, claims the ship owner, is obstructing the work of his fishing ships. On the island, the two children become fast friends; their parents, however, are in for a surprise: Patrick's father is none other than eco-warrior Jens Groote, who shows Corinna that the ships are casting their nets in a nature preserve. As the days go by, Corinna begins to feel more than admiration for the stubborn nature-lover, and Jens cannot deny his attraction to the strong-willed lawyer. What separates them, however, is a major legal conflict. But if Patrick and Melanie have reached across the North Sea to start a new family, they're not about to let a lawsuit spoil their plans … ![]() |
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