“Mother Gets Going” with Gila von Weitershausen and Elmar Wepper
A film version of the successful novel by Annegrit Arens for the series “All the Great Women”
Filming has now begun in Berlin for the lively family comedy “Mother Gets Going”, commissioned by the First TV Channel. The leading roles are taken by Gila von Weitershausen (“Utta Danella – Wedding in the Country”, “Rivals in Love”) and Elmar Wepper (“Wedding for Four”, “Two Brothers”), and the production also features David Winter, Zoë Welsch, Jeanne Tremsal, Thure Riefenstein, Paul Fassnacht and Verena Peter. Shooting is scheduled to be completed by the beginning of November 2002.

Eva Maria Split (Gila von Weitershausen) is pleased when her husband Herbert (Elmar Wepper) retires. But she is less taken with his idea that they should set off on a long journey in the new mobile home. Eva Maria hates camping holidays. And apart from that, she has plenty to do at home: her son Frederik (David Winter) still lives with them, and on top of that Eva Maria looks after her granddaughter Luise (Zoë Welsch), since her daughter Anna (Jeanne Tremsal) and her son-in-law Daniel (Thure Riefenstein) both have full-time jobs. And there’s something else which makes Eva Maria want to stick around: for the last few months she has been speculating on the stock market with such success that Daniel has even offered her a job in his financial consultancy firm. This leaves Herbert trying to run the household and making a mess of everything. The inevitable conflict is not long in coming. Frederik moves out, and by way of a replacement for him Herbert instils his new camping friend Klaus (Paul Fassnacht) in the boy’s old room. Eva Maria’s marriage is put to a serious test. But despite everything, she finally agrees to go camping with Herbert. This entails Herbert drinking bottles of beer with the guys from the other mobile homes, while Eva Maria struggles with the everyday difficulties of camping life. The fact that everything works out just fine for the whole family in the end is predominantly due Eva Maria’s instinctive mastery of the stock market...

“Mother Gets Going” is a Ziegler Film production (producer: Tanja Ziegler), commissioned by ARD/DEGETO for the First TV Channel. Ariane Zeller (“Purely For Love of You”) is the director, the screenplay is by Jessica Schellack and Kerstin Oesterlin, while the cameraman is Axel Henschel. Programme executive is Renate Michel (ARD/DEGETO). Channel One will be broadcasting “Mother Gets Going” next year as part of the fourth series of “All the Great Women”.