A Day for a Miracle

A Day for a Miracle (German: Das Wunder von Kärnten, lit. 'The wonder of Carinthia') is a 2011 film directed by Andreas Prochaska in 2011 and produced by Rowboat Film- und Fernsehproduktion and Graf Film for public German TV channel ZDF and Austrian ORF. The film is based on real events, telling the story of a three-year-old girl from Austria, who fell into the lake behind her parents' house in 1998, and had been under water for 30 minutes when she was found. Nobody believed she had a chance at survival when the young cardiovascular surgeon Dr. Markus Thalmann takes up the seemingly hopeless fight for the young girl's life. His rescue has written medical history.[2] The screenplay was written by Christoph Silber and Thorsten Wettcke.[3][4]

A Day for a Miracle
Film poster
GermanDas Wunder von Kärnten
Directed byAndreas Prochaska
Screenplay byChristoph Silber, Thorsten Wettcke
Produced bySam Davis, Rowboat Film- und Fernsehproduktion
Klaus Graf, Graf Film
StarringKen Duken
Julia Koschitz
Juergen Maurer
Gerti Drassl
Gerhard Liebmann
Sara Wogatai
Bernhard Schir
Erwin Steinhauer
CinematographyThomas Kienast
Edited byDaniel Prochaska
Music byMatthias Weber
Release date
  • October 2011 (2011-10) (Hamburg)[1]
Running time
89 minutes
CountriesGermany, Austria
LanguageGerman

The film premiered at the 2011 Filmfest Hamburg, and later showed in television in Germany and Austria.

Plot

Dr. Markus Höchstmann, a young and ambitious cardiovascular surgeon and ultra marathon runner from Vienna, has landed his first job in a clinic in Klagenfurt, province of Carinthia. As his wife and son are still living in Vienna, he needs to commute to the capital every chance he gets to see them. His colleagues have little sympathy for him when he is asked to fill in for the chief of surgery on the weekend of his son's birthday to perform a standard procedure on an important local politician. This is when an emergency is flown in: a four-year-old girl has drowned, her body is lifeless and cold, her heart is not beating. After 30 minutes under water, the damage to her brain is considered too extensive to try to resuscitate her. Höchstmann disagrees. Against the opinions of his more experienced colleagues and against all odds, he decides to fight for the little girl's life and performs a medical miracle.[5]

Awards

Wins
  • International Emmy Award 2013, in the category: TV Movie/Mini-Series.[6]
  • The film won two Austrian TV awards Romy in 2012, for "Best TV screenplay" (by Christoph Silber and Thorsten Wettcke) and "Best TV Producer" (Sam Davis, Rowboat and co-producer Klaus Graf of Graf Film, Austria)
  • Director Andreas Prochaska won the Bavarian TV Award for "Best Directing TV Movie" in 2012.[7]
  • Gerti Drassl won the German Actors Award 2013 (Deutscher Schauspielerpreis) in the category "Best Actress in a Supporting Role"[8]
  • Günter-Rohrbach-Filmpreis 2012 for supporting actors Gerti Drassl and Gerhard Liebmann [9]

Nominations
  • Nominated for Prix Europa 2012[10]
  • Nominated for Grimme-Preis 2013, category "Fiction"[11]
  • Nomination in the category "Best Director TV", "Regiepreis Metropolis" for Andreas Prochaska [12]

References
  1. "Das Wunder von Kärnten". Retrieved 18 June 2020.
  2. Atul Gawande (10 December 2007). "A Life-Saving Checklist". The New Yorker. Retrieved 30 September 2016.
  3. "A Day for a Miracle". 18 January 2012. Retrieved 30 September 2016 – via IMDb.
  4. German news article about Dr. Markus Thalmann Archived October 17, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
  5. "Productions - ROWBOAT Film- und Fernsehproduktion". Retrieved 30 September 2016.
  6. International Emmy Awards 2013 Website Press Release Archived December 3, 2013, at the Wayback Machine. Accessed on November 26, 2013
  7. Winners of Bavarian TV Awards, 1989-2012. Archived November 5, 2013, at the Wayback Machine Accessed on November 4, 2013
  8. Press release on German Actors Awards winners and nominees 2013 Archived November 13, 2013, at the Wayback Machine. Accessed on November 4, 2013
  9. Press release on website Günter-Rohrbach Filmpreis. Accessed on November 4, 2013.
  10. Press release on Prix Europa Nominees Accessed on November 4, 2013
  11. Grimme Institut press release on nominees 2013 Accessed on November 4, 2013
  12. Press release German Directors Association BVR on winners and nominees 2012. Archived 2013-02-05 at the Wayback Machine Accessed on November 4, 2013
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