''Sonjas Rückkehr'' is a 2006 Swiss Drama film produced for the Swiss television SRF.

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

Melanie Winiger Melanie Ann Winiger (born 22 January 1979) is a Swiss-Canadian actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Switzerland 1996. Early life and education Winiger was born 22 January 1979 in Zürich, Switzerland to Carol Winiger (née ...

as Sonja *

Marlon Altenburger Marlon is a masculine given name. According to the ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', the popularity of Marlon Brando led to general awareness of the name (his father was also named Marlon), though the origin of the name is not known. Speculatio ...

as Tim * Urs Hefti as Armin Berger * Michael Finger as Stefan * Suly Röthlisberger as Silvia *

Renate Steiger Renate is a feminine given name. It is derived from the Latin name Renatus. It is common in German, Dutch and Norwegian. Notable people with the given name include: * Renate Aschauer-Knaup (born 1948), German singer (Amon Düül II) * Renate Bla ...

as Elvira * Andreas Matti as probationer Brändli *

Herbert Leiser Herbert may refer to: People * Herbert (musician), a pseudonym of Matthew Herbert * Herbert (given name) * Herbert (surname) Places Antarctica * Herbert Mountains, Coats Land * Herbert Sound, Graham Land Australia * Herbert, Northern Territor ...

as father of Sonja * Oliver Zgorelec as Dejan * Fitore Aliu as Tatjana * Anette Wunsch as prison director *

Philippe Graber Philippe is a masculine given name, cognate to Philip, and sometimes also a surname. The name may refer to: * Philippe of Belgium (born 1960), King of the Belgians (2013–present) * Philippe (footballer) (born 2000), Brazilian footballer * Prince ...

as police officer * Hanspeter Bader as innkeeper * Eva Lenherr as supervisor * Anne Marie Hafner as Dora

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 The Solothurn Film Festival (SFT) is the most important festival for Swiss film productions. Founded in 1966 in the Swiss city of Solothurn, the annual festival presents a representative selection of Swiss feature, documentary, and short film prod ...

on 22 January 2007. 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''".

Production

''Sonjas Rückkehr'' was filmed in April 2006 at locations in the

canton of Zürich The canton of Zurich is an administrative unit (Swiss canton, canton) of Switzerland, situated in the northeastern part of the country. With a population of (as of ), it is the most populous canton of Switzerland. Zurich is the ''de facto'' Capi ...

and was produced for the Swiss television SRF in

Swiss German Swiss German (Standard German: , ,Because of the many different dialects, and because there is no #Conventions, defined orthography for any of them, many different spellings can be found. and others; ) is any of the Alemannic German, Alemannic ...

. 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.

Awards

* 2006: Geneva Cinéma Tout Ecran, ''Grand Prix for Best Swiss TV Film'' won ''Best Film'' for Tobias Ineichen.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sonjas Ruckkehr 2006 drama films Swiss television films Swiss drama films 2000s German-language films German-language television shows 2006 television films 2006 films Swiss German-language films Films shot in Zurich