Adventure in Bamsdorf

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Movie
Original title Adventure in Bamsdorf
Country of production GDR
original language German
Publishing year 1958
length 60 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Konrad Petzold
script Konrad Petzold
production DEFA
music Heinz-Friedel Heddenhausen
camera Günter Marczinkowsky
cut Use Peters
occupation

Abenteuer in Bamsdorf is a German children's film of the DEFA of Konrad Petzold from 1958. It is the sequel to the film Die Fahrt nach Bamsdorf from the year 1956th

action

The siblings Toni and Rita arrive in Bamsdorf, where they want to spend their holidays with their grandmother. Toni meets his friend Klaus again here, who entrusts him with his latest discovery: He has found a cave. Both boys take a look at the cave and Toni realizes that there is a passage to the inside from her, but it is buried. Toni and Klaus decide to explore the cave extensively the next day. They can't use little Rita for that.

The next day, the grandma also decides that Rita should rather play with another girl from the village. However, when she goes to cook for the harvest workers and leaves Rita alone, she secretly follows the boys. Toni has stretched a rope when descending into the cave, with the help of which you can find your way back to the entrance of the cave at any time. Rita, however, picks up and unrolls the thread and follows the boys into the cave. Although she wants to turn back after a short time, huge stones now block the exit after a rock fall.

Toni and Klaus meet Rita deep inside the cave. The boys react angrily, the adventure suddenly turns serious. You can't find the exit. In the end, the three of them get along, especially since Toni is defending his little sister from Klaus, and proceed systematically, looking for every corridor that leaves the room and marking the paths that are impassable. In the end it is Rita who finds a way out into the open at an unknown point. At the top of a quarry, the three children come out again. From there, Klaus knows the path that leads back to the village. They overcome a fence on which a sign indicates that entering the quarry is prohibited. The three of them return to the village and Klaus carries little Rita on his back.

production

In 1956 Konrad Petzold made his directorial debut with Die Fahrt nach Bamsdorf . The film, premiered in December 1956, about the siblings Toni and Rita, who experience some adventures on the trip to their grandmother in Bamsdorf, was a great success and led to the sequel, Adventure in Bamsdorf . The child actors were the same, Adventure in Bamsdorf follows directly on The trip to Bamsdorf , so the now somewhat older actors wear the same clothes at the beginning as in the first part, so that a seamless transition between the two films is suggested. In contrast to the first film, however , Abenteuer in Bamsdorf was shot in color. The film was released on April 4, 1958.

criticism

Contemporary critics praised director Petzold for “keeping the fable as simple and as understandable as possible […] The scenes in the cave passage are pleasantly exciting. The cinematic means are used well. The picture is very expressive and people only speak when it is absolutely necessary. "

Alexander Abusch , State Secretary and 1st Deputy Minister for Culture, criticized the film at the 2nd Film Conference in July 1958 as too idyllic; Petzold was also accused of completely excluding the pioneer organization in the film.

The lexicon of international films calls adventure in Bamsdorf "[very] natural entertainment for children."

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ JB: Elternhaus und Schule , No. 4, 1958. Quoted from Habel, p. 13.
  2. ↑ See Ralf Schenk (Red.), Filmmuseum Potsdam (Hrsg.): The second life of the film city Babelsberg. DEFA feature films 1946–1992 . Henschel, Berlin 1994, p. 133.
  3. ↑ Adventure in Bamsdorf. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed November 7, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used