Car fairy tale

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Movie
Original title Car fairy tale
Country of production GDR
original language German
Publishing year 1983
length 98 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Erwin Stranka
script Erwin Stranka
production DEFA , KAG "Berlin"
music Karl-Ernst Sasse
camera Helmut Bergmann
cut Barbara Simon
occupation

Automärchen is a German DEFA film comedy directed by Erwin Stranka in 1983 . It is based on stories from the volume Automärchen by Jiří Marek .

action

Auto mechanic Ali Kuslowski believes that numerous accidents in his workshop were caused by supernatural things. His superior Kalle Sengebusch thinks Ali is a weirdo and, among other things, wants to prevent his daughter Ina from meeting Ali any more.

Meanwhile, Ali reconstructs the first accident: the honest accountant Piel went fishing one day and fell asleep by the lake. While he was dreaming, the forest fairies danced in a nearby meadow. A little later, Piel found a forest fairy in the trunk of his Trabant, who turned out to be a speed fanatic and made Piel more and more often to drive on the country roads far above top speed. Only when the fairy found pleasure in motorcycles did Piel get rid of her. However, her wreath of flowers was still on the passenger seat when Piel brought the Trabant into the workshop.

Ulrich Neumann, in turn, brought bad luck to a black cat that Neumann's son carries around in his arm in the workshop. Neumann once found this cat in a garbage can and rescued it. Shortly thereafter, the garbage can was transformed into a luxury car, the cat recited Goethe's Mephisto and offered Neumann a pact: his soul against ownership of the car. After some hesitation, Neumann agreed and signed the pact Seele against “a special class automobile”. The car was admired, but it turned out to be a fuel eater. Neumann, on the other hand, became increasingly heartless towards his children and his wife. When he curses the car himself, he is eaten up by the hood and the car turns back into a garbage can.

Kalle doesn't believe Ali's stories and chases him out of the house when he catches Ali in his daughter's bed. On his way to the workshop, Kalle picks up a hitchhiker in the rain who imagines himself to be an automobile accident. Kalle thinks he is a weirdo too, but the accident apologizes in advance that it will destroy his car when it arrives at the workshop. In fact, the wheel axles break shortly after Kalle arrives at the workshop. The accident gives him a motorcycle as a replacement by having a friend of Kalles cause a serious accident in front of Kalles apartment. Kalle consults with a neighbor about how to deal with ghosts, and she advises him to carry three hairs of a virgin with him. Kalle now carries three of his daughter's hairs with him. The accident, in turn, offers him the opportunity to remedy the shortage of materials in the workshop by revealing various accidents to Kalle in advance. In addition to the scrap, functioning spare parts would always fall away for the workshop. However, Kalle always drives to the predicted accident location and can prevent the accidents. A pile-up on the autobahn takes place because the driver who caused the problem cannot be stopped by Kalle at a rest stop. With the next accident, the accident also appears at the planned location, because the many failed predictions have made it suspicious. Between the accident and Kalle there is a duel that prevents the predicted accident from happening. When the accident tries to run over Kalle, Kalle remains unharmed. He mocks the misfortune because he is protected by three virgin hairs. The misfortune gives up and disappears with a big explosion. A little later, Ali and Ina appear and tell Kalle that he is going to be a grandfather - Ina is three months pregnant. Kalle remains perplexed.

production

Automärchen was filmed in 1982 and had its premiere on June 16, 1983 at the Berlin Kino International . The following day the film was released in GDR cinemas and was shown for the first time on August 7, 1985 on DFF 1 on GDR television.

Bärbl Bergmann was the assistant director . The costumes are by Christiane Dorst , while the film structures are made by Paul Lehmann . The automobile accident was originally played by Dieter Franke , who had to give up the role after a few days due to a serious illness. He was replaced by Kurt Böwe , who can also be seen in the film as Kalle Sengebusch.

criticism

The contemporary criticism stated that with the film, director Stranka "planted the poetic-fantastic element in our otherwise mostly rational comedy and comedian landscape", but that he was apparently afraid of his own courage and so many things were only approached half-heartedly.

The filmdienst called Auto fairy tale "stories around the car, the people's favorite toy, in a turbulent, but little serene and largely unsuccessful episode film."

For Frank-Burkhard Habel , car fairy tales were “comedic fun with a bland aftertaste”.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Dieter Franke on defa.de
  2. ↑ a b F.-B. Habel : The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , pp. 52 .
  3. ↑ Peter Hoff: Comedy - foam braked . In: Film und Fernsehen , No. 10, 1983, p. 16.
  4. ↑ Car Tales. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used