Bear Burger Schnurre

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Movie
Original title Bear Burger Schnurre
Country of production GDR
original language German
Publishing year 1957
length 75 minutes
Rod
Director Ralf Kirsten
script Hermann Werner Kubsch
production DEFA
music Günter Kochan
camera Horst E. Brandt
cut Hildegard Conrad
occupation

Bärenburger Schnurre is a German children's film of the DEFA of Ralf Kirsten from the year 1957th

action

In the small town of Bärenburg, the children want their own swimming pool with a diving platform - the Saale bank would turn out to be a lido, but is littered with rubble and other rubbish. The mayor decides that the town hall is planning to build a large swimming pool itself. Since there is a lack of money and workers for the implementation, the construction plans are repeatedly postponed.

The twelve-year-old Hansel therefore takes matters into his own hands: he and friends organize a signature campaign that collects volunteers for the clean-up work. Hansel wants to go to the mayor with the stately list, but he throws the children out with the remark, "I'll help you!" Together with a call for weekend work on the banks of the Saale, the sentence made it into the newspaper.

Soon there were numerous supporters for the children's plans, including the parents and city councilor Müller. Although the mayor wants to prevent the construction of the swimming pool with some intrigues, in the end he cannot prevent the clearing of the Saale beach and the laying of the foundation stone for the new swimming pool.

production

Bärenburger Schnurre was the first film by the director Ralf Kirsten . It was created during his studies at FAMU in Prague and was recognized as Kirsten's thesis. The film had its premiere on February 10, 1957. It opened in theaters on February 15, 1957.

Bärenburger Schnurre also ran under the alternative title of Hans Eulenspiegel .

criticism

The Sächsisches Tageblatt criticized the children's film for its "simple fable, endowed with joie de vivre and also a little satire, which is less likely to bring joy to the child viewer, as he hardly understands it, than to the adult," praised that the film "through his optimism, his cheerful exuberance [...] can be carried away ”.

Ingelore König, Dieter Wiedemann and Lothar Wolf wrote that "the leisurely adventure [...] with the Eulenspiegel figure who was not persevered, with a dramaturgy [sick] that was largely unclear."

The film-dienst stated: "After the premiere controversial because of formal weaknesses and hardly shown, the film today also proves the political optimism in the mid-fifties."

literature

  • F.-B. Habel : The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , pp. 53 .
  • Bear Burger Schnurre . In: Ingelore König, Dieter Wiedemann, Lothar Wolf (eds.): Between Marx and Muck. DEFA films for children . Henschel, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-89487-234-9 , pp. 98-100.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. mp in: Sächsisches Tageblatt , February 27, 1957.
  2. Bärenburger Schnurre . In: Ingelore König, Dieter Wiedemann, Lothar Wolf (eds.): Between Marx and Muck. DEFA films for children . Henschel, Berlin 1996, p. 99.
  3. Bärenburger Schnurre. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed July 21, 2018 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used