Bernard and Bianca - The Mouse Police

Movie
German title	Bernard and Bianca - The Mouse Police
Original title	The Rescuers
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	1977
length	77 minutes
Age rating	FSK o. A.
Rod
Director	Wolfgang Reitherman
script	Larry Clemmons
production	Wolfgang Reitherman
music	Artie Butler
camera	various
cut	various
synchronization
chronology
Successor  → Bernard and Bianca in kangaroo land

Bernard and Bianca - Die Mäusepolizei is an American animated film by director Wolfgang Reitherman from 1977. The film is the 23rd full-length Disney cartoon. It is based on a children's book series about Miss Bianca by Margery Sharp , especially the band Bianca and her friends ( The Rescuers ). It was nominated for an Oscar in the category Best Song for Someone's Waiting for You in 1978 . The film was so successful across Germany that it was shown, for example, in the Helia cinema in Darmstadt for 52 weeks.

action

The story is about the Rescue Association that does good deeds around the world from its headquarters in the United Nations basement in New York . Two of these mice, the shy New Yorker Bernard and the elegant Hungarian ambassador Miss Bianca (who originally speak with a New Yorker or with a Hungarian accent), set out to save Penny - a kidnapped orphan girl . This was kidnapped by the greedy Madame Medusa into the Devil's Swamps to look for a huge diamond in an old pirate cave.

In their search, Bernard and Bianca receive help from the albatross Orville and the swamp dwellers, who also want to get rid of Madame Medusa. The two mice find Penny in an old paddle steamer that ran aground in the swamps and in which she has to live with Madame Medusa and her partner Snoops. Penny, desperate after several unsuccessful escape attempts, is happy that her message in a bottle with the cry for help was found. Before she can dare to escape again, however, she has to go back down into the cave. The expected help from the swamp dwellers is not available for the time being, as the dragonfly that was supposed to deliver the news is attacked by bats.

In the cave, Bernard and Bianca find the diamond in a place that Penny cannot reach alone. When the tide rises through a hole in the floor, Penny risks her life to help the two mice. All three can escape death with the diamond at the very last minute. Medusa, who sees herself at the goal of her dreams, now wants to kill Penny and Snoops. However, Bernard and Bianca can distract Medusa so that Penny can escape with the diamond. When the swamp dwellers are attacked by the house crocodiles Medusas, Brutus and Nero, they too can be outwitted.

When Penny and her friends try to escape with Medusa's swamp mobile, they are pursued by the latter. While the ship goes down in an explosion, the heroes manage to detach Medusa and hurl her against the sinking ship. Penny and the others escape while Snoops paddles away on a raft and Medusa is attacked by her house crocodiles.

In the end, Bernard and Bianca are a couple not only professionally but also privately. Penny was adopted by a friendly couple.

characters

• Bernard is a quiet and reserved mouse who is the caretaker in the mouse organization. Although he is superstitious (has triskaidecaphobia ) and hates flying, when the situation calls for him, he is reliable and brave. He is in love with Miss Bianca.
• Miss Bianca is an adventurous mouse from Hungary with whom Bernard is in love and who always has a joke on her lips in problematic situations.
• Madame Medusa is the villain and only thinks of the devil's eye , the most valuable diamond in the world. Your pets are two crocodiles: Nero and Brutus.
• Penny is a little orphan who was kidnapped by Madame Medusa because she is so small that she can fit into the hiding place of the devil's eye and get it out. Meanwhile , Madame Medusa uses her beloved teddy bear as a new hiding place for the diamond.
• Mr. Snoops , Madame Medusa's incompetent accomplice, is also greedy and hates Penny.

occupation

The German dubbing was commissioned by Simoton Film in Berlin. Heinrich Riethmüller wrote the dialogue book, directed the dialogue and translated the lyrics into German.

Characters	Original version	German version
Bianca	Eva Gabor	Gisela Fritsch
Bernard	Bob Newhart	Gerd Duwner
Bianca (vocals)	Robie Lester	Wencke Myhre
penny	Michelle Stacy	Andrea Pavlowski
Orville	Jim Jordan	Harald Juhnke
Madame Medusa	Geraldine Page	Beate Hasenau
Mr. Snoops	Joe Flynn	Peter Schiff
hatch	Pat Buttram	Klaus Miedel
Ellie Mae	Jeanette Nolan	Inge Wolffberg
Rufus	John McIntire	Arnold Marquis
Dragonflies	Jim Macdonald	Jim Macdonald
Rabbits	George Lindsey	Joachim Kemmer

New editions

• In December 1983 the film was re-released along with the Mickey Mouse short film Mickey's Christmas Tale (English).
• It was re-released in 1989 as the sequel Bernard and Bianca in Kangaroo land hit stores a year later.
• On VHS and laserdisc were Bernard and Bianca in until 1992 Walt Disney Classics Collection published
• In 1999 the film was released again.
• The film was first released on Blu-ray in Germany in September 2012

background

Budget and box office results

The budget at the time of production was estimated at about $ 1.2 million. The film grossed over the years (including re-screenings) in the United States, adjusted for inflation, 173 million dollars.

Others

• The film was John Lounsbery's last project. He died on February 13, 1976.
• The film marks the beginning of a refined copying technique that made softer contours possible.
• The German version - dubbing, lyrics and dubbing - comes from Heinrich Riethmüller .
• Wencke Myhre sings the song Someone's Waiting For You in the German version .
• Rufus the cat was designed after him in honor of the chief draftsman Ollie Johnston . Johnston was the last living member of Disney's Nine Old Men until his death in 2008 .
• In 1999 Disney recalled 3.4 million copies of the VHS version of the film. The image of a naked woman crept into two background images during post-production.

Awards

• 1978 - golden canvas
• 1977 - Honorable Mention from the National Board of Review

Reviews

• “An imaginative cartoon adventure fairy tale in which the great, old artists of the Disney Studios worked together one last time and enchanted them with their drawing charm. The characters are excellently animated, above all Orville, the hapless albatross (...). From a technical point of view, the film is full of inadequacies, but that doesn't detract from its appeal (especially for children). ” -“ Lexicon of international film ”(CD -ROM edition), Systhema, Munich 1997

literature

• Margery Sharp: Bianca and her friends. (Original title: The Rescuers ). Benziger, Einsiedeln, Zurich and Cologne 1963.
• Leonard Maltin : The Disney Films. 3rd edition, 384 pp. Hyperion, New York 1995, ISBN 0-7868-8137-2 .
• Elmar Biebl, Dirk Manthey, Jörg Altendorf: The films of Walt Disney. The magical world of animation. 2nd edition, 177 p. Milchstraße, Hamburg 1993, ISBN 3-89324-117-5 .
• Frank Thomas , Ollie Johnston : Disney Animation. The Illusion of Life. 575 S. Abbeville Press, New York 1981, ISBN 0-89659-698-2 .

Web links

• Rescuers - The Rescuers in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Bernard and Bianca - The Mouse Police in the online film database
• Bernard and Bianca - The Mouse Police atRotten Tomatoes(English)
• Comparison of the Edited Versions New Version - Old Version by Bernard and Bianca at Schnittberichte.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ German synchronous index: German synchronous index | Movies | Bernard and Bianca - The Mouse Police. Retrieved February 23, 2018 . 
2. ↑ The Rescuers box office results according to imdb.de or Westegg inflation calculator
3. ↑ duckfilm.de