Flowers for the man in the moon

Movie
Original title	Flowers for the man in the moon
Country of production	GDR
original language	German
Publishing year	1975
length	84 minutes
Age rating	FSK 6
Rod
Director	Rolf Losansky
script	Irmgard Speitel Ulrich Speitel
production	DEFA , KAG "Berlin"
music	Peter Gotthardt
camera	Helmut Grewald
cut	Ursula Zweig
occupation
Jutta Wachowiak : Mother Ledermann Stefan Lisewski : Father Ledermann Dieter Franke : condensate max Annemone Haase : Professor Vitamin Gerhard Bienert : Grandpa Sielaff Sven Grothe : Adam Astrid Heinze : Evchen Dirk Förster : Manni Yvonne Dießner : Susi Ronald Schwarz : Egon Carl Heinz Choynski : factotum Dieter Jäger : Anton Evamaria Bath : Gertrud Carmen-Maja Antoni : Maja Jürgen Hilbrecht : Paul Annerose Diete : Ulla Klaus Gehrke : Baker's pancake Ralf Schlösser : Ralf Frank Mettchen : Frank Hannelore Groth : Irmchen Gertraut Last : Lecturer Werner Wieland : absent-minded professor Günther Grabbert : Moon (speaker)

Flowers for the Man in the Moon is a German children's film by Rolf Losansky from 1975. The world premiere took place on October 12, 1975 in the Berlin cosmos .

action

It is school holidays and Adam, Evchen and Manni are busy with a self-made telescope with which they observe the moon. Suddenly Adam hears the voice of the moon, who wants a flower, because only then is life really possible for him. Adam's father works as a breeder, but is more active in the vegetable sector. He thinks flowers are women's stuff. Adam knows that Professor Vitamin, who was highly valued by his father, once did research on flowers for the moon, but had to give up her research after the end of the war in favor of vegetable research. With the help of the good-natured pilot Condensmaxe, Adam finds the former greenhouse of Professor Vitamin and in it the last bulb of a moonflower. Adam, who is laughed at by Evchen and Manni, plants the onion, but through improper handling it develops a numbing effect that Adam thinks he is flying through and finally falls from a pile he made himself in the greenhouse. Evchen and Manni save the unconscious Adam from the greenhouse and splash his face with water. The tuber, in turn, disappears on contact with water as if by magic.

Adam no longer has a basis for a moon flower. He visits Professor Vitamin at the University of Berlin, who actually finds an identical tuber in a botanical garden. Adam is now using it to experimentally simulate the weather conditions on the moon so that it can withstand the conditions there. He receives support from Evchen and Manni as well as from Grandpa Sielaff, who build a cooling and heating machine. The flower is now confronted with wind, cold and heat and develops fragile stems and flowers. Before it can be brought into contact with the vacuum, however, the machine breaks down. Now condensate helps, who lifts off the earth with the flower in his helicopter and thus penetrates into thinner layers of air. The flower is now ready. Adam takes her to the lake where he first spoke to the moon. The moon is happy that it is now so beautiful and can laugh for the first time.

criticism

Contemporary critics praised the film because it succeeded in merging the real and the fantastic world. Flowers for the man in the moon are an "entertaining strip ...". The artificial, glass-blown moon flower, which does not correspond to the moon's wish for a real flower, was criticized. "To make matters worse, Adam's moon flower is so eerily kitsch that children who have been trained in a minimum of taste should actually wish for a powerful moon storm," says Renate Holland-Moritz .

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, critics wrote : “Hard-core children may shine with their scientific findings about the heavenly bodies, may not accept the quiet agreement of the dreamers and describe the whole thing as crazy, but those who see more than mere imagination in their imagination will with excitement Mixture of fairy tales and everyday life follow. "

The film service found: “A bit lengthy in the first half, but exciting and fun around the climax. One of the better contemporary fairy tale films from DEFA production. "

Award

At the National Festival for Children's Films of the GDR in cinema and television in Gera , later known as the Golden Sparrow , Flowers for the Man in the Moon received the diploma of the children's jury and the diploma of the Minister of Culture in 1977.

literature

• F.-B. Habel : The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , pp. 81-82 .
• Flowers for the man in the moon . 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. 208-210.

Web links

• Flowers for the Man in the Moon in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Flowers for the man in the moon at filmportal.de
• Flowers for the Man in the Moon at the DEFA Foundation

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ehrentraud Novotny: Real and fantastic flow together . In: Berliner Zeitung , October 19, 1975.
2. ^ Renate Holland-Moritz: Children's cinema owl . In: Eulenspiegel , No. 48, 1975.
3. ↑ Flowers for the Man in the Moon . In: Ingelore König, Dieter Wiedemann, Lothar Wolf (eds.): Between Marx and Muck. DEFA films for children . Henschel, Berlin 1996, p. 209.
4. ↑ Flowers for the Man in the Moon. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed August 3, 2018 .  
5. ↑ See defa.de