Boefje (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Buoy |
| Country of production | Netherlands |
| original language | Dutch |
| Publishing year | 1939 |
| length | 94 (1939), 87 (DVD version) minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Detlef Sierck |
| script |
Carl Zuckmayer Curt Alexander Marie Joseph Brusse |
| production | J. ter Linden |
| music | Cor Steyn |
| camera | Akos Farkas |
| cut | Rita Roland |
| occupation | |
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Boefje is a Dutch fiction film from 1939 by Detlef Sierck , who shot his last film here before he emigrated to the USA. The template, the youth book of the same name (1903), comes from the pen of Marie Joseph Brusse . The script came mainly from Carl Zuckmayer.
action
In the port area of Rotterdam at the turn of the century. 12-year-old Jan Grovers, better known by the nickname Boefje, lives there. Jan and his best friend Piet Puk look a bit like free-roaming street dogs: dirty, wild and with a lot of nonsense in their heads. Their common goal is to one day emigrate from the local port to America. Soon the two boys turned the whole area against them, and Boefje is soon seen by many as uncontrollable and difficult to educate. Only the local pastor believes that there must be something good in every person and is not ready to give up even with Boefje. He takes him under his wing and wants to teach him better manners and a love of music.
One day an accident happens and Boefje is blamed. Now the authorities are fed up: Jan Grovers is being taken from his parents and three younger siblings and is supposed to be taken off the street. Instead, state institutions are to take over his education from now on. But Boefje is and remains a little rebel, indomitable and with a mind of its own. And so it doesn't take long before the boy escapes the control imposed on him, busts out and gets together with Piet again. The two street boys quickly find their way back into the old waters and their behavior causes the familiar chaos. But his personal guardian angel, the pastor, does not give up and does not want to lose faith in the good in Boefje even now. Soon his efforts will begin to bear fruit ...
Production notes
The shooting of Boefje began on July 17, 1939 on location in Rotterdam and ended about six weeks later. The premiere took place in Rotterdam on October 4, 1939. One day later, Detlef Sierck and his wife Hilde fled the Netherlands and embarked from Rotterdam for America. In Germany, the film, which was supposed to be shown at the first film festival in Cannes in September 1939 (which was canceled due to the beginning of the Second World War), was only shown in 2016 in the Zeughauskino of the German Historical Museum.
The main actress Annie van Ees, who played the twelve-year-old title hero, was almost 46 (!) Years old at the time of shooting.
The German émigré Leo Meyer took over the production management, it was his last film.
In 1922 the Boefje novel was also turned into a play.
literature
- Michael Töteberg : The best Dutch film. Carl Zuckmayer writes a scenario for Detlef Sierck: Boefje (1939) . In: Gunther Nickel (ed.): Carl Zuckmayer and the media. Contributions to an international symposium. Zuckmayer Yearbook Volume 4.2 (2001). Röhring University Press, St. Ingbert 2001
Web links
- Boefje in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ CineGraph: Detlef Sierck, delivery 8
- ↑ according to Kay Less : 'In life, more is taken from you than given ...'. Lexicon of filmmakers who emigrated from Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1945. A general overview. P. 646, ACABUS-Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8 , based on ship's documents
- ↑ https://www.dhm.de/fileadmin/medien/relaunch/zeughauskino/160617_DHM_Zeughauskino_Programm_2016-07-09_RZ-Web.pdf