The Pirate's Heart (film)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The pirate's heart |
| Country of production | German Democratic Republic |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1988 |
| length | 83 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
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| Director | Jürgen Brauer |
| script | Jürgen Brauer, Gabriele Herzog scenario |
| production | DEFA , KAG "Johannisthal" |
| music | Ralf Hoyer |
| camera | Jürgen Brauer |
| cut | Evelyn Carow |
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The heart of the pirates is a German children's film of the DEFA of Jurgen Brauer from 1988. The literature from the GDR is based on the eponymous children's book by Benno Pludra .
action
Ten-year-old Jessi lives with her mother, who works on a chicken farm, in a village on the Baltic Sea . The father, a circus rider, left the family before Jessi's birth, so the relationship with the mother is all the more intimate. It is disturbed when Jessi finds out that her mother has a new boyfriend whom she even wants to marry - Jessi does not get along with the possible surrogate father and rejects him.
On the beach she finds a stone that begins to glow in her hand and tells her to be the petrified heart of the pirate William. Jessi soon confides all her worries to the stone and the stone tells her about the life and adventures of the pirate, which Jessi develops into real stories in her imagination. Increasingly, she moves away from her mother and her playmates, who laugh at her because only she can recognize the special properties of the stone.
One day Jessi's father Jakko comes to town and looks like the pirate of Jessi's imagination. His circus is a guest in the neighboring town and he has come to see his former lover again. Jessi begins to dream of a future as a family, especially since she and her father are allowed to ride Jakkos white horse through the village. Jessi's mother, however, settles accounts with the former lover, reproaches him heavily and makes it clear that a life together is not an option. Jakko invites her and Jessi to a performance of the circus, but this is just an empty promise. Jessi turns away from her father, disappointed. Pirate William signals to her that he wants his heart back and Jessi throws the stone into the water along with an amulet that her father had given her.
production
After Gritta von Rattenzuhausbeiuns, The Pirate's Heart was the second children's film directed by cameraman Jürgen Brauer. The pirate's heart was turned on the Black Sea and the Baltic Sea. Filming locations included Fischland-Darß-Zingst and Seedorf on Rügen. As a pirate ship, the traditional served Windjammer Sedov .
The film premiered on March 25, 1988 as part of the 26th Days of Children's and Youth Literature in the Magdeburg Theater of Peace. On April 8, 1988 it was shown in GDR cinemas.
criticism
The GDR's contemporary criticism praised the film. He has “a special atmosphere, a happy rhythm alternating between reality and dream, an unobtrusive, rather cautious basic gesture”. It is "admirable how sensitively the director leads his actors".
The film dienst called Das Herz des Piraten “an everyday story enriched with fantastic elements, sensitively staged and acted out, which depicts the worries and feelings of the main character with poetry and humor and also gives adults tips on how to understand children”.
Other critics wrote: "The story is told in beautiful pictures, sometimes in very dense and atmospheric scenes, which perfectly correspond to the poetic character of the literature." The film is "a plea for tolerance in dealing with one another, based on representatives of all ages."
Awards
The pirate's heart was given the state title “valuable”. At the children's film festival Goldenen Spatz the film won the prize in the feature film / television film category in 1989; Johanna Schall received an honorary diploma for her portrayal of her mother. Also in 1989, The Pirate's Heart was honored with the Critics' Prize The Big Flap as the best children's film for cinema and television in 1988.
literature
- The pirate's heart. In: DEFA Foundation (ed.): The DEFA fairy tale films . Zweiausendeins, Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-00-032589-2 , pp. 242–247.
- F.-B. Habel : The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , pp. 243-244 .
- The pirate's heart. 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. 370-372.
Web links
- The heart of the pirates in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The heart of the pirate at filmportal.de
- The heart of the pirate at the DEFA Foundation
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gisela Hoyer in The Morning. 23/24 April 1988.
- ↑ Hans-Dieter Tok: Augenweide, Herzerquicken. In: weekly mail. No. 19, 1988.
- ↑ The Pirate's Heart. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ The Pirate's Heart. In: Ingelore König, Dieter Wiedemann, Lothar Wolf (eds.): Between Marx and Muck. DEFA films for children . Henschel, Berlin 1996, p. 371.
- ↑ Cf. progress-film.de ( memento of the original from November 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
