The dream ship (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The dream ship |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1956 |
| length | 85 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Herbert Ballmann |
| script | Kurt Bortfeldt |
| production | DEFA |
| music | Hans-Hendrik Wehding |
| camera | Walter Fehdmer |
| cut | Christa Wernicke |
| occupation | |
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The Love Boat is a German children's film of the DEFA of Herbert Ballmann from the year 1956th
action
The half-orphans Reni (13) and Rolf Gast (10) live with their grandmother in Berlin , while the mother works as a biologist on the Baltic Sea . The father died in World War II . When the mother Michaela informed her children in a letter that she wanted to get married again, the siblings, who often quarreled, agree: They do not want a new father, even if Michaela's fiancé Franz works as captain . The grandmother, who is often overwhelmed with the upbringing of both children, is also critical of a new connection with her daughter.
Nevertheless, the three of them travel to the Baltic Sea. Rolf in particular is disappointed, as the ocean liner presented by the captain turns out to be a small tug . The planned family reunification threatens to fail. Only a test drive on the tug breaks the ice, especially since everyone gets caught in a thunderstorm and Captain Franz can even save a ship in distress. The wedding between Franz and Michaela is decided. And Rolf is also happy: Franz is promoted to captain of a large ship.
production
The dream ship had its premiere on April 27, 1956 at the same time in Berlin's Babylon and in the DEFA-Filmtheater Kastanienallee. After The Mysterious Wreck (1954) and Der Teufel vom Mühlenberg (1955), it was the third collaboration between Herbert Ballmann and Kurt Bortfeldt.
If the film was still positively received at the premiere, the main film administration of the Ministry of Culture criticized the dream ship for its narrow-mindedness and awarded it the title “petty bourgeois”. At the film conference in 1958, the dream ship was given "only very limited socialist educational value".
criticism
Contemporary critics praised Das Traumschiff as a “breakthrough to a real children's film” and “as a promise” and said that “the combination of tension, humor and educational intentions has happily succeeded”.
For other critics, Das Traumschiff was "a good film, the secret of which perhaps only lies in the fact that one wanted to offer a tiny section of life and not all of the progress."
Looking back, Ingelore König, Dieter Wiedemann and Lothar Wolf criticized the fact that the conflicts of adults in the film sometimes seem to be more important than those of children. The image of the emancipated, working mother and at the same time "needy housewife with additional qualification as a biologist, who is actually constantly overwhelmed and in need of support" teaches fear today.
The film-dienst called Das Traumschiff an "entertaining film developed with a light hand".
literature
- F.-B. Habel : The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , pp. 623-624 .
- The dream ship . 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. 92-94.
Web links
- The Love Boat in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The dream ship at filmportal.de
- The dream ship at the DEFA Foundation
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b The dream ship . In: Ingelore König, Dieter Wiedemann, Lothar Wolf (eds.): Between Marx and Muck. DEFA films for children . Henschel, Berlin 1996, p. 94.
- ^ H. Albrecht in: National-Zeitung , May 3, 1956.
- ↑ HJ Stein in: Die Weltbühne , No. 23, 1956.
- ↑ The dream ship . In: Ingelore König, Dieter Wiedemann, Lothar Wolf (eds.): Between Marx and Muck. DEFA films for children . Henschel, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-89487-234-9 , p. 93.
- ↑ The dream ship. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .