The great adventure of Kaspar Schmeck
| Television series | |
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| Original title | The great adventure of Kaspar Schmeck |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| year | 1982 |
| Production company |
DEFA |
| length | 191 (176) minutes |
| Episodes | 3 in 1 season |
| genre | Adventure series |
| Director | Gunter Friedrich |
| idea | Manfred Richter |
| production | Volkmar Leweck |
| music | Gunther Erdmann |
| camera | Peter Süring |
| First broadcast | 1st - 3rd January 1982 on television of the GDR |
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The great adventure of Kaspar Schmeck is a television series of the television of the GDR by director Gunter Friedrich from 1982. While the original was broadcast in three parts, the series in the broadcast on ARD in 1983 consisted of four episodes and was 15 minutes shorter. The series is based on the book of the same name The great adventure of Kaspar Schmeck (also mercenary without pay ) by the author Alex Wedding, the pseudonym of Grete Weiskopf , from 1948.
action
1776 in Hesse : The country's father, Landgrave Friedrich , allows England to recruit 12,500 soldiers for the American War of Independence in his country in return for cash payments . The series tells the story of the young kitchen boy Kaspar Schmeck, who is recruited and travels to North America in a group of soldiers. The film adaptation adheres to the historical circumstances in terms of language, costumes and backdrops. The details and fates are made up.
characters
Fifteen-year-old Kaspar Schmeck comes from a poor family in a cobbler household in Kassel. He works as a kitchen boy in an inn where the former officer Emmerich lives as a permanent guest. When the advertisers come to town, he persuades the boy to go to America with him. Behind his back, he regulates the reporting as voluntary and collects the reward for it, which enables him to redeem his pledged uniform and thus advance his military career. In the course of the story, he exploited Schmeck's trust several times to safeguard his interests. So he persuades Kaspar to spy on the troops and repeatedly demands proof of loyalty from him, which ultimately leads to the death of Kaspar's friend Anselm. Count Friedrich von der Lippe basically corresponds to Friedrich II of Hessen-Kassel , who operated the soldier trade with Great Britain. The group of soldiers is diverse, including the student Anselm and especially the barber Ambrosius as caregivers. The older Ambrosius acts as the boy's fatherly friend and provides him with advice and assistance. Kaspar shares a tender love with Gundel, which through its violent end leads to Kaspar's change of opinion regarding the war and his relationship with Emmerich. This is portrayed as a brutal flayer, who nevertheless achieved the rise from captain to major.
Locations
Was shot u. a. in Saxony-Anhalt, so in Quedlinburg , in Halberstadt and in Westerburg Castle . The ship scenes were filmed in Bulgaria on the Black Sea.
music
The DEFA Symphony Orchestra Babelsberg plays with Otto Rühlemann on the panpipe.