The bog dog

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Movie
Original title The bog dog
Country of production GDR
original language German
Publishing year 1960
length 78 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Konrad Petzold
script Konrad Petzold
Signe Thiessen (scenario)
Dieter Scharfenberg (dramaturgy)
production DEFA
music Günter Hauk
camera Otto Merz
cut Use Peters
occupation

The Moor dog is a German children's film of the DEFA of Konrad Petzold from 1960. He experienced on December 25, 1960 at Berlin's Babylon cinema and cultural center of the German border police its premiere.

action

Twelve-year-old Klaus travels to Garnegen on vacation, where his father Suter leads the border troops as first lieutenant . They monitor an extensive moor area, in which, according to popular talk, the mysterious moor dog is supposed to live. Klaus tells an older woman in his train compartment and the border guards suddenly believe that they have seen the moor dog on a watch. It soon becomes clear to Suter that a German shepherd is crossing the border illegally as a messenger. The mole who directs the dog seems to be one of their own troops. Suter has to find the leak and therefore has little time for his son. Out of boredom, he secretly goes to the direct border area, a wooded moorland. Here he finds a dog in a cage and can soon gain his trust. Although he wants to tell his father about the dog, he is always away because of his work. Only the young Fritz finally does Klaus let in his secret.

Klaus makes the acquaintance of the fisherman who surprised him in the moor forest. He takes him to catch eel, but sends him away when Klaus thinks he sees a light on the horizon. One day when Suter has time for his son, they both go on a scavenger hunt . Klaus wants to lure his father to the dog kennel, but Suter is put on the wrong track by the fisherman who is the spy. Since his father does not appear, Klaus takes the dog, which has meanwhile got used to him, on a leash and comes out of the restricted area with him. Two border guards see Klaus with the dog, but the animal suddenly reacts to a whistle and runs away. Although Klaus can lead his father to the dog kennel, it is empty.

The border guards are now on heightened alert and are increasing their controls. The fisherman's dog loses its sleeve with the secret message on a border fence when it is used again. The case is found by border guards and the alarm is called. While the entire restricted area is being surrounded, the fisherman locks up his dog and destroys his radio equipment. When Klaus and Fritz discover the dog, Klaus Fritz alerts the border guards. He himself remains behind, is discovered and locked up by the fisherman, but can attach himself to the scent of the fisherman and the dog. The fleeing fisherman chases his dog on Klaus, who does nothing to him. The fisherman is caught by Suter shortly before he can flee in a rubber dinghy. Suter returns to the village with Klaus, Fritz and the dog.

criticism

Contemporary critics praised the film for “attempting to create long-awaited adventurous events using the example of a useful image of the present”. At the same time, Der Moorhund was criticized because Klaus was not held responsible for entering the forbidden restricted area: "In the film, [therefore] the impression must remain: Something forbidden is not bad if you are a hero afterwards."

For the lexicon of international films , Der Moorhund was a "[i] deologically tinted children's film that uses the work of the GDR border troops as a foil for an exciting holiday adventure."

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ch. Cz. in BZ in the evening , December 28, 1960.
  2. ↑ The Moor Dog. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed August 4, 2018 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used