The Troublemaker (1940)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The troublemaker |
 | |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1940 |
| length | 12 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Hans Held |
| production | Bavaria film art |
| music | Leo Leux |
The intruder is a German animated propaganda - short film from 1940, which in the cinema before the newsreel was shown.
action
The animals of the forest are awakening. A magpie sees a fox sneaking around in the forest and alerts the police bird and the rabbit father. For three siblings of the rabbit, the warning comes too late: the fox grabs the rabbit girl and takes her to her den. The two rabbit brothers, crying, tell a hedgehog what happened. He is already wearing his spiked uniform and is gathering his men to take to the field with them against the fox. He also asks the wasp squadron from the Bullenwiese wasp nest to help the hedgehogs fight the fox, and the wasps soar.
Meanwhile, the fox begins to heat a kettle for the rabbit girl and chops up firewood. With the help of the other animals of the forest, including the father rabbit, the hedgehogs are gradually catapulted to the burrow and soon nail the fox to a tree with their spiked uniform. Nevertheless, the fox can break free and hurries around in the forest. Now the wasps come down on him and stab him. Even that doesn't stop the fox from going back to its den. A rabbit throws eggs at the fox. When the egg-laying chicken wants to hatch its eggs directly on the catapult in a hurry, the fox tries to attack it and is killed by the stone falling on the catapult. Then the animals of the forest dance wildly.
Background information
Hans Held originally drew advertising cartoons and advertising drawings. During the war he headed the animation department of Bavaria, which, apart from the troublemaker, only produced non-political entertainment films, including The Adventures of Baron von Münchhausen - A Winter Journey .
The film has clear militaristic tendencies: the hedgehogs wear spiked uniforms and Wehrmacht helmets, while the wasps make the noises of dive bombers during flight and attack the fox in a fighter formation. Since the fox wore a brown color as a troublemaker, he aroused ministerial displeasure at a demonstration. They feared negative connotations with the Nazi ideology, which Hermann Göring dismissed as nonsense.
Excerpts from the film were shown on Arte in the documentary Hitler's dream of Mickey Mouse (Ulrich Stoll, 1999) . In 2011 the film was also released by Absolut Medien as part of the History of German Animated Films DVD series .
Web links
- The troublemaker in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Animation in the Nazi era . DVD booklet. absolut Medien, Berlin 2011, p. 6.
- ↑ Miss Mabel falls out of the ordinary: Everything by animation . In: Der Spiegel . No. 1 , 1949, p. 23 ( Online - Jan. 1, 1949 ).