The desert king of Brandenburg
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| Original title | The desert king of Brandenburg |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1973 |
| length | 82 minutes |
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| Director | Hans Kratzert |
| script | Hans Kratzert |
| production | DEFA , KAG "Babelsberg" |
| music | Günther Fischer |
| camera | Wolfgang Braumann |
| cut | Rita Hiller |
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The Desert King of Brandenburg is a DEFA German children's film directed by Hans Kratzert in 1973 .
action
In the first days after the end of the Second World War , 11-year-old Julius, who fled the fighting from Berlin, roams the country. His mother was killed in a bomb attack and his father was killed at the front. In a wooded area, near a dead German soldier, he finds a horse that he wants to take with him. When the liberated communist Kaiser roamed the same forest on his way to Berlin, Julius went into hiding. Only when Kaiser also wants to take the horse with him does he reveal himself and claim that it is his horse. As proof, he quickly calls it Olaf and overlooked the fact that it was a mare .
Arrived in the next town, Kaiser reports to the Red Army , which immediately assigns him to the ring as circus director. This is necessary because a circus arrived in Lindow almost at the same time, the director of which had run away. Kaiser is now trying to build up a game operation again. The biggest problem is that the lion has nothing to eat and the trainer refuses to go into the cage with a hungry lion. When the idea arose to satisfy hunger with the help of the horse, Julius flees with Olaf. On the way he meets the girl Ulrike with her grandmother and, with the help of Olaf, helps them to pull their handcart. Ulrike also helps him to get his horse back, which was kidnapped by a pusher to make meatballs out of it. He was then arrested for various other crimes.
Suddenly there is great excitement in the town, as the lion has broken out through the mischief of two cubs trying to annoy the animal. Now Julius is ready to sacrifice his Olaf to avoid greater damage. But since the lion knows horses from the circus, he leaves Olaf alone. They'll make a good circus act.
With this the task of Kaiser is fulfilled and he goes to Berlin with Julius.
production
The scenario comes from Dieter Schubert and Inge Desert and Dieter Wolf was responsible for the dramaturgy .
The desert king of Brandenburg was filmed on ORWO color based on the literary model of the same name by Dieter Schubert by the group "Babelsberg" and had its preview on August 4, 1973 in the Kosmos cinema in Berlin as part of the X. World Youth Games . Another preview took place on September 22, 1973 at the Days of Socialist Film in Magdeburg. The festive premiere took place at the same time as the cinema release on October 5, 1973 in the Babylon . Filming locations for the city scenes were Belzig and for the circus square scenes Werder .
The lion that was out of Leipzig Zoo actually escaped during the filming, although experts found the safety measures to be sufficient. He was shot while trying to recapture him.
criticism
The daily newspaper Neue Zeit found that the adults were portrayed in a very primitive way and that the children were unlikely to have understood the typical post-war situation with the Russian dialogues. The farmer's response noticed that the creators had succeeded in making important details of the development in the difficult years of that time understandable. The film never loses its cheerful, optimistic tone.
literature
- F.-B. Habel : The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , pp. 701 .
Web links
- The Desert King of Brandenburg in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The desert king of Brandenburg at filmportal.de
- The desert king of Brandenburg at the DEFA Foundation