The flying grandfather (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The flying grandfather |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1965 |
| length | 10 mins |
| Rod | |
| Director | Lothar Barke |
| script | Lothar Barke Erhard Mai (dramaturge) |
| production |
Helmut Eichhorn for DEFA-Studio for Animated Films , Dresden |
| music |
Conny Odd Addy Kurth |
| camera | Helmut Krahnert |
| cut | Eva d'Bomba |
The flying grandfather is a German animated short film by Lothar Barke from 1965. It is based on the children's book of the same name by Heinz Behling and Heinz Kahlow .
action
The grandfather drives his grandson for a walk in the stroller. Laughing kites dance in the wind in the sky and grandfather can't take his eyes off the spectacle. He crosses the street with the car without paying attention to the traffic and knocks over a beehive, the residents of which are now following angrily grandfather and pram. He doesn't notice, but grandfather and grandson flee when one of the dragons threatens to fall to earth. Then they flee from the angry swarm of bees.
On their way home, grandfather and grandchildren get material from the do-it-yourself shop Der kleine Hobbyler and rush to grandfather's apartment, where they are building a giant kite. The residents of the house, initially annoyed by the construction noise, are happy about the kite, with which grandfather and grandchildren will soon be floating in the sky. Grandmother, however, is concerned because they both forgot their scarfs. She fears a cold, organizes a big cart with cough syrup, and tries in vain to use a chimney sweep and the fire department to bring her scarf and hat to her husband and grandson who are hanging on the kite.
A thunderstorm comes up and grandfather and grandchildren seem to have gotten lost in the clouds, which saddened the grandmother. When the thunderclouds cleared, it became clear that both of them survived the turbulence well. After a while, grandfather looks at his watch and is amazed at what time it is. With his grandson he drops over an airport and slows down the fall with his open umbrella. The grandmother and her helpers are waiting on the ground. The two pilots are immediately dressed in scarfs and hats. The cough syrup truck pumps the first medicine onto a spoon. In the end, however, it is the grandmother who sneezes.
production
The flying grandfather is one of the 60 or so literary adaptations that were made in the DEFA studio for animated films. It was also one of four literary adaptations by the animator Lothar Barke. The flying grandfather is based on the children's book of the same name by Heinz Behling and Heinz Kahlow . The film was made in 1964: The animators of the film were Sieglinde Hamacher , Lothar Friedrich , Peter Müller and Karl-Heinz Hofmann . Heinz Drache and Klaus Noeske created the background .
The flying grandfather had its film premiere on March 26, 1965. It was one of the color films that were released as DEFA home films (Schmalfilm, No. 1009). In 2012 Icestorm released the film along with other GDR animated films on the DVD Alles Trick 1 .
criticism
In retrospect, the critics called the literary film adaptation “told so cheerfully and emotionally that it doesn't just widen the hearts of children. Without ostensibly moral instruction, human weaknesses and longings were picked up with fine wit and the audience children were encouraged to reflect on the things of the world in a subjective constellation. "
literature
- Ralf Schenk, Sabine Scholze (ed.), DIAF, DEFA-Stiftung (ed.): Die Trick-Fabrik. DEFA animation films 1955–1990 . Bertz, Berlin 2003, pp. 421-422.
Web links
- Flying Grandfather in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The flying grandfather at filmportal.de
- The flying grandfather on bcdb.com
- The flying grandfather on defa.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Klaus-Dieter Felsmann: Neger nobi and the flying windmill. Popular children's books from the GDR in animated films . In: Ralf Schenk, Sabine Scholze (ed.), DIAF, DEFA-Stiftung (ed.): Die Trick-Fabrik. DEFA animation films 1955–1990 . Bertz, Berlin 2003, p. 212.
- ↑ Klaus-Dieter Felsmann: Neger nobi and the flying windmill. Popular children's books from the GDR in animated films . In: Ralf Schenk, Sabine Scholze (ed.), DIAF, DEFA-Stiftung (ed.): Die Trick-Fabrik. DEFA animation films 1955–1990 . Bertz, Berlin 2003, p. 214.