Little Kuno
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Little Kuno |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1959 |
| length | 52 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Kurt Jung-Alsen |
| script | Peter Brock |
| production | DEFA |
| music | Gerhard Wohlgemuth |
| camera | Otto Merz |
| cut | Friedel Welsandt |
| occupation | |
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The small Kuno is a German children's film of the DEFA of Kurt Jung-Alsen from the year 1959 .
action
Little Kuno is sitting with several friends on the platform of a district town to go back to his hometown after the GDR birthday celebrations . Two workers from the locomotive plant are waiting with him , who are going to the night shift in which they want to hand over a locomotive ahead of schedule on the occasion of the anniversary. Once at the destination, a well-known black singer gets off the train and is warmly welcomed by many people. Kuno also greets him and ties his pioneer scarf around him, where he is photographed. Since his father, who picks him up, has to go to work, he asks the older woman Plünnecke to put his boy in bed. When Kuno is in bed and Frau Plünnecke has left, he gets up again and dresses completely, because he really wants to keep watching the fire brigade putting out a fire on the way home.
The fire brigade is just finishing their extinguishing work and Kuno takes the opportunity to hide in an ambulance with the door open, into which a girl who has inhaled too much smoke is brought into after him. Both children are taken to a hospital where they are examined, but the doctor cannot find any symptoms with Kuno. A check reveals that Kuno was not officially in the ambulance, which is why the People's Police are notified, which are supposed to track down his parents. Kuno hears that, quickly gets dressed and disappears from the hospital. On the way he meets in front of a barracks of the NVA a soldier there on sentry stands. He talks to him, but the conversation has to be interrupted because many soldiers leave the barracks with their vehicles to rehearse again for the military parade for the Republic's birthday the next day.
His path continues to the city's cultural center, where he watches the adults dancing through a window. The event is also televised and by chance Kuno ends up in the outside broadcast van . When he sees the black singer on the monitors , he runs out because he wants to see him. Here he runs straight into the arms of the crew of a patrol car who are looking for him. The policemen deliver Kuno to his father, who works as a typesetter in a printing company. A reporter from the newspaper who was present took over the task of taking the boy to his mother in the tram depot, who worked there as a conductor and was about to go home . But first he has to go to the plant where locomotives are built to photograph the handover of one. Here Kuno meets the two workers, whom he already knows from his train journey, who explain the whole locomotive to him and even drive a bit with him. Then it goes back to the direction of the tram, the reporter stops one and is lucky that even Kuno's mother is sitting there, who has just finished work.
Kuno tells her all of his experiences from last night and that he actually wants to learn every profession he got to know here, of course only when he grows up. Then his mother takes him to bed at home and his last words before going to sleep are: “When I grow up, I'll be a negro”.
production
Little Kuno was shot as a black and white film and had its celebratory premiere during the 1st GDR Workers' Festival in Halle (Saale) . The general cinema release for the GDR began on June 12, 1959. It was first broadcast on German television on October 29, 1962.
Gudrun Rammler was responsible for the dramaturgy.
criticism
In New Germany Horst Knietzsch remarked :
“'Little Kuno' is not a 'big' film, with all the bombastic claims that 'big' films so often unjustifiably make. It is a small, good film, in some details of its design exemplary for modern, socialist children's films. "
reception
The author Peter Brock worked out his script for the children's book Der kleine Kuno (1963).
literature
- F.-B. Habel : The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , pp. 726-727 .
Web links
- The small Kuno in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Little Kuno at filmportal.de
- Little Kuno at the DEFA Foundation
Individual evidence
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung of June 17, 1959, p. 3
- ↑ Neue Zeit of October 28, 1962, p. 8
- ↑ Neues Deutschland from June 18, 1959, p. 5