The brave truant

Movie
Original title	The brave truant
Country of production	GDR
original language	German
Publishing year	1967
length	67 minutes
Rod
Director	Winfried Young
script	Wera , Claus Küchenmeister , Winfried Junge, Anne Pfeuffer (dramaturgy)
production	DEFA , KAG "Berlin"
music	Peter Gotthardt
camera	Claus Neumann
cut	Lotti Mehnert
occupation
André Kallenbach : Thomas Lohmann Hartmut Tietz : Dieter, Thomas' friend Günter Ott : Thomas' father Jessy Rameik : teacher Christoph Engel : school director Ilse Voigt : Grandma Kruger Susanne Weser : Little Andrea Lutz Erdmann : Doctor Dieter Stark : Host Karl-Heinz Liedko : ABV Ingo Kallenbach : brother of Thomas Uwe Hase : Sailor Hartmut Kopp : Young man with newspaper Gerhild Leider : pioneer leader Manfred Bendik : Photo reporter Eberhard Esche : Speaker

The brave truancy is a children's film from the year 1967 produced by the DEFA Studio for Feature Films, Artistic Working Group (KAG) “Berlin” . The documentary filmmaker Winfried Junge entered the plenary session of the Central Committee of the SED with drastic bans and restrictions . The children's film remained the director's only feature film production.

The strip was shown for the first time on December 17, 1967 in the Berlin film theater Kosmos and on December 12, 1973, on the eve of the pioneer's birthday, it was first broadcast on GDR television.

action

On a beautiful sunny day, Thomas from class 4a has to take the Berlin subway to one stop to get to school. But the day is too good to spend at school. So he decides to take the subway a little further and stroll through Berlin. He discovered a fire in the apartment and alerted the fire brigade . In this way he becomes a lifesaver for two small children who were in the apartment.

When the fire department wants to write down his name, he runs away. The next day the newspaper published a report on the heroic deed of the unknown boy and the teacher spoke about it in Thomas' class too. Thomas, however, cannot reveal himself because he lied to the teacher that he could not come to school the day before because of a toothache.

In the end, the fire brigade and the two rescued children can find him. They want to thank him for what he did and Thomas now admits that he skipped school and even lied to the teacher.

Reviews

“A lovable, partially too didactic children's film about a dreamy boy who understands responsibility and his environment, who learns that there is a difference between a dreamer who loves discovery and skips school and a true lazy man. With numerous authentic Berlin images that indicate the director's origins in the documentary sector. "

- Lexicon of international film

Others

In the film, historical residential buildings on Fischerinsel are shown at the location of the apartment fire, which were completely demolished a little later in the course of the new development of the quarter.

Web links

• The brave truants in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• The brave truant at filmportal.de
• The brave truant at the DEFA Foundation

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The brave truant. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 25, 2016 .