The lost ball
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The lost ball |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1959 |
| length | 26 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Kurt Weiler |
| script |
Wera kitchen master , Claus kitchen master |
| production | DEFA |
| music | Kurt Schwaen |
| camera | Götz Neumann |
| cut | Ursula Zweig |
| occupation | |
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The lost ball is a German short fiction film for children by DEFA by Kurt Weiler from 1959 .
action
In a kindergarten, one girl sits on the floor and draws a brightly colored ball on a large sheet of paper while the other children are already playing in the garden. When she's finished, she hangs the finished picture on the wall, is happy about how beautiful it has turned out and tells the children in the garden about it. Of course, they want to look at the picture immediately, but only the sheet of paper with a large, round hole hangs on the wall. The youngest boy discovers the ball, which has become self-employed, under a table and the girl asks the other children to play with it in the garden.
But suddenly the girl no longer has fun and just wants the ball for herself, since she painted it, but the other children no longer give it away. Suddenly a helicopter flew past the kindergarten, which the children find even more interesting, which is why they just leave the ball behind. The girl uses this opportunity to hide the ball under a bush. But she does not reveal that and blames the children for the fact that he is gone now. She even makes a very sad impression, so she is offered to take part in the other games. But even the youngest of the group's offer to play with his old tennis ball is turned down. Then she takes her ball out from under the bush and says that it is much nicer, but that it only belongs to her.
But playing alone is not fun, which is why she sits on the grass and watches the other children play. The ball uses the opportunity to disappear back into its sheet of paper on the wall. Since he can't get out of there, the girl now wants to play with the other children, but they won't let them. Now the girl stands sad and alone until the smallest boy comes and asks her to play. The tennis ball flies onto the street and is broken by a car, it was his favorite toy. The girl is sorry for that and she takes the picture with the ball from the wall and gives it to him. At this moment the ball bounces out of the sheet of paper again. So all children can play with the beautiful ball again.
production
The lost ball was shot on Agfa-Color and had its theatrical release on September 18, 1959 in the Berlin cinema Skala.
Margot Beichler was responsible for the dramaturgy.
criticism
In the magazine Deutsche Filmkunst Nr.:8/1960, Rolf Richter found that the film did not always achieve the beauty of the script. He had the impression that the children were acting too much on the director's commands and thereby losing their looseness.
literature
- F.-B. Habel : The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , pp. 731-732 .
Web links
- The lost ball at the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The lost ball at filmportal.de
- The lost ball at the DEFA Foundation
Individual evidence
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung of September 18, 1959, p. 7