The hedgehog friendship

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Movie
Original title The hedgehog friendship
Country of production GDR , Czechoslovakia
original language German , Czech
Publishing year 1962
length 65 minutes
Rod
Director Herrmann Zschoche
script Martin Quarter
Herrmann Zschoche
production DEFA , KAG “Red Circle”
Film Studio Barrandov , Rouha-Jelínek Group
music Milos Vacek
camera Josef Novotný
cut Jiřina Lukešová
occupation

The Hedgehog Friendship is a German-Czechoslovak children's film by Herrmann Zschoche from 1962 . The Czechoslovak title is Uprchlík .

action

Heiner attends the third grade of the elementary school in Jugeltal on the Czechoslovak border. In his spare time he likes to carve, so he has just carved a flute while he is sitting at the border brook Jugelbach . He plays a song and delights the border guards on both sides of the Jugelbach, who play him a tune from their country. Heiner is practicing the polka melody when the border guards have left. Suddenly he sees a hedgehog eagerly swimming through the Grenzbach to the tune and approaching it. Heiner is enthusiastic and takes the hedgehog he calls František with him to Jugeltal. The hedgehog has a marker ring on its hind leg and Heiner's father realizes that the hedgehog must belong to someone. He instructs Heiner to put the animal back where he found it. The hedgehog runs after Heiner when he abandons him, so the boy takes him back to Jugeltal and hides him in the garden. In the following days, he digs up earthworms for him and behaves negatively towards his best friend Felix, since he has a dog that could be dangerous to the hedgehog.

The pioneers from the Czechoslovak border town invite the pioneers from Jugeltal to a pioneer festival. Heiner carves a miner as a welcome present and receives a painted plate from the Czechoslovak girl Jana at the party. Heiner spends the whole day with Jana, both of them swing and finally look at the rabbits that the school breeds. Heiner's school is also planning to start breeding rabbits. The most beautiful animal is fluffy and white and goes by the name of Mirka. Heiner and Jana escape and they both laugh. Suddenly Jana is sad, Mirka remains sitting at an empty bowl. It belonged to the hedgehog Vazek, who was very affectionate but one day just left to explore the world. Heiner realizes that his František actually belongs to Jana and the other children and is saddened.

Back in Jugeltal the problems pile up, so the mother wants to harvest the pumpkins in whose bed František previously lived. In addition, a fox is up to mischief in the area, which is also after hedgehogs. In this way, Heiner František can save František from the fox that night and takes him to school the next day for safety. A large package arrives here one day. Mirka is in it and Jana writes in a letter to Heiner that she was sad that Mirka was being given away, but that only the best is good enough for friends. She complains that Vazek has not returned yet. Heiner gets a guilty conscience. He takes František to the Grenzbach, but the hedgehog is undecided. Without further ado, Heiner decides to take him to Jana's village. He is caught by the border guards when he has just got stuck in a deep morass. As a secret border crosser with a "stabbing weapon" (hedgehog) he is brought to the commander of the border guards, who is serious at first and takes the hedgehog's footprints, but in the end turns out to be Jana's father and is happy that his daughter and the other school children are now their Vazek have again. Jana is called and dances enthusiastically around the police station with Heiner.

production

The hedgehog friendship was based on the story of the same name by Martin Viertel, who was also involved in the script. After Das Märchenschloß it was the second children's film that Herrmann Zschoche made. The costumes were created by Ilse Winkle and Růžena Adamcová , the film construction came from Paul Lehmann and Jaroslav Krška . The hedgehog friendship had its premiere in the GDR on March 25, 1962 and was shown in GDR cinemas on April 2, 1962. On October 28, 1978, the film was shown on GDR 1 for the first time on GDR television.

criticism

Contemporary critics praised the film, which, thanks to the director's leadership, has "nothing spurious and posed, neither in language nor in presentation". The depiction of the hedgehog was felt to be child-friendly, as a music lover and runaway it has a "life of its own". Frank-Burkhard Habel called the film "an all-round success, both in the credibility of the story and in the implementation".

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Os: going to the cinema with children . In: Tomorrow , April 26, 1962.
  2. ↑ Ursula Geißler: Hero and role model in children's films . In: Deutsche Filmkunst , No. 7, 1962, p. 266ff.
  3. ↑ F.-B. Habel : The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , pp. 264 .