The children of the blue mountains
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The children of the blue mountains |
| Original title | Barna från Blåsjöfjället |
| Country of production | Sweden |
| original language | Swedish |
| Publishing year | 1980 |
| length | 97 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK o. A. |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jonas Sima |
| script |
Jonas Sima , Björn Norström |
| production | Bert Sundberg |
| music | Bernt Rosengren |
| camera | Rune Ericson |
| cut | Leave Lundberg |
| occupation | |
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The Children of the Blue Mountains is a Swedish children's adventure film directed by Jonas Sima in 1980 . The film is a modern version of the film "Barnen från Frostmofjället" (1945) which is based on the plot of the book of the same name by Laura Fitinghoff .
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After their mother dies, the six children Ante, Lena, Anna-Lisa, Månke, Pär-Erik and Märta-Stina Olofsson decide to stick together and stay together. They set off on their skis and bulk sledges to see their father in Stockholm to prevent them from being put in a home or being distributed to foster families. On their way they are accompanied by their goat Gullspira.
When they have struggled through a snow storm, they come across a small snow hut where Lasso-Lassi is watching a western film. He tells them how he lives as a Lappe and tries to keep his reindeer herd together just like the kids do. You spend the night with him, get something to eat and set off again the next day to cover the 700-kilometer route to Stockholm. Suddenly a helicopter appears that is already looking for the children. They hide quickly and Lasso-Lassi drives away the intruder with his lasso. He means to the pilot to turn away with wild gestures before his animals go crazy.
At a river, the six siblings meet an old man who is swimming by sitting on an ice floe. The children cross over to the ice floe and swim with him for a few kilometers. He tells the children where he comes from and that he is also on a journey. When the children want to move on and come to the shore with the clod, it suddenly drifts with the man and little Märta-Stina near a rapids. The children screech and almost panic when they see the danger. At that moment the helicopter appears again. He can pick up the man and the little girl by means of a cable pull and disappears with them on the horizon.
The children, who are now only five, move on. The helicopter appears repeatedly over a slope and triggers an avalanche that buries the children and the goat under itself. But the children get away with the horror and dig their way out of the snow. You finally come to a train station. A train with freight cars is pulling up there and is stopping. The train driver checks the axles while the children climb into a carriage.
Here they meet Vattudals Joel, a sturdy man in cowboy gear. He offers the children to drink and tells of his adventures and that he dreams of unlimited freedom on the rails in America. When the children tell him about their plan, he offers to help. He lets the train stop and shows them the way to an inn where his former love, Hulda Krok, works. With a greeting for her and an iron nail, which he gives the children as a sign for Hulda, he lets them go into the darkness.
When they arrive at the inn, the children check that everything is in order. Hulda Krok is putting a salad plate by the window. The goat climbs up and helps itself to the delicacy. When Hulda notices this, she gets a shock and backs away in horror. The children identify themselves, show them the souvenir and request admission for one night.
They are catered for in the kitchen of the house. Uno Hus, the landlord, the children experience, is waiter, receptionist and cook at the same time. Before the children go to their rooms to go to sleep, Ante and Lena decide that Pär-Erik should stay with the innkeepers for the time being, because that way they would get to their destination faster without the bulk sledge.
The next morning Uno Hus looks at the newspaper and learns that the children are wanted. Hulda Krok tries to appease him. When he looks out the window, he sees the four children running up and away with the goat. He tries to stop her, but the kids are too far away.
Soon afterwards, the children come across a sentry on the edge of a grove, who is part of a troop holding a maneuver. He takes the children with him. There they get something to eat in the field kitchen. The children want to take a rest. They are put into military clothing to hide them. When the captain of the troops receives a message that children are being wanted, he lets them count. The children mingle with the crowd. The captain now reports on the wanted children. In an unobserved moment, they can flee with their goats.
Meanwhile, the captain sends a scout team on skis and runs with them himself. They hope to find not only the children, but also comrades who have left the troops without permission. The latter are enjoying an ice bath, stark naked, that they take after a sauna session. When their supervisor arrives with the others, there is a very funny argument, which the children listen to behind snow-covered trees and laugh at each other.
On their way the children come to a lonely house in the evening. Through a window they see the news on television. An interview with her father is being shown in front of the house in the mountains. Ante orders that they continue on their way to Stockholm, after all, her father is there. The girls ask him how he knew. Månke replies that all TV programs come from Stockholm, so her papa has to be there.
In a clearing in the forest, Ante stops a loaded moving truck that comes from Norway. The children ask the driver to be allowed to ride. To haul Gullspira into the hold, they distract him. Månke and Anna-Lisa get in the back, while Ante and Lena take a seat in the driver's cab. The next morning they arrive in Stockholm. But they are stopped again by the police who are controlling the truck. In the hold, a policeman discovers the goat's backside and wonders what kind of animal it is. The children in the hold are hiding under a blanket in the hope of not being discovered. When the cargo hold door is locked again, Gullspira makes a moan. The police officer carelessly means to his colleague that it is now clear what it is about and that no further attention has to be paid to the matter, after all, the goat could also be part of the moving freight.
Once in Stockholm, the children take the subway and then arrive at a tunnel construction site, where they suspect their father. At the entrance to the tunnel there is a TV broadcast van that the children initially ignore. As they go into the tunnel, an explosion goes off there. The children are lucky again and continue on their way. At the end of the tunnel they suddenly appear unexpectedly in front of a crowd waiting for a section of the railway to be opened. The television is also on site. In the TV car, the director sees what is happening on a monitor. An employee brings the children from the tunnel to the car. There the director establishes a connection to another station and the children's father appears on the monitor, with which they can now establish contact. They are glad, happy and relieved to have found their father.
A helicopter brings the children back home to the blue mountains. There they are already expected by their father, who happily welcomes them.