The trip to Sundevit (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The trip to Sundevit |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1966 |
| length | 75 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Heiner Carow |
| script | Heiner Carow, Benno Pludra |
| production | DEFA , KAG "Youth and Children's Films" |
| music |
Karl-Ernst Sasse Wolfgang Ziegler |
| camera | Jürgen Brauer |
| cut | Erika Lehmphul |
| occupation | |
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The Journey to Sundevit is a German children's film by DEFA by Heiner Carow from 1966 . It is based on the children's book of the same name by Benno Pludra , who was also involved in the script.
action
The young Tim Tammer lives with his family in the small village of Möwenort. His father is a lighthouse keeper on the Baltic Sea. Tim is often alone, especially during the summer holidays. His friends are then built sand figures with which he reenacts Treasure Island . One day, not far from the lighthouse, Tim meets a group of pioneers who have pitched their tents on the beach. He befriends the group around the young people Hermann and Addi and is saddened when the group wants to travel on after a few days. They plan to go to Sundevit and invite Tim to come with them. Tim's parents allow him the trip, which should start at noon. Shortly before, Tim wanted to bring his friend, old Heinrich Bradenkuhl, the glasses he had forgotten in the lighthouse, despite his father's reservations about the time. Bradenkuhl works in Trempin, several kilometers away, and Tim rushes into the village by bike. He is supposed to take a hose for the LPG from there and deliver it to a village on his way. In the village, on the other hand, he is asked by an old woman to bring her grandson Herbertchen, who works with the combine, a mug of tea to the field. Although Tim thinks that he has no time, he fulfills the woman's wish. In the field, on the other hand, the hose on the combine that Tim had brought to the LPG just broke. Desperate, Tim fetches the hose and then races back towards the lighthouse. He falls and the front tire of his bike is dented. The pessimistic coachman Brom takes Tim to the lighthouse and blames Tim for his misery: Help is only useful if you can benefit from it yourself. Bradenkuhl could also have thought of his glasses and the old woman could have given her grandson her tea on the field early on.
When Tim arrives at the lighthouse, the pioneer group has disappeared. You left him a note. It should follow, it says. Tim's father also tells him that Addi and Hermann in particular wanted Tim to come along. They want to wait for him in Fährdorf until the last ferry arrives. However, it is 30 kilometers to Fährdorf and it is already late so that Tim should not leave. After consulting with his stone friends, Tim sets out anyway and leaves his parents a note. He hitchhikes a long way to Gresenhorst and wants to cover the last way to Fährdorf on the beach, as this is the shortest way. Suddenly he encounters a barrier - the boundary of the training area of the NVA . Tim climbs resolutely over the barbed wire fence and starts running. Suddenly he finds himself in the middle of a military exercise. Soldiers pick him up and bring him back to the local police in Gresenhorst. Tim is desperate because the last ferry will cast off in 15 minutes, but the section representative gives him the choice: Back to the lighthouse or spend the night in Gresenhorst and see the next morning. Tim first looks around Gresenhorst and hopes to see one of the pioneers. Instead, he meets his friend, the youngster Kalli, who is in Gresenhorst to dance, owns a motorcycle and actually wants to flirt with a young woman. He promises to take Tim to Fährdorf by motorcycle in half an hour, but makes Tim wait longer. Even though the last ferry has already left, Kalli finally brings Tim to Fährdorf and he spends the night on a ship excavator with workers. They talk to Tim's father on the phone and inform him of his son's whereabouts. They also learned that the pioneers are 15 kilometers away and are not in Sundevit. They had come this far the day before and Tim thinks they never waited for him. The next morning he was standing at the harbor, disappointed, when suddenly Hermann was standing behind him. The pioneers were lucky enough to be able to hitchhike and got ahead of schedule the day before. They don't want to leave for Sundevit until the next day. Hermann phoned Tim's father and he gave his consent that Tim could go with the pioneers if Hermann finds him. Tim Hermann happily joins them.
production
The trip to Sundevit is based on the story of the same name by Benno Pludra from 1965. The film was shot from 1965 on, among other places, on the Baltic Sea. It had its premiere on May 20, 1966 and ran in October 1966 at the IFF in Mannheim. The film premiered on GDR television on September 30, 1967 on DFF 1 .
The set design is by Georg Wratsch , the costumes were created by Wolfgang Friedrichs .
criticism
Contemporary critics praised the fact that the fable was “designed in a child-friendly and timely manner, captivating for the young audience.” The fable was also “simple and yet not devoid of inner tension.” The film was artistically successful and educationally valuable, especially since it is children and adults touch.
The acting performance of the main actor Ralf Strohbach, who came from Stralsund, was highlighted . “As soon as 'Tim' can play - when running in the maneuvering area, for example - his anger, fear, and sadness appear completely real.” Other critics admitted that “since 'Serjosha' […] they have not had such an attractive, expressive child's face in the film "Have seen:" Everything can be read from his eyes, his facial expressions ".
For the film service , Die Reise nach Sundevit was “a recommendable family film with a very detailed character drawing of the children, which unobtrusively pleads for mutual respect and help.” Looking back, other critics called the film “one of the most successful adaptations of a children's book” in the GDR .
Awards
The film received the rating “Particularly valuable” in the GDR and was awarded a certificate at the Mannheim Youth Film Festival in 1966.
Director Heiner Carow, cameraman Jürgen Brauer and dramaturge Gudrun Rammler were awarded the Heinrich Greif First Class Prize in 1967 as a film collective for Die Reise nach Sundevit .
literature
- F.-B. Habel : The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , pp. 479-480 .
- The trip to Sundevit . In: Ingelore König, Dieter Wiedemann, Lothar Wolf (eds.): Between Marx and Muck. DEFA films for children . Henschel, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-89487-234-9 , pp. 157-159.
Web links
- The trip to Sundevit in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The trip to Sundevit at filmportal.de
- The trip to Sundevit at the DEFA Foundation
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b e.o .: Excursion with many obstacles . In: Neue Zeit , June 7, 1966.
- ↑ Horst Knietzsch: Brush head with bright eyes . In: Neues Deutschland , April 24, 1966.
- ↑ Anneliese Gottschalk in: Deutsche Volkszeitung , January 31, 1969.
- ↑ I mean the Soviet feature film Serjoscha by Igor Wassiljewitsch Talankin from 1960.
- ↑ Ursula Frölich: Family excursion to Sundevit . In: Wochenpost , No. 24, 1966.
- ^ The trip to Sundevit. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ^ The trip to Sundevit . In: Ingelore König, Dieter Wiedemann, Lothar Wolf (eds.): Between Marx and Muck. DEFA films for children . Henschel, Berlin 1996, p. 158.
- ↑ See Die Reise nach Sundevit on Progress Film-Verleih ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .
- ↑ Cf. Die Reise nach Sundevit on defa-stiftung.de
