The story of Monty Spinnerratz

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Movie
German title The story of Monty Spinnerratz
Original title A Rat's Tale
Country of production Germany ,
USA
original language German
English
Publishing year 1997
length 93 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
Rod
Director Michael F. Huse
script Werner Morgenrath ,
Peter Scheerbaum
production Hans Peter Clahsen
music Frédéric Talgorn
camera Piotr Lenar
cut Timothy McLeish
occupation

The story of Monty Spinnerratz is a fantasy children's film by Michael F. Huse from 1997. The studio project was realized by Monty Film in coproduction with Warner Bros. in both Germany and the USA and is the first feature film with the Augsburger Puppenkiste . The story is based on the American children's book A Rat's Tale by Tor Seidler .

action

In the labyrinth of the New York sewer system, busy rats, played by the puppets in the Augsburger Puppenkiste in the film, prevent Manhattan's sewage system from suffocating in flotsam and garbage. The millionaire real estate speculator Mr. Dollart is planning to build a parking garage in the disused port facilities and wants to destroy the rats living there in the sewer system beforehand. To this end, Mr. Dollart has a poison specially developed by Professor Plumpingham sprayed on the streets of the city.

However, Mr. Dollart did his math without the brave rat boy Monty Spinnerratz and the pretty rat girl Isabella Nobelratz. The two resolutely take up the fight against Mr. Dollart. Also in Great Rattenrat resistance is forming: Practiced in political platitudes where he founded Isabella's father, President Hugo Nobelratz, the action RdR ( saving the rats ). Because people only understand the language of money, the rats want to collect money and then buy the port facilities from Mr. Dollart. Meanwhile, the poison continues into the sewer system. The only remedy for the poison is the medicinal plant Sambucina. However, their supplies have been used up, so that the rats can no longer stop the catastrophe. Uncle Monty senior reminds his nephew Monty junior of the three mysterious mussels. Aunt Charlotte had brought them for him from Mexico. The clams are the key to the forgotten Indian cave of Mana-hatin, where sambucina still thrives.

When Mr. Dollart himself is hit by his poison and then collapses unconscious, Monty and Isabella recognize their chance and set off with the channel igator Charon on their way to Mana-hatin. After they have found the sambucina and healed Mr. Dollart with it, he thanks the two rats and decides to abandon the construction project.

useful information

  • Charon the sewer igator is not a character from the literature. In order to provide Isabella Nobelratz and Monty Spinnerratz with a fearless dialogue partner, as well as a means of transport through the storm sewers, the scriptwriters invented the sewer igator Charon. Charon's roost, the cemetery of outcast pets , is in Canal 237 . This number corresponds to the room number of the hotel from Stanley Kubrick's horror film Shining .
  • Since the derivation of the name Monty Spinnerratz from spinner and rat was less common at first, the film title sometimes appears in the spelling with just an "r". In the USA the film started with the title A Rat's Tale .
  • In contrast to the sets built for TV productions by the Augsburger Puppenkiste (including Jim Knopf and Lukas der Lokomotivführer , Urmel aus dem Eis ), the decorations for the cinema film in CinemaScope are on a scale of 1: 1, and the water is real. The film is the first project to be realized in the Warner Bros. studio complex in Bottrop , which was built in 1996 .

Awards

1997 went to Die Story von Monty Spinnerratz the Bavarian Film Prize in the category: Best Children's Film .

literature

  • Tor Seidler: The story of Monty Spinnerratz . Children's book. Thienemann, Stuttgart, ISBN 3-522-16976-X .
  • Werner Morgenrath: The story of Monty Spinnerratz. The book about the film. Franz Schneider, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-505-10635-6 .
  • Tor Seidler: The story of Monty Spinnerratz . Audio book read by Michael Harck for the children's book of the same name. Karussell, Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-933281-14-8 .

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