Red Zora and her gang (TV series)
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The red Zora and her gang |
| Country of production | Yugoslavia , Switzerland , FRG |
| year | 1979 |
| length | 30 minutes |
| Episodes | 13 |
| genre | Children's and youth series |
| Director | Fritz Umgelter |
| music |
Rolf Unkel Theme music: Christian Bruhn |
| First broadcast | August 27, 1979 (Switzerland) |
| German-language first broadcast |
January 1, 1980 |
| occupation | |
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The Red Zora and Her Gang is a 13-part television series from 1979. It is based on the novel The Red Zora and Her Gang by Kurt Held and was filmed and broadcast as a German-Swiss-Yugoslav co-production. Fritz Umgelter was responsible as the director and co-author of the script , who was able to rely on the work of Bora Ćosić and Rainer Söhnlein in addition to the original author . The episodes were shot mainly in the Croatian city of Senj .
In 2008 a film was made based on the novel, Die Rote Zora .
action
In the Croatian coastal town of Senj , orphans living on the fringes of society come together under the leadership of a girl who, because of her red hair , is called Rote Zora . The citizens of the city treat the destitute children like outcasts. Wild pranks are the reactions of the troops. In order to survive, the children become criminals, but within their community they adhere to fixed rules. Your top priority is solidarity. They call themselves Uskoks . The only one who feels connected to them is the old fisherman Gorian. The children help him to assert himself against the big fishing companies.
Radio play version
In 1979 Intercord released a three-part radio play version on record, which was based on the soundtrack of the television series. It was a production by Tele-Norm-Film GmbH and INMUS . The texts came from Fritz Umgelter and Matthias Deyle . The music came from Rolf Unkel , the theme music from Christian Bruhn . Contributing speakers were Inez Günther (Zora), Klaus Höhne , Imo Heite , Suzanne Doucet , Uwe Falkenbach , Thomas Braut , Holger Ungerer , Erich Schleyer , Edgar Mandel , Sabina Trooger (Branko), Matthias Deyle, Hannes Kaetner , Christina Hoeltel and Benno Sterzenbach (Gorian). The individual parts of the radio play Die Rote Zora were
- LP 1: Branko joins the gang; The fisherman Gorian
- LP 2: Escape to the mountains; Of witches, fish and ghosts
- LP 3: The fish that becomes a dog; The Uskoks are dead - long live the Uskoks.
Web links
- The red Zora and her gang in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Episode guide
- Background information on the original locations
Individual evidence
- ↑ 1–1.pdf The castle of the red Zora ( 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.
- ↑ The Castle of the Red Zora ( Memento from July 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 349 kB)
- ↑ Die Rote Zora ( Memento from January 30, 2019 in the Internet Archive ), on www.br.de.
