Dreamgate
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| Original title | Dreamgate |
| Country of production | Germany / Spain |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2000 |
| length | 90 minutes |
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| Director | Brigitta Dresewski |
| script | Jörn Schröder |
| production | Frank A. Thomas |
| music | Jens Fischer |
| camera | Eberhard Scheu |
| cut | Ines Rehder |
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Dreamgate (English: Traumtor, also called Dreamgate - A Fantastic Story ) is a German fantasy youth film from the year 2000, most of which is set on the island of Heligoland . The ninety-minute film, which premiered on KiKA on December 30, 2000 , also exists as a four-part miniseries .
action
The structure of this section follows the four-part miniseries that together make up the film.
episode 1
The plot of the film begins in Australia. The youthful Andrew is on a fishing boat off the Australian coast. He is swallowed by a large blue whale. His fishing boat remains in the sea. At the same time, fourteen-year-old Antje made several puzzling discoveries on the German island of Helgoland . First she finds a clam from the Great Barrier Reef and shortly thereafter she appears just like Andrew the blue whale - accompanied by an enigmatic song. She tells some friends about it, but nobody believes her. When he encounters the blue whale again, Andrew is washed up off the coast of Heligoland, but cannot remember where he came from. The Beachcombers, a clique of five young people, are trying to find out where Andrew is from and why he is now on Heligoland. The German-American Alice, who translates between Andrew and Antje, is of great help here. Another mystery concerns the origins of Antje's father Christian, who was pulled out of the sea by Jan (his current father-in-law) 26 years ago.
Episode 2
A first clue of Andrew's identity is provided by a signet ring that his father gave him and that can be assigned to the von Remstedts, an aristocratic family that died out in 1974. Another connection emerges when he records Gut Hasselburg (referred to in the film as "Schloss Hasselburg") from his memory - the place of residence of the von Remstedt family. Antje's parents and grandfather recognize that Andrew is very similar to Christian in his youth. Antje, Alice and Andrew visit Hasselburg Castle and meet the manager Hubertus Gessler, who was also active at the time when the von Remstedts were still living in Hasselburg. He also notices the similarity between Andrew and the von Remstedts' sons, but says nothing about it. Regarding the von Remstedts, he explains that they had planned a circumnavigation and that their boat probably went down in the Bay of Biscay . To Antjes and Alice's astonishment, Andrew also knows his way around Hasselburg Castle, but cannot explain this due to his memory loss. Gessler keeps the ring under a pretext. Meanwhile, the Australian police bring the news to Andrew's parents that the fishing boat has been found empty offshore. Here the viewer sees that Andrew's father and Antje's father look the same and that the Wilson Mansion - Andrew's parents' house - and Gut Hasselburg are also the same, but in contrast to the estate, it is surrounded by (sub) tropical vegetation.
Episode 3
Antje's grandfather Jan tells his granddaughter that when he was pulled out of the sea, Christian also wore a signet ring with a crown and a bull's head. From a Mr. Rasmussen, who was harbor master in Tönning until his retirement , Antje, Andrew and Alice learn that the sailing ship was called the von Remstedts Cetacea (in German: blue whale) and that the two sons were twins. From him they also learn of the similarity between Andrew and the twins, which they have always been kept from them until now. The harbor master also tells them that Gessler was still on the Cetacea the night before she left the ship and left the ship with oil-smeared hands. Gessler denies that the ring has anything to do with the Remstedts. When the children confront him with the harbormaster's stories and want to call the police because Gessler does not want to pull out the ring, Gessler suddenly becomes - contrary to his previous temperament - very friendly and reports that the children were very close to him at the time, that he had that He only accepted Erbe with a heavy heart and always hoped that one of the von Remstedts would have survived. Antje tells him that this is actually the case, whereupon Gessler becomes aggressive again.
Episode 4
The beachcombers lure Gessler to Heligoland with the help of an anonymous letter in which they describe their knowledge. Meanwhile Andrew remembers more and more and he tells the Beachcombers about the wave that hit him in Australia. Andrew's father, still unaware of his son's fate, says that he remembers his own story and is certain that he is still alive - it remains unclear whether he is referring to Andrew or Christian. Antje tells Christian that she found out that he is descended from the Remstedts. He tells the story of the sinking of the Cetacea for the first time. The yacht was caught in a storm off Heligoland and Christian, who was on watch, started the diesel engine. The boat overturned. Christian thinks it was his fault. Gessler comes to Helgoland and meets the Beachcombers. Antje tells Gessler almost word for word what Christian told her. Gessler admits to having tampered with the boat with a bomb the night before it left the port and threatens Andrew, Christian, Jan and the Beachcombers with a gun, but is killed by the whale, who also took Andrew to Helgoland (and Christoph before 26 Years to Australia), moved into the sea. Recovering from memory, Andrew tells that his family lives in Cairns , Queensland . This is where the reunification of the two siblings takes place.
background
The film was in the late summer of 2000 in Schleswig-Holstein (including the island of Helgoland and on Good Hasselburg) and on to Spain belonging Canary Island of Fuerteventura from the Film & TV project consulting Frank. A. Thomas produced on behalf of North German Radio and Swiss Television (SF DRS) . Already during the filming it was planned to broadcast Dreamgate both as a film and as a four-part series. The film was first broadcast in Germany on December 30, 2000 on KiKA , the miniseries followed in April 2001. In Switzerland, the film was first broadcast on May 20, 2001 on SF 2 . The production of the film was funded by the MSH Society for the Promotion of Audiovisual Works in Schleswig-Holstein . For Willy Bartelsen, who died in the summer of 2001, the role of Jan Petersen was the last role.
Web links
- Dream Gate in the Internet Movie Database (English)