A case for TKKG: Dragon's Eye

Movie
Original title	A case for TKKG: Dragon's Eye
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1992
length	84 minutes
Age rating	FSK 6
Rod
Director	Ulrich König
script	Rolf Kalmuczak , Inka-Maria Kalmuczak
production	Bernd Eichinger , Peter Zenk , Sabine Eichinger
music	Fritz Muschler , Bernie Paul , Frank Zander
camera	Leander Loosen
cut	Hannes Nikel
occupation
Tomi Renjak : Tim (voice: Ziad Regheb ) Max Sittel : Karl (voice: Mario Liberatore ) Steffen Raddatz : Dumplings Sanny van Heteren : Gaby (voice: Tina Sauermann ) Wolfgang Stumph : Commissioner Glockner Jörg Pleva : Schindler Wilfried Baasner : brain bird Ludger Burmann : Schratt Volker Prechtel : Albrecht von Zehrenstein Christine Neubauer : Trauthilde, Albrecht's wife

A case for TKKG: Dragon's Eye is the first feature film after the successful youth crime series TKKG .

action

After dogs kidnapped for sale to an animal research facility, one of the dogs leads the TKKG gang to a small hole in the forest. It is the entrance to an underground labyrinth riddled with traps. There TKKG find an inscription that indicates the whereabouts of the legendary sword Dragon's Eye. They tell their history teacher Schindler about the find. This prohibits any further examination of the cave by TKKG. Schindler wants to find the treasure himself. To do this, he looks up the inscription in a book. By chance he discovers that behind the pages of the book there is part of a treasure map that leads to Dragon's Eye. Since he has sold his other books by the same poet (Krachwang) to the antique dealer Hirnvogel, he goes to see him to buy his books back. Hirnvogel leads him to buy back his books for more than twice the price of the sale. This makes him suspicious and he only gives Schindler six of his nine books. With the inflated price when buying back the books, Schindler unintentionally brings the unscrupulous antiques dealer Hirnvogel and his criminal partner Schratt on the trail of Dragon's Eye. Hirnvogel finds part of the treasure map in one of Schindler's three books that he has kept. Schindler glues all the other parts from his books together to form a treasure map, but one part (just mentioned) is missing. Therefore, he teams up with Hirnvogel and Schratt when they blackmail him. When Schindler caught TKKG during another stay in the cave, he imposed strict house arrest on Tim and Klößchen. After Schindler is almost killed by Schratt's helpers, Schindler finally notifies Inspector Glockner, who comes to the aid of the TKKG friends. TKKG can bring the sword to safety and the criminals are arrested.

Production and Marketing

The readers of Bravo were invited in 1990 to apply for a casting for the film. The three male leading actors were finally found this way after test shots. Similar to most of the actors on the TKKG TV series before, the young actors hardly appeared in front of the camera.

In the United States , the film was released under the title Four Junior Detectives ("Four Young Detectives "). He apparently received a sequel to the film Four Junior Detectives II . It was, however, about the film Das Sprechende Grab from 1994, in which the Knickerbocker gang consisting of two boys and two girls was determined as young detectives .

In addition to an original audio play in two parts, the story was also published as a novel in the regular TKKG book series and recorded as a radio play Battle for the Magic Sword "Dragon Eye" for the radio play series.

reception

The Lexicon of International Films writes: “ An exciting cinema adventure that emerged from a successful series of books for young people, well played and staged with solid craftsmanship. "

Awards

• 1994: Gold medal at the International Children's Film Festival in Giffoni Valle Piana / Italy

Web links

• A case for TKKG: Dragon's Eye in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• A case for TKKG: Dragon's Eye at Filmportal.de Link to the Internet Archive
• A case for TKKG "Drachenauge" (1992) on werstreamt.es

Individual evidence

1. ↑ A case for TKKG: Dragon's Eye. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 18, 2017 .