A Sunday child who sometimes goes nuts
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | A Sunday child who sometimes goes nuts |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1978 |
| length | 89 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Hans Kratzert |
| script | Hans Kratzert Gudrun Deubener (scenario) Wolf-Dieter Bölke (dramaturgy) |
| production |
Siegfried Kabitzke for DEFA , KAG "Red Circle" |
| music | Günther Fischer |
| camera | Wolfgang Braumann |
| cut | Ruth Ebel |
| occupation | |
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A Sunday child who sometimes spins is a DEFA German children's film by Hans Kratzert from 1978 .
action
Ten-year-old Kathi moves with her father Peter, whom she calls Petruschka, from Hohenbergen in the Harz Mountains to a town in Brandenburg. Kathi's mother has died and so the child takes care of the household, especially since the father is often at work as a manager. She is a very independent girl for her age, not on the lips, creative and open-minded. When she is about to go shopping, she discovers a large stone statue in the market square. She asks two Thälmann pioneers about the meaning of the figure, and the girl Anke explains to her that it is a Roland . Kathi follows them while Anke tells her more about Roland. Suddenly Kathi is waved into a house with the two pioneers. A little later, the perplexed Kathi is on the stage of a brigade celebration with her shopping net. The two pioneers sing a song and a little later Kathi recites a poem improvising and hands over her purchases to the brigade leader. Later she entertains the guests with her imaginative stories and the pioneers Anke and Jürgen react jealously. When Kathi comes home without shopping, but with her story from the brigade celebration, Peter doesn't believe her and sends her to sleep immediately as a punishment.
It turns out that Kathi is in the same class as Anke and Jürgen. In the German class, to the amazement of the teacher Schütterow, she does not know which Till Eulenspiegel stories the class should read in her German book, but she can tell a new Eulenspiegel story out of her head. Her manner makes her an outsider, as her classmates soon regard her as a know-it-all and show-off. However, her stories are often true, for example she helps a little boy who is lost and comes home late because of it. Since her father often has to work overtime and at the same time hardly knows anything about household chores, Kathi begins to long for a mother. She asks the boy whose little brother she helped for advice, and he says that Kathi should look for a suitable wife for her father. He also gives her tips on how the first adult meeting should go. Since Kathi quickly made friends, she soon chose the single mother, Dietze, as the wife for her father. She and Kathi know each other from shopping and occasionally Kathi helps Mrs. Dietze with her baby Beatrice. Without being asked, Kathi organizes a rendezvous between her father and wife Dietze, surprises Peter with it and organizes cakes and candles. As advised, she and Beatrice retreat to her children's room, but Peter and Frau Dietze hardly talk to each other. When Frau Dietze left, Peter asks his daughter never to organize such a meeting for him again. What Kathi doesn't know is that Peter has already found a good friend in his colleague Carola Klaroschwsky.
On one of her hikes, Kathi met an excavator operator by chance, who told her about his experiences in a nearby ruin. During the last years of the war he had a decisive encounter with a good friend, and as a result the friendship fell apart. Kathi goes to the ruins a little later and meets a film team there that is filming the history strip Feuerschein im Zwielicht and spontaneously uses it in a scene. When Kathi tells about it at school, you don't believe anyone again. She secretly goes back to the film set for a night shoot because her father is out with Carola that same night. Father and daughter return home at the same time and Peter threatens to give Kathi to his sister and her husband. She never listens to him and always does her own thing; he no longer wants to live with her like this because he cannot rely on her. Depressed, Kathi promises to listen more to her father.
The class plans various activities for a pioneer day. Kathi secretly wants to have the story re-enacted on the ruins that the excavator operator told her. Rehearsals go awry, however, when one of her friends falls while jumping and breaks his arm. Kathi is so upset about this that she pretends to have a stomach ache and stays home the next day. She missed the consultation hour for the pioneer day and the classmates once again have reason to blaspheme. In the end, Kathi is unable to show a demonstration at the ruins, but she tells her classmates and pioneer leader Franziska Peters the story that makes the children think. Discussions soon ensued as to how one could collect and process people's experiences in the war. Franziska Peters, who Kathi has taken to her heart, is proud of the development that Kathi's story began. On the way back from the ruins, Kathi is happy to announce that she will be picked up: Carola Klaroschwsky, with whom Kathi now gets along well, is waiting for her not far. She promises the girl to talk to Peter again so that Kathi doesn't have to move in with her aunt, and they both go home together like a small family on the banks of the Havel.
production
A Sunday child who sometimes spins is based on motifs from Peter Brock's children 's book Ich bin die Nele . The film was made under the working title I am the Nele from 1977 in Brandenburg an der Havel, among other places . The costumes come from Barbara Braumann , the set was created by Georg Kranz . The film premiered on July 7, 1978 in the camping cinema in Arendsee . On the same day the film was released in the GDR and expired on September 15, 1979 for the first time on DDR 1 in the GDR television .
Some filmmakers have a cameo appearance in the scene of the film shoot in the same characteristics as they appeared in A Sunday Child Who Sometimes Spins : Hans Kratzert can be seen as a director, Wolfgang Braumann as cameraman, Barbara Braumann as costume designer, Wigbert Stern as a prop master, Werner Martin as lighting technician and Dorit Albrecht as assistant director. Günter Schubert is also part of the film crew in the film.
criticism
The contemporary criticism of the GDR was divided. Hans-Dieter Tok praised the film as a good film and "an eventful everyday story, in which every generation can find joy and fun" and wrote that in the film "the psyche of a child who grows up in a good society is extremely sensitive, tapped ”. The film is convincing due to its "closeness to life, its - child-friendly - conflicts, whether the commitment of well-known actors who master their grateful roles in this' children's film '' with noticeable dedication." Renate Holland-Moritz, on the other hand, found that especially in comparison to Kratzert's Ottokar the do-gooder should start a “funeral march on this swan song of its creators”: “The film has no logically or even psychologically developing fable [...] None of the adults reveal themselves as characters”.
In retrospect, other critics wrote that Kratzert wants to tell episodically like in the successful Ottokar the do-gooder, but has less success here. Reasons for this lie “in the modestly unusual dramaturgy [...], which fails to lead Kathi's friction with her surroundings to a climax, to work out contradicting things and to depict conflicts in all consistency.” The film tells the story too well and the good performance Yvonne Dießner cannot compete with “a camera that appears to be devoid of concept and equipment that is poor in imagination”.
For the film service , A Sunday Child Who Sometimes Spins was "a little exciting children's film that episodically describes the sometimes exotic everyday life in a city."
literature
- F.-B. Habel : The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , pp. 568-569 .
- A Sunday child who sometimes goes nuts . 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. 250-252.
Web links
- A Sunday child that sometimes spins in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- A Sunday child who sometimes goes nuts at filmportal.de
- A Sunday child who sometimes goes nuts at the DEFA Foundation
Individual evidence
- ^ Hans-Dieter Tok in: Leipziger Volkszeitung , July 22, 1978.
- ^ Renate Holland-Moritz: cinema owl . In: Eulenspiegel , No. 32, 1978.
- ↑ A Sunday child who sometimes goes nuts . In: Ingelore König, Dieter Wiedemann, Lothar Wolf (eds.): Between Marx and Muck. DEFA films for children . Henschel, Berlin 1996, p. 251.
- ↑ A Sunday child who sometimes goes nuts. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .