Felix and the wolf
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Felix and the wolf |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1988 |
| length | 72 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
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| Director | Evelyn Schmidt |
| script | Sylvia Kabus |
| production | DEFA , KAG "Babelsberg" |
| music | Reinhard Lakomy |
| camera | Claus Neumann |
| cut | Sabine Schmager |
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Felix and the Wolf is a German children's film of the DEFA of Evelyn Schmidt from 1988. The premiere took place in Berlin on July 31, 1988 Colosseum instead. It was the only children's film that Schmidt made.
action
Old Mrs. Goldberg gave little Felix Grosser a chest full of tin toys. The woman once kept the toys for her future grandchildren, but their children have not started a family for all the work. Now Felix receives the old toy and Frau Goldberg warns him not to let it fall into someone else's hands. In addition to various other items, Felix also takes a white, dancing “magic horse” into his children's room. His parents, who are currently having to remodel the bathroom despite the lack of material, only find out after a while that the pony is a present from Mrs. Goldberg, who no longer lives in the house. They suspect nothing of the chest full of toys in the attic.
As part of the bathroom redesign, the plumber Wolf appears in the Grossers apartment. He discovers the tin horse in Felix's room and immediately realizes that the old toy is very valuable. He tries to ask Felix about other similar toys and offers him an exchange of toys for money. So Felix could afford a bike. He told his friends Sina and Thomas about his sweetheart at school and both of them are enthusiastic about the unusual toy. Felix rejects Wolf's offer. However, thanks to the installation work, he has free access to the Grosser's apartment and steals the horse that he sells to an antique dealer . Sina sees the sale and hastily tells Felix about it. When the dealer puts the horse in his shop window, it turns black.
Felix is sad that he lost his horse because of his carelessness. He also feels helpless because his parents do not share his worries. When he hears that all the attics are to be torn down in the course of the house renovation, he alerts his friends, as he cannot move the heavy chest on his own. All children appear secretly in the attic at night and carry the toys into their apartment. They can hang out from Mr. Wolf, who secretly followed them.
The antique dealer has discovered the black horse in the meantime and is horrified. He throws the horse away; Felix's parents take it with them because it reminds them of their son's white horse. When the antique dealer confronts Mr. Wolf a short time later and also wants to know what happened to the remaining promised toys, Mr. Wolf admits that he was tricked by the children. They pass him with all their toys. They spread their treasures on a table. Felix's parents add the magic horse, which suddenly turns white again when all the children touch. The antique dealer and Mr. Wolf are surprised by the magic and flee. When Mr. Wolf lands in a wheelbarrow full of cement powder , the children laugh at him.
criticism
The critics praised the film as "[l] lovingly", "sensitive [n] children's film" and "subtle [s] portrait of a boy". The film is "a little bit of a crime thriller, an exciting and creepy crook film, a little bit of fairy tale". Other critics positively emphasized the film's relevance to reality, but also found that “a little more spooky and fairytale exaggeration [...] would have made the story even more entertaining”.
The lexicon of international films called Felix and the Wolf a "straightforward narrated children's film that lovingly elaborates the everyday situations and conflicts of its main character and condenses it into a modern fairy tale. Despite its conventional staging, a sympathetic plea for growing up in a way that suits children. "
Award
At the Children's Film Festival Goldener Spatz , Felix and the Wolf received the special prize from the Minister for Culture of the GDR in 1989.
literature
- F.-B. Habel : The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , pp. 167-168 .
- Felix and the wolf . 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. 376-378.
Web links
- Felix and the wolf in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Felix and the Wolf at filmportal.de
- Felix and the Wolf at the DEFA Foundation
Individual evidence
- ↑ Felix and Wolf. In: Cinema , Hubert Burda Media , accessed on August 5, 2018.
- ↑ F.-B. Habel : The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , pp. 156-167 .
- ↑ Both quotations: Marion Thiemann in: Nationalzeitung , August 11, 1988.
- ↑ Elke Schieber: Time for good luck . In: Film und Fernsehen , No. 12, 1988.
- ↑ Felix and the Wolf. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed August 5, 2018 .
- ↑ Felix and the Wolf in the DEFA database. In: DEFA-Stiftung.de, accessed on August 5, 2018.