Fritzi - A turning miracle story

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Movie
German title Fritzi - A turning miracle story
Original title Fritzi: A Revolutionary Tale
Country of production Germany , Luxembourg , Belgium , Czech Republic
original language English
Publishing year 2019
length 86 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
JMK 8
Rod
Director Ralf Kukula ,
Matthias Bruhn
script Beate Völcker , Péter Palátsik
production Richard Lutterbeck ,
Ralf Kukula ,
Patrick Quinet ,
Stéphane Quinet ,
Pierre Urbain ,
Martin Vandas ,
Alena Vandasová
music André Dziezuk
cut Stefan Urlaß
synchronization

Fritzi - Eine Wendewundergeschichte (English title: Fritzi: A Revolutionary Tale ) is a German - Luxembourg - Belgian - Czech animated film about the Peaceful Revolution in autumn 1989 from the perspective of a child. The film celebrated its world premiere on September 30, 2019 at the Belgian Festival du Film Francophone de Namur . Weltkino Filmverleih brought the film to German cinemas on October 9, 2019. The film is based on the children's book Fritzi was there by Hanna Schott , which was published in 2009 by the Leipzig publishing house Klett Children's Book.

The German Film and Media Assessment (FBW) in Wiesbaden awarded the film the title “particularly valuable”.

action

Summer 1989 in Leipzig. Twelve year old Fritzi promises her best friend Sophie to take care of her dog Sputnik. Sophie is on vacation in Hungary with her mother and the little terrier is not allowed to join. But when the holidays are over, Sophie is still not back and Fritzi learns that she and her mother have fled to the West. Because Sputnik misses its owner so much, Fritzi decides to bring the dog back to her friend. During a class trip near the border, she wants to smuggle him across the border. Your plan has far-reaching consequences and Fritzi ends up in the middle of the Peaceful Revolution that is changing the country forever.

For the first animated film that portrays the turning point and peaceful revolution in the GDR from the perspective of a child, the animators had Leipzig resurrected in detail in 1989. With original sound recordings from the Monday demonstrations in 1989/1990 in the GDR , the film authentically reproduces the atmosphere of upheaval in the GDR and thus not only appeals to children.

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The German dubbing was done at Lavendelfilm GmbH in Potsdam based on a dialogue book by Nadine Geist and the dialogue direction by Heide Bartholomäus .

Voice actor role
Naomi Hadad Fritzi
Ben Hadad Bela
Jördis Triebel Julia
Katharina Lopinski Mrs. Liesegang
Winfried Glatzeder Stasi officer
Peter Flechtner Klaus
Amelie Sophie von Redecke Sophie
Jan Treviño Kräling Hanno

reception

The form of animation is not necessarily the first choice for telling historical material, wrote Katrin Hoffmann at epd Film . But that is precisely why the review was so exciting and authentic. Fritzi is "a role model for today in the best sense of the word" because the directors manage to create a visual aesthetic as a bridge between then and now and to return the call "We are the people" to the peaceful protesters to whom they belong. "At the same time, they encourage today's young generation to continue to get involved in the Friday demonstrations of the environmental movement."

In the Berliner Morgenpost , Ralf Krämer described the film as more cute than realistic. The audience would be better advised not to “put every word on the gold scales and question every action”. The child's perspective, which at times seems forced, makes itself too vulnerable, and the real film archive material installed in it appears too didactic. What remains is the "impression of a rather drawing board-like jubilee post and beautiful to look at, carefully designed pictures from a time that was just 30 years ago, but almost unreally distant".

In connection with the film premiere, Deutschlandfunk Kultur investigated the question of why children hardly know anything about the peaceful revolution and the time of the turning point, and referred to Berlin, where history was abolished as an independent subject in secondary schools. Even at grammar schools it can happen that young people leave school without having dealt with the material in class, reported the chairman of the history teachers' association. The Berlin education administration relied on the fact that the Peaceful Revolution was a cross-cutting issue. Anyone who reads Christa Wolf in German is automatically dealing with the Peaceful Revolution. You don't need an extra subject in history for this.

Awards

  • 2020: German Film Critics ' Award - Best Children's Film ( Ralf Kukula , Matthias Bruhn)
  • 2020 "Rauchfrei-Siegel 2020", awarded by the German Cancer Aid Foundation and the Non-Smoking Action Alliance (ABNR) with the recognition: "The film deliberately dispenses with smoking characters and thus serves as a role model, especially for young people." The directors Ralf received the award on their behalf Kukula and Matthias Bruhn.
  • 2020: Nomination for the German Film Award - Best Children's Film (Ralf Kukula, Matthias Bruhn)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ release document for Fritzi - A turning miracle story . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 191760 / K). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ Age identification for Fritzi - A turning miracle story . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ Fritzi - A turning miracle story. fbw-filmbeval.de, accessed on September 16, 2019.
  4. ↑ Release-Info , imdb.com, accessed on September 16, 2019.
  5. ↑ Fritzi - A turning miracle story , world cinema film distribution, accessed on September 16 of 2019.
  6. ↑ Fritzi was there. in the portal of the German National Library , accessed on January 17, 2020.
  7. ↑ Katrin Hoffmann: Critique of Fritzi: Eine Wendewundergeschichte. epd film. September 22, 2019, accessed January 17, 2020.
  8. ↑ Ralf Krämer: . Berliner Morgenpost. October 10, 2019, accessed January 17, 2020.
  9. ↑ Claudia van Laack: How can the fall of the Berlin Wall be explained to children? Deutschlandfunk culture. Nov 5, November 2019, accessed January 17, 2020.
  10. ↑ https://www.krebshilfe.de/informieren/presse/pressemitteilungen/fritzi-eine-wendewundergeschichte-praemiert/ , accessed on June 10, 2020.
  11. ↑ Nominations 2020 . In: deutscher-filmpreis.de (accessed on March 11, 2020).