Gritta from Rattenzuhaus beius

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Movie
Original title Gritta from Rattenzuhaus beius
Country of production GDR
original language German
Publishing year 1985
length 79 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Jürgen Brauer
script Christa Kozik
production Hans-Erich Busch
music Stefan Carow
camera Jürgen Brauer
cut Evelyn Carow
occupation

Gritta von Rattenzuhausbeiuns (alternative title: Gritta vom Rattenschloß ) is a DEFA fairy tale film from 1985 with Nadja Klier in the title role, directed by Jürgen Brauer .

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Summary

Gritta lives alone with her father in an old castle. When a princess comes into the castle, she is taken to a convent school. There she learns Governor Pekavus' plan to overthrow the king. After she is back home, she goes to the king with her father. She succeeds in thwarting Pekavus' plans.

introduction

13-year-old Gritta lives with her father, the Count von Rattenzuhausbeiuns, and a servant in a run-down castle. The count is more interested in his inventions than in governing, so the family is impoverished. Gritta's mother passed away a long time ago. Many rats live in the castle, and Gritta supplies them with porridge, the only thing they get to eat in the castle. The count had invented an oat harvester, so the farmers supply him with oats.

Bulk

1st sequence

Gritta's father tries to invent a throne-saving machine. The king of the country fears for his throne, so he has offered a high reward on such a machine. Every day Gritta and the servant have to test this machine. They land on the castle ceiling. Gritta's father wants to get a ladder, but on the way he meets a princess who is traveling with some children. He invites her to his castle. In the meantime, Gritta and the servant were able to free themselves.

2nd sequence

Princess Anna Bollena Maria Nesselkrautia makes her home in the castle and charms Gritta's father by singing "Au clair de la lune". Gritta doesn't like this at all, because her father is more and more interested in the young princess and completely overlooks her. Gritta finds consolation with Peter, a village boy who tends the geese. But the princess is against this inappropriate relationship. One day the governor Pekavus turns up who wants to marry the princess, as she will inherit a considerable fortune from her father. However, she will not come of age for three months. The Count von Rattenzuhaus beiuns succeeds in routing the attackers who want to steal the princess. To prevent another attack, he marries the princess. She was just waiting for that. Now she is completely in charge of the castle, and so she sends Gritta to a convent school.

3rd sequence

Gritta doesn't like it at all in the convent school. The strict rules there are very different from the wild life she had with her father. One day she discovers that the governor is making common cause with the nuns as a false priest. He bribed a rat at the von Rattenzuhausbeiuns castle to eat up the princess's will. Without a will, her father's property would automatically go to her guardian. In addition, Pekavus has made sure that the parents of the girls who attend the nuns' school give them to the convent for their entire lives. That brings in a lot of money for the nunnery. Gritta warns the other girls and they flee the monastery.

The girls find shelter in a dilapidated hut by a lake. One day the king's son appears there, who is Gritta's age. Gritta succeeds in convincing him that the governor Pekavus is aiming for the king's throne. A short time later, he found the girls' hiding place. Together they manage to put him to flight, but they must expect that he will come back with reinforcements. So they can't stay at the lake, and so Gritta and the girls part ways. They all go home, and Gritta also makes her way to the Rattenzuhausbeiuns castle.

4th sequence

When she arrives at the castle, Gritta realizes that it is completely deserted. Only their rats are still there. They also tell her that they annoyed the princess until she left the castle. In the nearby forest, Gritta finally finds her father and the princess again. She has now had a child and has become much more peaceful towards Gritta.

With the help of the king's son, Gritta can get to the royal palace. When the king learns that Gritta's father has a throne rescue machine, he wants to see it immediately. But Pekavus gets ahead of them and locks them up with the king and his son. From then on he pretends to be king because he has the royal crown. The rats have followed Gritta and so they can free the king.

Gritta's father now introduces the supposed king to the throne-rescue machine. Pekavus tries this out immediately. However, he forgets to put on a parachute and so he is catapulted out of the castle by the machine. Since the king would henceforth have to rule alone, he made Gritta his first female advisor.

Enough

Gritta chooses to govern wisely and to ease the pressures on the poor people. She will only make good laws so that all people are good too. And if someone should be angry, he'll end up on her father's machine.

Literary template

The beginning of the film is based closely on the fairy tale "The Life of High Countess Gritta von Rattenzuhausbeiuns", which was written in 1840 by Gisela and Bettina von Arnim . Significant changes are only Gritta's age at the beginning - in the book she is 7, not 13 years old - and the character of her father: In the film, the count is absent-minded and completely focused on his inventions, which is why he lets his castle and country deteriorate; however, he is friendly towards Gritta and has a guilty conscience because he neglected her upbringing. In the book, on the other hand, he neglected Gritta from an early age, so that she survived infancy only with the help of the rats; moreover, he often lets her feel his temper and insults her.

From the time Gritta leaves the convent with the other girls, most of the bookstore is simply left out. In the literary model, the group has been traveling the world for a long time and experiencing adventures. Gritta only gets to know the prince much later when she returns. In addition, her little brother is born blind in the book, although he is later healed.

Locations

The film was shot by the DEFA group " Johannisthal ". Most of the interior shots were made in the Babelsberg film studio . The Rattenzuhausbeiuns Castle was built as a 4 m model in Groß Zicker on Rügen. Further shots of the castle were shot at Goldbeck Castle near Wittstock . The recordings of the monastery school were made in the Memleben monastery . Other locations for outdoor shots were Bad Doberan , Michendorf , Saarmund and Räbel near Havelberg .

First broadcast

Gritta Rattenzuhausbeiuns came to the GDR cinemas on March 7, 1985 . In the Federal Republic of Germany the film was shown for the first time in cinemas on October 16, 1986. It was first broadcast on television on January 4, 1987 on DFF 2 in the GDR and on January 1, 1988 on ZDF in the Federal Republic. In 1999 the film was released on video .

Reviews

  • “An imaginative film full of bizarre jokes and lots of comical ideas. Child-friendly entertainment with a strong girl as the main character. ” - Lexicon of international films
  • "(...) a cheeky, happy film of lively, anarchic gags." (Rating: 2½ stars = above average) - Adolf Heinzlmeier and Berndt Schulz in the lexicon "Films on TV" (extended new edition). Rasch and Röhring, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-89136-392-3 , p. 321

Awards

  • At the Berlin International Film Festival in 1986 the film received an award from UNICEF .
  • At the award ceremony of the Golden Sparrow in Gera in 1987 , the film received the special award from the chairman of the State Committee for Television at the GDR Council of Ministers and the foundlings award .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Gritta von Rattenzuhausbeiuns. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 31, 2016 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. ^ Wieland Becker and Volker Petzold: Tarkowski meets King Kong - History of the film club movement in the GDR. VISTAS, Berlin 2001. Page 438

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