Hatifa
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Hatifa |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1960 |
| length | 86 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Siegfried Hartmann |
| script |
Willi Meinck Siegfried Hartmann Margot Beichler (Dramaturgy) |
| production | DEFA |
| music | Siegfried Bethmann |
| camera | EW Fiedler |
| cut | Hildegard Conrad |
| occupation | |
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Hatifa , alternative title Hatifa and the Kitten , is a DEFA fairy tale film by Siegfried Hartmann from 1960. It is based on the story of the same name by Willi Meinck .
action
Hatifa and Hodja are sitting by the old ledge. Both have half of an amulet and let Simsal tell the story of the piece of jewelry and thus also of Hatifa's story.
Hatifa receives the amulet from her mother as a small child, before she is killed by the black-bearded warriors of Assyria . Hatifa is enslaved and has to work in a quarry . One day she managed to escape from there. She wanders through the desert, always accompanied by her cat Rana, before she is found by the wise dream interpreter Simsal and the young Hodja, who is a free servant in the service of the warrior Ganem. Hatifa goes with Ganem's caravan , but Simsal soon happens to see her slave mark on her shoulder and advises her not to tell anyone her secret. Hatifa gratefully gives Simsal her amulet, but he breaks it and gives one half to her and the other to Hodja. It should strengthen the bond of friendship between the two. When Hatifa hears that people who hide slaves will be punished with death, she escapes from the caravan with Hodja at night. Ganem catches up with both of them and wants to bring Hatifa back to the quarry, but she convinces him to buy a shekel of silver in the city of Nineveh and to pay him for his silence.
In Nineveh, Hatifa is accepted into the house of Simsal, who gives her rich clothing. Simsal secretly meets with the former slave and current pirate Zadok in Nineveh and brings him news from Nairabu: The slave trader Anaximandros is planning to set sail with a shipload of slave women. The Zadok, feared by slave traders, wants to ambush the ship and save the slaves. He secretly hopes that one day he will find his daughter who was once kidnapped and now presumably enslaved.
Hatifa realizes that Ganem is in town and goes to him to see Hodja again. However, Ganem insists on the agreed sum of silver and Hatifa gives him a ring that would be worth far more in vain. Ganem takes her to the quarry, where he does not receive any money for Hatifa, but which is immediately sold to Anaximandros.
Meanwhile, Hodja has managed to tell Simsal about Hatifa's fate. Together they manage to follow Hatifa's trail to Anaximandros' ship. There Simsal can be hired as a clerk and Hodja manages to secretly smuggle himself onto the ship. One of Zadok's men and a friend of Simsal's are also on board with stilts. Hodja can secretly tie his amulet around Rana and thus signal Hatifa that rescuers are on board. When Zadok's ship appears on the horizon, Hodja armed the galley slaves . With their help and the men of Zadok, it is possible to defeat the soldiers of Anaximandros and to free the enslaved women. Later one sees Hatifa and Hodja holding their amulet halves together. Zadok recognizes his wife's former piece of jewelry in the amulet and tells Hatifa that he is her father. The three of them walk away on the beach.
Simsal ends his story. Hatifa is happy that Zadok, who is already at sea to free more slaves, will come back home the next day.
production
Large parts of the film were made in the Babelsberg studio. The buildings were created by Hans Poppe , Franz F. Fürst and Joachim Keller . Scenes around the slave ship in the second part of the film were partly made on the Baltic island of Rügen around Glowe and Lauterbach . The scenes in the quarry were filmed in the granodiorite massif east of Dresden . In addition to mules and donkeys, four camels from the Berlin-Friedrichsfelde zoo were organized for the film.
The film premiered on July 25, 1960 on the open-air stage on Werbellinsee as part of the First International Children's Days of the World Association of Democratic Youth.
criticism
The contemporary criticism of the GDR wrote that the adult clearly felt the effort “not to create exciting scenes for their own sake. And yet it can be thought that a lot of what is only spoken of and some other things could have been described in a more colorful, moving and interesting, often more informative way ”. While some of the critics found the film's “cautious little tension arcs” to be disadvantageous with regard to the nature of young viewers, other critics praised Hatifa : The film “exudes the magic of oriental fairy tales and connects with it at the same time a tension that will capture the child's imagination and thirst for adventure ”.
Frank-Burkhard Habel criticized the film as “stylistically inconsistent” and “uninspired”.
The lexicon of international films wrote of Hatifa that it was "an elaborately staged, sometimes exciting fairy tale film in cardboard backdrops that tries to illustrate the era of the slave-holding society and ends with a revolutionary uprising."
Cinema found: "A little more tension would have done the real-socialist antique adventure very well."
Award
Hatifa was awarded the Silver Lotus Flower at the Second New Delhi International Film Festival in 1961.
literature
- Hatifa . In: DEFA Foundation (ed.): The DEFA fairy tale films . Zweiausendeins, Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-00-032589-2 , pp. 60-67.
- F.-B. Habel : The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , pp. 233-234 .
- Hatifa . 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. 119-121.
Web links
- Hatifa in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Hatifa in the online film database
- Hatifa at filmportal.de
- Hatifa at the DEFA Foundation
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cf. superillu.de ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Norbert Peschke in: BZ am Abend , 23 September 1960.
- ^ HA in: Nationalzeitung , October 4, 1960.
- ^ GS in: Neue Zeit , December 10, 1960.
- ↑ F.-B. Habel : The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , pp. 234 .
- ↑ Hatifa. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 2, 2017 .
- ↑ See cinema.de
