Hot Tracks (1974)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Hot tracks |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1974 |
| length | 68 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Wolfgang Huebner |
| script |
Günter Heimann Wolfgang Huebner |
| production |
DEFA on behalf of GDR children's television |
| music | Günter Hauk |
| camera | Günter Heimann |
| cut | Vera Nowark |
| occupation | |
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Hot Traces is a German crime film directed by Wolfgang Huebner in 1974 . The children's film was produced by DEFA on behalf of GDR children's television.
action
Ten-year-old Lutz Paschke, son of the detective captain Paschke, is an enthusiastic but often overzealous detective. With his Basset Hound Pinkus he wanders through his town and believes he can see crimes in mostly harmless events. Time and again, his father is summoned by him to commit an alleged crime, Lutz believes he has seen a murder, which, however, turns out to be a clumsy attempt to kill carp. Father Paschke is annoyed, especially since Lutz's actions repeatedly bring him into embarrassing situations. When Lutz therefore receives an anonymous letter announcing a crime at the old mill on Friday evening in cut-out letters, he says nothing to his father. In the evening, Lutz goes to the mill with the sniffer dog Pinkus and his best friend Katrin. In fact, Katrin sees a person with binoculars, but they flee. On the way to the train station, both children see the fugitive again in an allotment garden, who jumps over the garden fences while trying to escape. Lutz not only finds a large shoe print in the garden, but also a button. At the tram stop, they notice two young men with a box of lawn seeds and a radio who are reacting to Pinkus angrily. Lutz's angry parents are waiting at home. Because he did not come home, neither of them could go to a concert, but waited for their son and alerted the neighbors. When Lutz suggests that he came so late because of a break-in in gazebos and subsequent investigations into the crime scene, Father Paschke gets angry.
The next day, Paschke found out that the arbor colony had actually been broken into. Machines and a radio are missing. The stolen goods were probably transported away in a turf seed box. Paschke asks his son, but he only gives vague answers. At school he saw that his teacher Dornbusch's shoes have a distinctive and deep profile. He secretly sneaks back to the crime scene with Katrin and draws the shoe profile. He is caught by the arbor owner Luise Weberlein, who takes him to the police as a supposed burglar. Father Paschke demands from Lutz that he apologize personally to Mrs. Weberlein and Lutz and Katrin go to their apartment. It turns out that Dornbusch lives with Mrs. Weberlein as a sublet. The button that Lutz found in the garden is missing on his jacket. Mr. Dornbusch does not deny that he was in the arbor colony at night and explains to Lutz that he was in an emergency. Paschke, alerted by Katrin, learns the background: Mrs. Weberlein is a very strict landlady, so that Mr. Dornbusch is forced to meet his fiancée in Mrs. Weberlein’s gazebo. Again, Lutz's search for the perpetrator was unsuccessful.
Paschke asked Lutz to give him a precise description of the perpetrators of the two young men he had seen at the bus stop. One had a big stain on his pants. In fact, a man can be identified who gave such pants to a dry cleaner. At the same time, Lutz continues to investigate on his own. He places an advertisement in which he is looking for a portable radio as a student. After a short time, two answers are received: The father of an older singing teacher is a possible perpetrator. The second advertisement, however, leads Lutz on the right path, as the two perpetrators want to get rid of their old radio for little money. Lutz, however, promises himself and is in danger because the perpetrators also recognize him as a boy from the night of the crime. A short time later, however, the police appear and arrest both men. Paschke reproaches Lutz, even if he has to admit that he didn't come up with the idea of the advertisement himself. Lutz promises never to play detective again, but in the end he solves the riddle about the author of the letter: a classmate wanted to play a trick on him with it.
production
Hot traces is based on the radio play A Case for Kalle Kramer by Brigitte Tenzler . The film had its television premiere on December 26, 1974 on DFF 1 . The costumes were created by Marlene Froese , the buildings are by Werner Zieschang .
criticism
The film service called Hot Traces the “story of a ten-year-old student who works as a criminalist and goes to work with overzealousness. TV thriller for children. "
Web links
- Hot tracks in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Hot tracks at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hot tracks. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .