Hot line to the afterlife
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| German title | Hot line to the afterlife |
| Original title | Üzenet a jövőből - A Mézga család különös kalandjai |
| Country of production | Hungary |
| original language | Hungarian |
| year | 1968/1969 |
| Episodes | 13 |
| First broadcast | 1968 |
| German-language first broadcast |
1974 on DDR-DF |
Hot wire to the afterlife ( Hungarian Üzenet a jövőből - A Mézga család különös kalandjai ) is a Hungarian cartoon series with 13 episodes from 1968/1969. The series was made at the Pannónia Filmstúdió in Budapest under the direction of József Nepp .
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By chance, the Mézga family from Budapest was able to establish contact with their distant great-grandson "Krümel", who lives in the 30th century, with an old radio receiver. From then on, the Mézga family contacts Krümel when there are grievances in the household. For example, the car does not start or there is a family celebration and there is no festive meal to be had under time pressure.
The development of the plot is essentially based on misunderstandings between Mézga and Krümel: Krümel always sends a futuristic version of the object in the execution by light mail, which he assumes is the required object - which is only very roughly true, because Mézga itself on the one hand, it is awkward to express and, on the other hand, Krümel finds it difficult to understand the needs of the 20th century. Furthermore, he never gets around to attaching instructions or instructing Mézga in use, as the contact always breaks off prematurely for different reasons.
The Mézga family then forcibly tries out the item without knowing how it works properly and is always under time pressure because there is always a specific problem to be solved at short notice. There is always no time to deal with the new technology in detail and consequently it is always used incorrectly out of ignorance, so that ultimately the chaos is much greater than before.
For example, a household robot is ordered from Krümel to clean and tidy up the apartment. Since this has to happen quickly, Father Mézga can only deal superficially with the device and does not know the command language and has to experiment (as in all episodes). As always, this turns out badly and so it is not surprising that the robot throws the dishes on the wall instead of cleaning them and finally tears down the walls because Mézga has given a command that the device interprets differently than it was intended.
At the end of an episode, the Mézga family often has to flee from angry fellow human beings, for example when the family car with a hypermodern engine races into a wedding party because nobody knows how to stop the vehicle, which is equipped with technology from the 30th century the vermin in Mézga's super-greenhouse grows proportionally with the fruit and finally attacks neighboring gardens and terrorizes their owners.
Recurring gags consisted of the fact that, on the one hand, the object sent from the future always materializes on the window sill, so that a new pane is regularly required, and on the other, Krümel uses a compressed dialect of language that only Adolar can correctly translate, who can has his father pay for it.
background
Color television began in Hungary on April 5, 1969. So although color television was still imminent at the time the series was being worked on, it was already being produced in color.
In addition to Hungary and the GDR, the series was also broadcast in Bulgaria , Italy and the ČSSR - with different versions for Czech and Slovak viewers.
The music for the series comes from Tamás Deák . His title “Vízisí” (waterskiing) can be heard in the episode with a supersonic wedding ceremony . This title was later used - in a shortened version - as the theme song for the animated series Hase und Wolf and achieved international popularity.
Episodes
| No. | German title | Original title | First broadcast in Hungary | German language first broadcast (GDR) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Service by light mail | Távszervíz | unknown | unknown |
| 2 | Delicacies | A Csodabogyó | unknown | unknown |
| 3 | With supersonic to the wedding | Autó-Tortúra | unknown | unknown |
| 4th | Desired weather generator | Memumo | unknown | unknown |
| 5 | Help, robot | Robot director | unknown | unknown |
| 6th | Firewater planet | Im-bolygó | unknown | unknown |
| 7th | Too smart is unhealthy | Agy-gyanta | unknown | unknown |
| 8th | Time shift | Időkibővítő | unknown | unknown |
| 9 | The will power booster | Akerkiter | unknown | unknown |
| 10 | A super greenhouse | Góliát Fólia | unknown | unknown |
| 11 | Invisible half measures | Láthatatlanok | unknown | unknown |
| 12 | Beat in the cattle barn | Alfa-beat-a | unknown | unknown |
| 13 | The house of your dreams | Mag-Lak | unknown | unknown |
TV version and DVD version
The GDR TV version was slightly shortened. The DVD edition by Icestorm Entertainment contains the complete version, with the unsynchronized scenes missing in the GDR synchronization being inserted in Hungarian and with German subtitles.
Follow-up projects
Several years later another series was produced under the name Adolars fantastic adventures , which is available in German synchronization and is also available on DVD. After this, the series Vakáción a Mézga család (The Mézga family on vacation) was produced, which was first broadcast in 1985 on West German television as The Adventures of the Metzger Family . Of the fourth series, the Mézga family and the computers (working title), only two episodes have been completed.
Web links
- Hot line to the afterlife at Fernsehserien.de
- Hot line to the afterlife at Animated Series.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ A hot line to the afterlife . Archived from the original on August 9, 2002. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 5, 2013.
- ↑ http://www.fernsehserien.de/die-ablebnis-der-familie-metzger
