Witch Lilli - The Journey to Mandolan

Movie
Original title	Witch Lilli - The Journey to Mandolan
Country of production	Germany , Austria , Spain
Publishing year	2011
length	90 minutes
Age rating	FSK 0 ; JMK 6
Rod
Director	Harald Sicherheitsitz
script	Bettine von Borries , ; Achim von Borries
production	Michael Coldewey , ; Danny Krausz , ; Kurt Stocker , ; Katharina Dor
music	Ian Honeyman
camera	Thomas Kiennast
cut	Alexander Dittner
occupation
	Alina Freund : Lilli; Pilar Bardem : Surulunda; Anja Kling : Lilli's mother; Jürgen Tarrach : Guliman; Ercan Durmaz : Abrash; Tanay Chheda : Musa; Michael Mittermeier : Hector (voice); Albert Pérez : Captain; Pegah Ferydoni : Leila; Michael Mendl : Nandi; Miguel Wansing Lorrio : Leon; Cosma Shiva Hagen : Suki (voice); Ulrich Frank : Captain (voice); Lars Rudolph : Waiter; Alexander Yassin : Minister; Claudia Fritzsche : Healer; Yvonne Kolle : trainer; Irshad Panjatan : servant;
chronology
← Predecessor ; Witch Lilli - The Dragon and the Magic Book	Successor → ; Lilli the witch saves Christmas

The witch Lilli - Die Reise nach Mandolan is a German - Austrian - Spanish co-production from 2011 by Harald SICHERITZ with Alina Freund in the title role. The partially animated children's film was released in Germany, Austria and Switzerland on February 17, 2011. After the witch Lilli - The dragon and the magical book by Stefan Ruzowitzky (2009), this is the second film adaptation after the children's book series Hexe Lilli von Knister . In 2017 the film series with the witch Lilli saves Christmas by Wolfgang Groos was continued.

action

In her second cinematic adventure, the witch Lilli has to travel to the oriental kingdom of Mandolan. On behalf of Grand Vizier Guliman, she is supposed to banish a curse that weighs on the royal throne and wants to mount Guliman. Soon Lilli sees through the wrong game of the Grand Vizier, whom the throne rightly throws off again and again. She finds out that Gulimann is not the true heir to the throne. The rightful King Nandi was overthrown by Gulimann by an intrigue and is being held captive by the magician Abrash. With the support of the magic dragon Hector and the Bedouin boy Musa, Lilli travels to the Forbidden City to free the king before Guliman can finally take control of the country.

production

The shooting took place from August 17 to October 24, 2009, and the shooting took place in Babelsberg and India . The film was supported by the Austrian Film Institute , the Vienna Film Fund , the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg , the German Film Funding Fund (DFFF), the FilmFernsehFonds Bayern and the Bavarian Banking Fund, the Film Funding Agency (FFA), Eurimages , MEDIA , the Instituto de la Cinematografía y de las Artes Audiovisuales, Audiovisual SGR and the Institut Català des les Indùstries Culturals, Austrian Broadcasting was involved . The film was produced by the German film production companies blue eyes Fiction and Trixter Productions , co-producers were the German Studio Babelsberg GmbH and Buena Vista International , the Austrian Dor Film and Mini Film and the Spanish Steinweg Emotion Pictures . Max Vornehm was responsible for the sound, Bina Daigeler for the costume design and Christoph Kanter for the production design. The title song is by Klaus Badelt .

reception

Martin Schwickert described the film on Zeit Online as a family film that knows how to entertain in a charming way. Surelyitz would fully rely on the fairy tale qualities of the story and the oriental setting, there were few limits to the imagination of decorators.

Christian Horn, on the other hand, wrote on film releases that a sequel usually always offers a little more of everything. This sequel, however, would offer a little less of everything: less good ideas, less tension and less charm. The scenes between Lilli and her companion Hector would be among the best and most humorous in the film, but even they would not always come close to the witty dialogues of the predecessor.

Awards

2011: Austrian Ticket for more than 75,000 visitors
2012: Austrian Film Award - Best Production Design (Christoph Kanter)
German Film and Media Assessment (FBW) - "valuable" rating

Web links

Lilly the Witch - The Journey to Mandolan in the Internet Movie Database (English)
The witch Lilli - The trip to Mandolan at filmportal.de

Individual evidence

↑ Release certificate for the witch Lilli - The journey to Mandolan . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , November 2010 (PDF; test number: 125 380 K).
↑ Age rating for the witch Lilli - The journey to Mandolan . Youth Media Commission .
↑ ^a ^b Austrian Film Institute. Retrieved October 7, 2017 .
↑ ^a ^b Lilli the witch - The trip to Mandolan at filmportal.de
↑ Film Lilli the witch - The trip to Mandolan: Bewitched charming . Article dated February 16, 2011, accessed October 7, 2017.
↑ Lilli the witch - Die Reise nach Mandolan - The film starts criticism on FILMSTARTS.de . Retrieved October 7, 2017.
↑ List of Diamond-Super-Golden-Austria Tickets 2011 . Retrieved October 7, 2017.

[FSK-1] Release certificate for the witch Lilli - The journey to Mandolan . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , November 2010 (PDF; test number: 125 380 K).

[JMK-2] Age rating for the witch Lilli - The journey to Mandolan . Youth Media Commission .

[filminstitut-3] Austrian Film Institute. Retrieved October 7, 2017 .

[fp-4] Lilli the witch - The trip to Mandolan at filmportal.de

[5] Film Lilli the witch - The trip to Mandolan: Bewitched charming . Article dated February 16, 2011, accessed October 7, 2017.

[6] Lilli the witch - Die Reise nach Mandolan - The film starts criticism on FILMSTARTS.de . Retrieved October 7, 2017.

[7] List of Diamond-Super-Golden-Austria Tickets 2011 . Retrieved October 7, 2017.