Always this Michel 1. - Michel in the soup bowl

Movie
German title	Always this Michel 1. - Michel in the soup bowl
Original title	Emil i Lönneberga
Country of production	Sweden
original language	Swedish
Publishing year	1971
length	95 minutes
Age rating	FSK 6
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Director	Olle Hellbom
script	Astrid Lindgren
production	Olle Nordemaar
music	Georg Riedel
camera	Kalle Bergholm
cut	Jan Persson
occupation
Jan Ohlsson : Michel Svensson Lena Wisborg : Ida Svensson Allan Edwall : Anton Svensson Emy Storm : Alma Svensson Björn Gustafson : Alfred Maud Hansson : Lina Carsta Löck : Krösa-Maja Georg Årlin : Vicar Hannelore Schroth : Mrs. Petrell Mimi Pollak : Lillklossan Ellen Widmann : Command Gus Dahlström : Stolle-Jocke Hildur Lindberg : Vibergskan Paul Esser : Doctor
synchronization
chronology
Successor  → Always this Michel 2. - Michel has to make more males

Always this Michel 1. - Michel in the soup bowl (original title: Emil i Lönneberga ) is a film by the director Olle Hellbom from 1971. It is the first film in the three-part adaptation of Astrid Lindgren's novels about Michel from Lönneberga .

Michel's carpenter's shed on Katthult (film set)

action

Michel lives with his little sister Ida and his parents on a small farm in Sweden. He's not going to school yet, so he has a lot of time for some pranks, which always causes a lot of talk among the local people. He didn't mean it at all, he just has too much imagination and love of discovery. One day, for example, he finds his father's hat by the stream, which he had forgotten there. Michel really just wants to try out whether the hat can swim. When he tries to get him back out of the water, his leather boots get all wet and water runs into them. He thinks he has to test whether there are also waterproof boots. So he goes home and fills his father's boots with rainwater from the bin. Michel's father suddenly steps into these wet boots and knows immediately who played this trick on him. Michel then quickly hides in the woodshed, where he has often sought refuge because he can lock the door from the inside. Here he always carves little wooden men, of which quite a lot has accumulated over time.

The servant Alfred and the somewhat simple-minded maid Lina also live on the Katthult farm in Lönneberga . One night he meets a rat in the kitchen, which is why Michel sets up a trap here that his father promptly steps into with his bare feet the next morning. So Michel has to flee into the woodshed in his nightgown. So he begins to carve his 98th figure until he can come back into the house that afternoon. Michel's mother is preparing bloodballs there and Michel, in his carelessness, pours the batter into his father's face. Michel had to spend the rest of the day in the shed and is so upset about it that he decides to stay here for the rest of his life and never to come out. He soon regrets that because he wanted to go swimming with Alfred. Since Lina had also locked the shed from the outside, Michel has to climb out of the chimney of the shed and therefore looks like a "ghost child".

For the next dinner, Michel will be sitting at the table again. Unfortunately, he wants to slurp the last of the soup out of the soup bowl and gets his head stuck in it. Despite all efforts, Michel’s head cannot be freed from it. Because the father doesn't want to break the soup bowl, he drives Michel with Michel into town to see the doctor. All people can now see what happened to Michel. As soon as he arrives at the doctor, Michel bumps his head on his desk and the bowl breaks. Nevertheless, the father is not sad about the financial loss, because the doctor would have cost money too. To thank him for having saved the doctor's costs, he gives Michel a 5- Øre piece, which he puts in his mouth for fun and swallowed promptly on the bumpy ride home. He still thinks it's funny to be his own piggy bank now, but his mother insists on turning back immediately so the doctor can get the coin out again. But the doctor only advises nature to let its course and, to Anton Svensson's delight, doesn't take any money. Accordingly, Michel's father is very satisfied with the good business and sticks the broken pieces of the soup bowl back together. However, the joy does not last long because Michel sticks his head in again and this time the mother smashes the pot herself to free her boy.

The Svenssons want to celebrate a big summer party and traditionally hoist the Swedish flag when the guests arrive. Everything is prepared, but Michel’s father is called by the farmhand because the cow is beginning to calve. Michel uses the opportunity and pulls Ida up on the flagpole because his little sister would like to see the world from above. The parents are horrified and only become aware of their guests that they may have hoisted the wrong flag. Because Ida's red and white dress shone towards people like the Danish flag. Michel is once again locked in the woodshed as a punishment. Since he is hungry, he climbs from the shed window over a board to the pantry next to it and feasts on the sausages. When the father tries to release Michel again, he has disappeared and the whole company is looking for him. The maid Lina finds the boy at the end and everyone is relieved. The joy of the parents to have their Michel back unharmed exceeds the anger about the sausages eaten.

Shortly before Christmas, a lot of preparations are made on the Katthult farm and the Svenssons' tenant, old Krösa-Maja, also helps. She told horror stories of monsters and military wolves, so that Michel thinks it makes sense to build a wolf trap. But of course he doesn't catch a wolf in it, but the wicked overseer of the Lönneberga poor house gropes in there. She was looking for the poor who were invited by Michel to a banquet because his parents are not at home but visiting friends at the end of town. The starved poor leave nothing of the delicious dishes that Michel's mother had actually prepared for the relatives who were due to come the next day. For Michel, of course, there is another whole day in the woodshed as a punishment.

Reviews

“With a light hand, funny film about childhood experiences and pranks of little Michel. The three-part film based on a book by Astrid Lindgren is purely entertaining and without depth. It is perfectly staged, pleasant entertainment for children. "

- Lexicon of international film

Others

In 1971, the German-Swedish series version of the films was made under the name of Michel from Lönneberga . In this, the adventures and pranks were broadcast in individual episodes:

• When Michel caught a rat
• When Michel put his head in the soup bowl
• When Michel Klein-Ida pulled up the flagpole
• When Michel gave the feast for the poor

synchronization

In the theatrical version, not only are the voice actors used in the television series , the dialogues also differ significantly from those in the television version.

role	actor	Voice actor
Narrator	Astrid Lindgren	Margot Trooger
Michel	Jan Ohlsson	Gould Maynard
Ida	Lena Wisborg	Inga Nickolai
Lina	Maud Hansson	Kathrin Ackermann
Anton Svensson	Allan Edwall	Holger Hagen
Alma Svensson	Emy Storm	Eva-Maria Lahl
Alfred	Bjorn Gustafson	Horst Raspe
Krösa Maja	Carsta Löck	Carola Höhn
Mrs. Petrell	Hannelore Schroth	Hannelore Schroth
doctor	Paul Esser	Paul Esser
Command	Ellen Widmann	Maria Landrock
Vicar	Georg Årlin	Friedrich Schoenfelder
Stolle-Jocke	Gus Dahlström	Rolf Castell
Lillklossan	Mimi Pollak	Marianne couple

Sequels

• Always this Michel 2. - Michel has to make more males
• Always this Michel 3. - Michel puts the world in order

Web links

• Michel in the soup bowl in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Always this Michel 1. - Michel in the soup bowl. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed May 30, 2017 .