Jan from the golden star
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Original title | Jan from the golden star |
Country of production | Germany |
original language | German |
Publishing year | 1980 |
length | 95 minutes |
Age rating | FSK 0 |
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Director | Peter Podehl |
script | Peter Podehl |
production | WDR |
music | Enno Dugend |
camera | Werner van Appeldorn, Jürgen Hasenack |
cut | Marie-Anne Naumann, Susanne Schweinheim |
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Jan from the golden star is a German feature film that was cut from the three-part television series of the WDR : Jan, the boy from the golden star . The first broadcast of the television series started on March 18, 1980. Repetitions of the series were then only shown as a feature film.
action
When a big festival is being celebrated on the golden star, the boy Jan crashes through a space station to earth. There he wakes up in a cave on a wooded hill with no memory. Jan - or "Jaun" as he calls himself in his own language - has unusual skills: he seems to communicate with animals, reads people's minds, can jump 20 meters and learn a whole language in a few hours.
After Jan has come to in the cave, he is soon with a sprained foot on the run from unfriendly game protection owners and is almost run over by the Kaufmann family. The Kaufmanns take Jan in temporarily. Jan's abilities are quickly noticed by the family and the residents of the nearby town. Jan is seen as a strange eccentric ("The boy is unnatural!"), In whom the media quickly becomes interested: he doesn't speak at first and who can jump 20 meters?
The unusual boy is suspected of being in the hunting lodge of Dr. Feller breaking in. When the police asked the family who exactly the boy was, the father of the family, Thomas Kaufmann, got more and more entangled in contradictions, because he informed the authorities that Jan was the son of a Russian stranger he knew. Very unusual for West Germany in the 1980s, because the Cold War between the Western world and the Soviet Union was not yet over.
With his ability to read minds, Jan can relieve himself of the suspicion of burglary with the police, whether this inexplicable ability and the 20 m jumps the whole Kaufmann family comes under suspicion of espionage and ultimately flees with Jan, closely followed by the police, secret service, the media and intrusive city dwellers. The escape succeeds at the last second after Jan can get in touch with his people and is picked up at the cave together with the Kaufmanns.
The three-part series
Jan, the boy from the golden star
- Episode 1: The Fall, 35 min
- Episode 2: The suspicion, 35 min
- Episode 3: The Hunt, 35 min
literature
The novel for the film / the three-part series:
- Alexander Key : The Forgotten Door, ISBN 0-590431-30-7 (English)
- Alexander Key: The Door to Another World, ISBN 3-414114-90-9 (German translation)
For his film Alexander Keys, the director Peter Podehl relocated the story to the edge of a West German town in the 1980s. The action takes place in the Vulkaneifel .
Broadcast dates
- First broadcast of the three-part series:
- Episode 1 on March 18, 1980
- Episode 2 on March 19, 1980
- Episode 3 on March 20, 1980
- First broadcast of the feature film:
- Further broadcast dates (feature film version):
Locations
The filming location for the scenes on the golden star was a former factory building in the Kalk district of Cologne . Jan's 20-meter jumps were filmed in this warehouse. The filming location for the scenes in the merchant's house was the former rectory in Wintersdorf (Ralingen) .
In 1980 Armin Maiwald produced two documentaries for WDR :
- Hollywood in Kalk: The Space Station, 11 min
- Hollywood in Kalk: the twenty-meter jump, 10 min
Both documentaries were broadcast as part of the first broadcast of the series in 1980 on ARD .
Web links
- Jan, the boy from the golden star in the Internet Movie Database (English)