Kiss me frog

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Movie
Original title Kiss me frog
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2000
length 78 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
Rod
Director Dagmar Hirtz
script Thomas Brückner
production Dagmar Rosenbauer
music Annette Focks ,
Anett Ecklebe ,
Helene Heyder ,
Thomas Brückner
camera Florian Ballhaus
cut Nicola Undritz
occupation

Küss mich Frosch is a German TV comedy by Dagmar Hirtz from the year 2000. The fairy tale film plays with motifs from Grimm's fairy tale The Frog King .

action

Anna Sandmann isn't particularly known for being interested in boys. But the student likes to fight and occasionally meets with her best friend Mary. One day her brother Raoul catches a frog on the hot air balloon launch site and brings it home. While talking to Mary on the phone, Anna learns that her little brother has the new pet Louis XVI. is called. Suddenly they combined: Louis XVI. was the king who was beheaded, and her brother has just been treated for having cut himself on a razor blade. She jumps up immediately and can just prevent Raoul from executing the frog with a handicraft guillotine . She steals the frog and escapes with him to her room. A little at a loss about what to do with the cute frog, she jokes with him. She jokes that he is a frog prince and intends to kiss him. But the frog just beats her and kisses her. Whimsical green bubbles appear in the room, the frog disappears and turns into a young man. This introduces himself as Prince Dietbert von Tümpelberg. Almost 1,000 years ago, on his eighteenth birthday, the court magician Gorm turned him into a frog, as was customary at the time. The first prince's son was given property and title, the second became a soldier, the third became a priest and the fourth was bewitched. Conveniently, the prince can be turned back and forth by kissing, so that she doesn't have to tell her parents, especially her mother, about the prince. Dietbert is dressed again by her, because his courtly clothes are then quite conspicuous. His hair also needs to be cut. Dietbert wants to buy fly larvae in a pet shop and discovers that the shop belongs to the magician Gorm. He told him amicably that the curse would be over in two days . The prince would then have to be a frog forever. Unfortunately, he couldn't lift the curse. Still, there is another way to end the curse. Dietbert must fall in love with a virgin who reciprocates his love. Dietbert thinks he has already been saved. Anna now only has to fall in love with him, which is no problem for him. Dietbert is now trying to win over Anna. When he goes to fencing with her, he believes he has discovered a competitor in the fencing master Torben Wegner. He challenges him to a fencing duel and ultimately wins it. However, Anna is not impressed and is racing. She doesn't want anything more to do with him. Even if the two try it together, it doesn't work out for them.

Dietbert learns from Gorm that there is a second possibility. If he was human at the end of the curse, he would be so as long as he was not kissed. Dietbert no longer believes in love and wants to fulfill his other great wish. Shortly before the end of the magic curse, he decides to fly to America in a hot air balloon . Even as a frog, he longingly watched hot air balloons in the sky from a pond for days. Anna, who is still pondering Dietbert, finds out about it and is almost too late. She barely manages to get into Dietbert's balloon. But the balloon now threatens to smash against the nearby church tower. Anna is encouraged by Dietbert to kiss her because if he were to turn into a frog again, the balloon would rise immediately. The balloon would then be out of danger. But it turns out differently. Shortly before the deadline expires, there is a decisive kiss. But the two actually fell in love. The curse is no longer having any effect. The magician Gorm, who observes all of this, solves the problem by using magic to move the church tower out of the way of the balloon.

background

The film was created as a production of the multimedia film and television production in cooperation with the ZDF and the KI.KA , funded by the Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung . The film was shot in Erfurt , Thuringia . New Guinea giant frogs were trained and used for the film . In addition to these real frogs, rubber frogs and computer-animated frogs were also used.

The film was first broadcast on December 26, 2000 on ZDF. A making-of of the film was broadcast on December 30th at KI.KA. The film was shown again on December 31st at KI.KA. In Canada the film was released under the French title Le prince Grenouille .

successes

The film received various awards and nominations:

criticism

In the Tagesspiegel , Simone Leinkauf wrote: “A crazy story, lively staged and implemented by the young actors with charm and wit. And it is only logical that when a young, female prince from the year 1000 and a modern, independent woman from the year 2000 meet, there must be a series of comical misunderstandings. The team succeeded in bringing the time-related differences into the picture in a humorous way. A really nice film, the quality of which the viewer would wish for one or the other more over the year. "

The two thousand and one film lexicon judged: “[…] The modern interpretation of Grimm's fairy tale, which confronts young people with reality with a winking love of tales. The convincing mixture of suspense, joke, satire and deeper meaning resulted in an educationally interesting film that offers family entertainment in the best sense. "

media

English subtitles are available. The DVD also features the 23-minute program: "Making of: Kiss me, Frosch" by Kika from 2000.

Web links

References and comments

  1. ↑ The Internet Movie Database - Companies involved for Kiss Me, Frosch
  2. ↑ The Internet Movie Database - Kiss Me, Frog
  3. ↑ See: "Making of: Kiss Me, Frosch"; There are various details about the number of frogs. The making of reports on 10 frogs. In the text information of the published DVD 28 frogs are named.
  4. ↑ In the credits of the film you can read that no animals were tortured, injured or killed for the film.
  5. ↑ a b The Internet Movie Database - Start Dates for Kiss Me, Frosch
  6. ↑ na press portal
  7. ↑ On the released DVD with the film (there under: "Cast & Crew - Awards and Nominations")
  8. ↑ absolut Medien - Küss mich Frosch - DVD ( Memento of the original from July 7th, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. as well as on the released DVD with the film (there under: "Cast & Crew - Awards and Nominations") @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.absolutmedien.com
  9. ↑ Kiss me, frog. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed May 31, 2018 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used