Kalle Stropp and his friend Boll (1991)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Kalle Stropp and his friend Boll |
| Original title | Kalle Stropp och Grodan Boll på svindlande äventyr |
| Country of production | Sweden |
| original language | Swedish |
| Publishing year | 1991 |
| length | 83 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jan Gissberg |
| script | Thomas Funck |
| music | Thomas Funck |
| camera |
Eva Dorm Maria Färdal Mikael Gerdin |
| cut | Kerstin Hellgren |
Kalle Stropp and his friend Boll is a Swedish animated film directed by Jan Gissberg in 1991.
action
The frog Gustav Boll hurries to see his friend, the grasshopper Kalle Stropp, as he has discovered something unusual at the edge of the forest. With the parrot both go to the robot Blech-Niklas, who builds them a telescope. This is how they recognize that signal flags at the edge of the forest show an emergency signal. The four decide on an aid expedition and go to the forest. On the way, Gustav is attacked by a snake, but can be saved by his friend the fox. The path to the forest is blocked by a river, which Kalle can cross with Blech-Niklas' help. Gustav swims through the river, but falls over a waterfall and ends up in a cave. From here he finally meets the pine cone people, who receive him as a savior in need. Kalle also comes to the people with the help of the girl Zapfelinchen Tannengrün. After a big pine cone ball, which the pine cone king and queen give to the guests, the two learn about the people's problem: three real estate sharks from the Tonto Turbo company are planning to cut down the forest. In fact, the three men appear in a helicopter and mark trees. When she leaves, Zapfelinchen smuggles herself on board and Kalle and Gustav follow her.
Kalle and Gustav crash from the helicopter and land on a ship, where they are rescued by Blech-Niklas. He found out that the Tonto Turbo men flew to a castle. This is also where the parrot comes to watch the helicopter. Kalle and Gustav go to the castle and find out that Tonto Turbo not only wants to cut down the pine cone forest, but also wants to convert the old castle into a modern luxury hotel and move it to the cleared forest area. A floppy disk that can illegally obtain all building permits via your computer is supposed to help them in their plans . Kalle, Gustav and Zapfelinchen manage to take the disk, but at the end of a chase it ends up back in the hands of the three men. They fly to their city office. Kalle and Gustav follow them and confront the men in their office. You are laughed at. The floppy disk has meanwhile been able to obtain all the permits, so that construction work will begin the next day. The Tonto Turbo men leave for the Nobel Festival and take the disk with them. Kalle and Gustav follow them and can make the guests aware of the machinations of the three men in a speech. With the help of the fox and the cone they steal the disk again. Another chase begins, in which the parrot and Tin Niklas also take part in the end. Blech-Niklas has also brought all the warriors of the pine cone forest into the city via an assembled submarine, who manage to overpower the three Tonto Turbo men. The parrot takes the floppy disk and sinks it into the river. The pine cone forest is saved. The three Tonto Turbo men, on the other hand, have been given a new task: They can prove themselves as sheep shearers in the forest.
Production and publication
Kalle Stropp and his friend Boll was after the live action Kalle Stropp, Grodan Boll och deras vänner (1956) and the short animated film Kalle Stropp and his friend Boll (1987), the third film adaptation of stories about the grasshopper Kalle Stropp and the frog Gustav Boll, the Thomas Funck wrote for the radio in the 1940s and later also recorded. Funck wrote the script for the film and took on the original dubbing of the main characters Kalle Stropp, Gustav Boll, Parrot, Blech-Niklas and Fuchs. He also wrote the film music. The film was made as an animation. The film contains several songs that were originally sung by Yvonne Eliaesson, Jörgen Lantz, Jessica Laurén, Lasse Sarri, Inger Thunvall and Michael B. Tretow.
Kalle Stropp and his friend Boll ran on 14 December 1991 in the Swedish cinema and in 1992 was part of the series Cannes Junior of the International Film Festival of Cannes shown. Kalle Stropp and his friend Boll could also be seen in German cinemas from September 23, 1993. The film was shown as part of the Children's Film Festival 14+ at the Berlinale in 1992 and was shown as a German preview at the Children's Film Festival Goldener Spatz at the end of March 1993 . The film was released on video in Germany in March 1994. Its TV premiere he experienced on May 7, 1995 premiere , earlier than in Sweden, where the film was first shown on 26 December 1996 TV4. The film was released on DVD in Germany in 2011.
synchronization
| role | Voice actor (original) |
Voice actor (German version) |
|---|---|---|
| Kalle Stropp | Thomas Funck | Friedrich W. Building School |
| Gustav Boll | Thomas Funck | Tom Deininger |
| Blech-Niklas | Thomas Funck | Santiago Ziesmer |
| Fox | Thomas Funck | Wolfgang Bahro |
| Zapfelinchen fir green | Åsa Bjerkerot | Dorette Hugo |
| Pine cone king | Stig Grybe | Edgar Ott |
| Pine cone queen | Eva Funck | Roswitha Dost |
| Tonto Turbo Man | Thorsten Flinck | Jürgen Thormann |
| Tonto Turbo Man | Peter Dalle | Frank-Otto Schenk |
| Tonto Turbo Man | Claes Månsson | Wilfried Herbst |
criticism
The film service found that the "ecological message [of the film] is drowning in a boring chase". The film is "nicely animated, but too exhausting for younger children with its chatty dialogues and nested rhyming lyrics." For the Fischer-Film-Almanach the film was an "entertaining eco-fairy tale", but it was "his." moral message sometimes too clearly in the foreground ”. The Nürnberger Nachrichten panned the film about “a forest rescue operation which, in its comfort, even makes Maya the bee look like a cracked insect.” The “sedate, flat picture book animation” and the “cumbersome story” were criticized.
Awards
In 1992, Kalle Stropp and his friend Boll won the Cannes Junior Prize for Children and Youth.
Web links
- Kalle Stropp and his friend Boll in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Data on the film at the Svenska Filminstitutet
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kalle Stropp reser till Cannes . dn.se, April 15, 1992.
- ↑ See Svensk film i Berlin genom åren (Berlinale) - 1992 on sfi.se
- ↑ See data on the film on sfi.se (PDF) .
- ↑ See Kalle Stropp and his friend Boll on bremen.heutekino.de ( Memento from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Kalle Stropp and his friend Boll in the Lexicon of International Films
- ↑ Quoted from Kalle Stropp and his friend Boll on film-lexikon.de
- ↑ Michael Wunderlich: Kalle Stropp… . In: Nürnberger Nachrichten , March 7, 1994.
- ↑ Kalle Stropp och Grodan Boll på svindlande äventyr - Utmärkelser on sfi.se.