Concerto for frying pan and orchestra
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Concerto for frying pan and orchestra |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1976 |
| length | 75 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Hannelore Unterberg |
| script | Hannelore Unterberg |
| production | DEFA , KAG "Berlin" |
| music |
Rainer Hornig Karl-Ernst Sasse |
| camera | Wolfgang Braumann |
| cut | Ursula Zweig |
| occupation | |
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Concert for frying pan and orchestra is a DEFA German children's film directed by Hannelore Unterberg from 1976.
action
The children of a newly built district have set up all kinds of noise instruments on and around a tree: pot lids, sticks, frying pans, bottles, bells, doorbells, etc. From time to time they make sometimes funny, sometimes annoying noises that adults don't always like to hear . The only one who understands the children is the professional musician Mr. Kling, who plays the double bass in an orchestra. Bum has a special tool: At a junk shop he gets a freezer that he cannot sell because it is incomplete. This is the top of a metal bed that once belonged to Princess Anna Amalia. In his imagination, Bum creates sounds on this bed frame that could have come from a xylophone.
A loudspeaker truck drives through the city for several days and announces that a “festival of good ideas” will be held in the residential area. Bum wants to perform there with his friends and the frying pan orchestra. But there are always arguments between the children. This is where an old tin teapot comes into play, which comes to life with a trick to support the children in serious attempts at making music, but which dissolves in smoke when quarrels and arguments arise. The jug is original, can make music, can run and is sometimes funny in its actions. With their support, the Bratpfannenorchester succeeds in performing together with a real orchestra at the big festival.
production
Concert for frying pan and orchestra was filmed by the artistic work group "Berlin" on ORWO-Color . The world premiere took place on May 16, 1976 in the Kosmos cinema in Berlin . The first broadcast on television of the GDR took place with Professor Flimmrich in the flicker hour on May 7, 1977 in the first program. From 1978 the film was also shown in German cinemas.
criticism
KJ Wendlandt from the daily newspaper Neues Deutschland found that the film captures everyday life in its atmospheric, broadly painted episodes. A cheerful tone determines the plot, which has so many fun and contemplative occurrences in store. However, the real processes and fantastic events merge in such a way that very high demands are placed on the small viewers.
The lexicon of international films described the film as sophisticatedly staged, which pleaded for recycling with a fairy-tale imagination, when nobody in this country knew the word.
Awards
- 1976: Grand Prix at the 10th International Film Technology Competition in Moscow (for animation design)
literature
- Concerto for frying pan and orchestra In: F.-B. Habel : The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , pp. 335–336.
Web links
- Concerto for frying pan and orchestra in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Concert for frying pan and orchestra at filmportal.de
- Concert for frying pan and orchestra at the DEFA Foundation
Individual evidence
- ↑ Neues Deutschland from June 18, 1976; P. 4
- ^ Concerto for frying pan and orchestra. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .