Löwenzahn - The cinema adventure
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Löwenzahn - The cinema adventure |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2011 |
| length | 92 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 6 JMK 10 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Peter Timm |
| script |
André Georgi , Henriette Piper |
| production |
Milena Maitz , Albert Schäfer |
| music | Martin Todsharow |
| camera | Achim Poulheim |
| cut | Barbara Hennings |
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Löwenzahn - The Cinema Adventure is a German adventure and family film from 2011 . It is based on the television series Löwenzahn with Guido Hammesfahr as Fritz Fuchs. Peter Timm directed.
action
The children Fritz Fuchs and Roman Zenkert find a treasure in a cave in the Alps , which Hannibal hid about 2200 years ago when he was crossing the Alps . Before they can recover it, the cave collapses. Roman flees and abandons his friend Fritz, who can only free himself with the help of his dog.
Years later, Fritz Fuchs, now an adult, is flying over his hometown Bärstadt with his solar powered paraglider when Laila, the teenage niece of his girlfriend Yasemin, arrives on a vacation visit. In front of their eyes, a ruthless driver hits a dog and kills it. Fritz and Laila find three puppies of the killed bitch and take them into their home.
The off-road vehicle that ran over the dog was driven by the blond Cora. In search of a treasure map, their companions Marvin and Ronny rummage through the construction trailer in which Fritz lives. When he comes back, the intruders flee, initially without knowing that the three puppies are with them in the car. Fritz and Laila want to save the puppies and pursue the fleeing people: Fritz with the paraglider and Laila with the postman's moped, accompanied by Fritz's dog Keks.
Cora wants to drown the puppies, but when she talks to her friend Roman Zenkert on the phone, he dissuades her: With the help of the puppies, he wants to lure his former friend Fritz to his castle in Eisenstein in Thuringia , so that he can find out the location of the treasure which he already sells without owning it.
Yasemin follows Laila in the VW bus from Fritz 'neighbor Paschulke. He steals a police car in order to pursue his car and her post moped together with the postwoman.
Fritz and the dog Keks reach Eisenstein and break into Roman Zenkert's video-monitored castle, in whose cellar he is keeping stolen art treasures. After using a trick to lock up Roman's assistant, Fritz almost manages to escape with the puppies. But when Yasemin appears in the castle, Roman takes her prisoner and blackmails Fritz to return. Together they go to the Alps to look for the treasure. Laila, who had also reached the castle in the meantime and was secretly watching the others, is hidden away on the back of one of the cars.
After Fritz led Roman, Cora and Marvin to the treasure in the high Alpine cave under threat of violence, Cora and Marvin reveal themselves to Roman as lovers. The two flee with the treasure and blow up the cave in which Fritz and Roman remain behind. The former childhood friends survive and find a shaft that leads vertically into daylight. Fritz helps Roman to be the first to climb a rope, but the latter abandons him again and, after reaching the top, immediately removes the rope and leaves Fritz behind in the shaft. This now seems hopelessly trapped. Laila comes to his aid: With Fritz's paramotor she flies over the shaft, pulls Fritz out on a rope and takes him down into the valley.
The criminals' escape ends in a cable car that short-circuits when the pups urinate on the electronics. Finally Roman, Cora and Marvin are arrested by the police, while the kind-hearted Ronny celebrates the liberation of the puppies together with Fritz, Laila, Yasemin, Paschulke and the postman.
background
production
The ZDF and Studio.TV.Film produced the film on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the series. The shooting took place from July to September 2010. Most of the filming locations were in Thuringia , such as Ranis Castle , Kranichfeld Upper Castle and the municipality of Tambach-Dietharz . 50% of the shooting took place in Thuringia, because the Central German Media Fund supported the film with 500,000 euros. Studio scenes were created in the children's media center in Erfurt . The town of Bärstadt was represented by different communities: Fritz's construction trailer was in Engerda , Thuringia , while the aerial photographs over Bärstadt actually show the Münsingen district of Gundelfingen and the valley of the Große Lauter in Baden-Württemberg. The high mountain shots were shot in Tyrol , Austria, the shots at the lake in the municipality of Seddiner See , Brandenburg.
The band Apollo 3 recorded the titles Adrenalin and High Flyer for the film .
actor
Guido Hammesfahr , the leading actor in the television series, also played the role of Fritz Fuchs in the movie. Kiosk owner Yasemin Saidi ( Sanam Afrashteh ), neighbor Paschulke ( Helmut Krauss ) and Fritz ' Bernese Mountain Dog "Keks" have also been taken over from the series . There are also Ruby O. Fee as a young adventurer, Dominique Horwitz , Petra Schmidt-Schaller , Julian Sengelmann and Joel Basman as opponents of Fritz and Sabine Orléans as the postman and film partner of neighbor Paschulke.
publication
The feature film opened in German cinemas on May 12, 2011 with more than 200 copies. It missed the top ten of the cinema charts and reached around 95,000 viewers by the end of 2011. On October 14, 2011, Löwenzahn - The Cinema Adventure was released on DVD by Warner Home Video.
criticism
"Based on the television series Löwenzahn , a sometimes quite exciting adventure film develops in front of an impressive natural backdrop, which admittedly completely cuts the familiar approach of conveying knowledge and factual relationships in a playful way for the cinema and relies on a breathless, sometimes schematic sequence of car chases without charm."
“From the first minute on, a pleasantly fast-paced adventure develops in the best mixture of tension, humor and the joy of discovery. Sufficient space is given to all of the protagonists known from the LÖWENZAHN series and their familiar properties. Thirst for action, inventive talent, sportiness, wit, quirkiness and the subtly woven-in knowledge are ideally suited to the young LÖWENZAHN audience. Despite the somewhat short dialogues in the middle of the film, the action-packed story is structured in an understandable way and, as expected, is entertaining and funny in the context of the usual viewing and listening habits of the children and young people. "
“[The film] is annoying with an absurd story, chargeable actors (Dominique Horwitz) and superficial characters. Conclusion: Hanebuechen children's crime thriller that is really annoying. "
Web links
- Dandelion - The cinema adventure in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Löwenzahn - The cinema adventure at filmportal.de
- Official website
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Certificate of Release for Dandelion - The Cinema Adventure . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry, February 2011 (PDF; test number: 126 422 K).
- ↑ Age rating for dandelion - the cinema adventure . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ a b Löwenzahn - The Cinema Adventure in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed on December 18, 2011
- ↑ Dandelion - The cinema adventure in the Internet Movie Database (English) retrieved December 18, 2011
- ↑ The film "Löwenzahn - The Cinema Adventure" is also being shot in Thuringia , Thüringer Allgemeine , July 28, 2010
- ↑ What's going on here? In: Uhlstädt-Kirchhaseler Anzeiger. Official journal, local and local newspaper of the community of Uhlstädt-Kirchhasel . Volume 18, Friday, September 3, 2010 No. 9. S. 4 f. ( Online version ( Memento from May 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), PDF, 980 kB)
- ↑ cf. Acknowledgments in the credits
- ↑ The worst starts in Germany since 2010 , insidekino.com, accessed on December 27, 2011
- ↑ German cinema charts: “Fast & Furious Five” before the two million visitor mark , Blickpunkt: Film , accessed on May 16, 2011
- ↑ Annual hit list (national) 2011. Filmförderungsanstalt , accessed on August 30, 2019 .
- ↑ Löwenzahn - The Cinema Adventure on fbw-filmbassy.com , accessed on December 18, 2011
- ↑ Löwenzahn - The cinema adventure on cinema.de , accessed on February 28, 2012