Lütt Matten and the White Shell (film)

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Movie
Original title Lütt Matten and the white shell
Country of production GDR
original language German
Publishing year 1964
length 75 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Herrmann Zschoche
script Benno Pludra
Herrmann Zschoche
production DEFA , KAG "60"
music Georg Katzer
camera Horst Hardt
cut Brigitte Krex
occupation
synchronization

Lütt mats and the white shell is a German children's film of the DEFA of Herrmann Zschoche from the year 1964. It is based on the children's book by Benno Pludra , who was also co-wrote.

action

The young Lütt Matten was looking forward to the morning when his father actually wanted to give him things for his own trap . However, the father, as always, goes out to sea with his men to fish. Lütt Matten, who doesn't let up, is finally allowed to gather the parts for the trap himself. He builds it because he has no help and his friend Kaule also lets him down because of the hopelessness of the venture, as he sees fit. Only the girl Mariken helps him to tension the fishing nets. However, there is no catch. Soon Lütt Matten is laughed at by the village children for his lack of luck in fishing. His father, on the other hand, doesn't even find time to look at the trap.

Lütt Matten learns about the legendary white shell from Mariken. It is said to have been sunk in the sea and have been singing the fish to the fishermen ever since. Together with Mariken, Lütt Matten wants to find the white mussel and finally catch fish. Despite an intensive search, the two children do not find the shell. In the chest of the "Großvadding", however, there is a large white shell. Lütt Matten takes them and sinks them next to his trap with wishes for angler's luck. In fact, a roach got caught in the trap the next day . The children of the village are amazed, but Lütt Matten's father explains to his son that the roach can only have been placed in the fish trap, as the fish trap itself cannot possibly catch fish. In the end, Mariken admits to having put the roach into the trap to cheer up Lütt Matten.

Lütt Matten believes that he has simply not found the right white shell. At night he drives out alone on the bay to find the right shell. He gets lost in the night; in the end his boat gets caught in the fish traps at sea. His father finally found him there, who, alarmed by Mariken, went to look for Lütt Matten with other fishermen. The next morning, Lütt Matten, disappointed, tears down his trap. His father, who has finally taken the time to look at the trap, suggests to his son to build a real trap at sea. Lütt Matten is skeptical, since his father had promised a lot but never kept it. The father realizes that he often disappointed his son. He goes to work immediately and looks for the parts for a new trap. He goes out to sea with the children and builds the fish trap that caught numerous eels the next day.

production

Lütt Matten and the White Shell was filmed on the island of Hiddensee in 1963 . The film premiered on January 26, 1964 in the Berlin cosmos . On February 26, 1975 it ran on DFF 1 for the first time on television and was also shown on television for the first time in Germany on August 21, 1983.

After Das Märchenschloß and Die Igelfreundschaft it was the third children's film that Herrmann Zschoche made. The actor who played Lütt Matten, Lutz Bosselmann , had already played the leading role in The Fairy Tale Castle.

synchronization

Lutz Bosselmann was dubbed by Michael Herbst . Günther Kollwitz dubbed the Kaule actor Joachim Krause. The film's spokesman is Günther Haack .

criticism

The contemporary criticism of the GDR saw the film as differentiated. It is a "poetic, but also quite demanding children's film, the subtleties of which many children ignore because they are psychologically influenced too much by the knowledge of adults."

Other critics found the film “poetic, lovable and child-friendly”, “exemplary [is] the inclusion of the landscape in the action, the acting is praiseworthy”. Although there would be “an atmospheric landscape, ocean waves and flight of birds instead of a captivating plot”, “this quiet adventure can cast a spell on [six to eight year olds] as well as adults who want to escape the turbulent world [...] for 80 minutes”.

For the film service , Lütt Matten and the White Shell was an "adventurous children's film with an educational note."

literature

  • F.-B. Habel : The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , pp. 373-374 .
  • Lütt Matten and the white shell . In: Ingelore König, Dieter Wiedemann, Lothar Wolf (eds.): Between Marx and Muck. DEFA films for children . Henschel, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-89487-234-9 , pp. 143-145.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Herrmann Schirrmeister: Test with Lütt mats . In: Tribune , January 25, 1964.
  2. ↑ Charlotte Czygan in: Filmspiegel , No. 11, 1964.
  3. ↑ her: Children's or adult film? In: BZ am Abend , January 31, 1964.
  4. ↑ Lütt Matten and the white shell . In: Ingelore König, Dieter Wiedemann, Lothar Wolf (eds.): Between Marx and Muck. DEFA films for children . Henschel, Berlin 1996, p. 145.
  5. ↑ Lütt Matten and the white shell. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed June 29, 2018 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used