Long Live the Queen (1995)

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Movie
German title Long live the Queen
Original title Lang Leve de Koningin
Country of production Netherlands
original language Dutch
Publishing year 1995
length 150 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
Rod
Director Esmé Lammers
script Esmé Lammers
production Laurens Geels
Dick Maas
music Paul M. van Brugge
Eric-Jan Vos
camera Marc Felperlaan
occupation

Long live the Queen ( Dutch Lang Leve de Koningin ) is a Dutch children's film from 1995 by Esmé Lammers with Tiba Tossijn in the leading role as Sara and Monique van de Ven as the white queen from the game of chess . The film was the opening film at the Cinekidfestival 1995 and won a Gouden Kalf for best long feature film in 1996 . There is a 150-minute version of the film material, which is broadcast in 6 episodes. There is also a 118-minute version, which is broadcast in one or two parts (two-part 1997 on KiKA ). The shorter version of the film is in the Dutch original version and, since 2017, has also been released as a German dubbed version on DVD.

content

Eight year old Sara lives in a small town in the Netherlands with her single mother and grandpa. All she knows about her father is that he lives in South Africa. Her mother doesn't want to tell her more until Sara is 16. She is doing so badly at school that her transfer is in danger, because she prefers to dream out of the window during class. Her class teacher therefore arranges extra tuition with her mother. Sara uses her pocket money to buy a special chess set in the shop of her school friend Victor's father. Victor teaches her the game of chess by reading to her the story of how the white queen invented the game of chess to keep the white king from waging war. This story stimulates Sara's imagination so that she becomes part of what is happening in the kingdom of the white queen and also communicates with the chess pieces in other ways. Due to an appointment with the white queen for the first audition, Sara escapes from the tutoring. In this audition, Sara successfully leads the black pawns and wins against the white king. He is still enthusiastic about the new game. In the simultaneous chess tournament against her class teacher, with the support of the white queen, she wins as the only one in her class. This victory allows her to take part in a simultaneous chess tournament against Grandmaster Bob Hooke from South Africa, who she suspects is her father.

book

Esmé Lammers also wrote the children's book of the same name, the German-language edition was published by the Verlag Freies Geistesleben .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Esmé Lammers: Long live the queen! Verl. Free Spiritual Life, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-7725-1796-X (Dutch: Lang leve de Koningin . Translated by Beate and Arnica Esterl).
  2. ^ Book review by Gerald Berghöfer at Soft & Surf.