Lucky Star (1979)

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Movie
Original title Lucky Star
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1979
length 78 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Hans-Jürgen Tögel
script Mischa Mleinek
production Harald Reich
music Anselm Spring
camera Kai Borsche
Atze Glanert
cut Norbert Herzner
occupation

Lucky Star is a German family film from 1979. Under the direction of Hans-Jürgen Tögel , Katharina Böhm plays her first leading role here, at the same time in her first feature film. Günther Maria Halmer is cast as her father, Hannelore Schroth as her grandmother. Other leading roles are occupied by Joachim Hansen , Claudia Gerhardt and Pirko Zenker .

action

The old cab driver Butzbichler is the last of his kind in Munich in 1978. Every day he drives 14-year-old Kathi to school. One day, when Butzbichler's inattentiveness caused a traffic accident, the old man had to go to the hospital. His sister-in-law uses his absence not only to put his belongings in front of the door. She also tries to sell the long-serving and good-natured taxi horse Dublin to a knacker. Horrified Kathi runs to her grandmother Hedwig and asks her to help her rescue. Hedwig buys the horse from the woman without further ado, and Kathi now has every effort to organize accommodation and enough food for the old animal.

Her classmate Pirri, who comes from a “good family” but is very arrogant and snobbish, suggests that she take Dublin to the Gut Tanneneck riding stable, where her three racehorses are also standing. Kathi's early widowed father Robert, a notoriously sheer bohemian, is not particularly enthusiastic about all of this, but gradually thaws when he realizes how much his daughter enjoys the horse and the opportunity to take riding lessons there. Soon afterwards he met the siblings Ullrich and Lena, two well-off townspeople who had helped Kathi in a riding accident. Robert slowly befriends the boutique owner Lena, and they eventually become a couple.

One day Kathi even managed to turn the leisurely cab horse into a passable competition horse. In a competition she is among the four best. The haughty and class-conscious Pirri is not very enthusiastic about this, as she soon sees serious competition for herself and her three horses in both Kathi and Dublin. One evening she kidnaps Dublin and brings him near a motorway, probably in the hope that a truck or car will knock him over. But the stable boy Freddy noticed this and whistled on Pirri the next day after Dublin was found and brought back to his stable. Pirri's extremely wealthy father is so angry about his spoiled daughter's misdeed that he decides to sell her three horses. Kathis Dublin is now allowed to stay at the riding stables and earn his grace there.

Production, publication

Was filmed Lucky Star - the title is mentioned throughout the film never once - in the home of producer Empire, in the Bavarian Peiss . The shooting time was almost the entire month of November 1978 and 13 days in March 1979. The film construction was made by Georg Stiehle , who specializes in soft sex films , the costumes by Uli Fessler .

The premiere of the film took place on November 22, 1979 in Munich's Gloria Palast.

criticism

The Handbook X of the Catholic Film Critics , Films 1977–1980, tore down the film and wrote on page 180: "A amateurish youth film that primarily advertises anachronistic 'ideal world ideas'."

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