Max and seven and a half boys
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Max and seven and a half boys |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1980 |
| length | 89 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Egon Schlegel |
| script | Egon Schlegel Manfred Freitag scenario Joachim Nestler scenario |
| production | DEFA , KAG "Berlin" |
| music | Jürgen Corner |
| camera | Wolfgang Braumann |
| cut | Ilona Thiel |
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Max and seven and a half boy is a German youth film of the DEFA of Egon Schlegel from the year 1980 .
action
Antifascist Max Stricker gives a slide show in front of class 8b about his resistance struggle in World War II . The lecture is intended to get the class in the mood for a trip to the Buchenwald Memorial , which is planned shortly afterwards. However, the class is not very interested in Max's report and disturbs the presentation with giggles, loud snoring and secret food until Max leaves the room without a word. Nevertheless, he takes part in the class trip to the memorial as a contemporary witness. Here, too, a small group of students around King Ludwig are rebellious and secretly leave the train in Luckenwalde near Berlin. Max follows them and proposes a bet to the seven boys and girls Biggi: They should make their way to Niederzimmer near Weimar by the following evening . Max chooses the house of his former comrade in arms Heinrich as the meeting point; each student receives five marks for the trip.
The youngsters King Ludwig, Böhnchen, Bubi, Biggi, Lehmi, Safte and Freddy accept the challenge, while Michael declines. Although Max advises them to stay together as a group, Lehmi, Freddy and Safte separate from the others at the beginning. Freddy tries to get to his destination by dodging, but steals chocolate in Leipzig and is finally taken into custody by the police. Lehmi can organize an old bike and thus progresses faster than the others. Juices, on the other hand, buys stock cubes from the 5 mark and softens mothers hearts with his request for a cup and water for his stock cubes - he is invited to dinner by various families on his trip. King Ludwig, Böhnchen, Bubi and Biggi stay together as a group. Biggi is in love with leader King Ludwig, but in the course of the trip Böhnchen turns out to be the wiser strategist and secret head of the group. In the end, this group also tricks: They bribe a bus driver with a botched bottle of whiskey, whereupon he takes a detour to Niederzimmer. Biggi, however, jumps off the bus when she learns that the whiskey has been acquired dishonestly. In the end, all the children, except Biggi, show up at the meeting point on time. In addition to the police, teacher Miss Zahn is waiting here with the rest of the 8b. Max's friend Heinrich, however, is not present. He has already died without the knowledge of Max.
production
Max and seven and a half boys was filmed from 1979. The costumes were created by Marianne Schmidt , the film structures are by Georg Kranz . The film premiered on December 4, 1980 in Berlin's Kino International and was released in GDR cinemas the following day. On February 5, 1983, it ran for the first time on DFF 1 on television in the GDR.
Max's actor, Peter Sturm , was himself imprisoned in Dachau , Buchenwald and Auschwitz concentration camps before and during the Second World War .
criticism
Heinz Kersten mentioned unbelievable moments in the Tagesspiegel , but stated that the path of the young people was "very exciting and also fun to watch". For the film mirror , the main actors were not “the mouthpieces of the film team's insights, they make their own experiences, gain their insights as living characters. Boredom cannot arise like this, because everyday life becomes an experience in this way. ”In view of this, illogical passages of the film did not carry too much weight.
Hans-Dieter Tok praised the film as "exciting, fresh, humorous and contemplative," he was also "a gripping, sympathetic attitude and style that renounces neither a strong swab romance, nor sentimentality." Renate Holland-Moritz called the film in the Eulenspiegel "refreshingly undidactic, funny, exciting and at times deeply moving".
For Progress Filmverleih , the film was “an exciting and amusing road movie”. The film-dienst called Max and seven and a half boys a “youth film that aims to make the dangers of anti-fascist resistance fighters a sensual experience for young viewers. Partly exciting, but overall tending towards superficiality full of action. "
Awards
At the 2nd National Festival Goldener Spatz for children's films of the GDR in cinema and television, the film received the honorary award of the children's jury and the Goldener Spatz in the feature film category (= prize of the professional jury) in 1981. At the general assembly of the international youth center in Neusiedl near Vienna, the film was awarded the 2nd prize by the children's jury and the 1st prize by the audience jury.
Max and seven and a half boys received the rating “valuable” in the GDR.
literature
- F.-B. Habel : The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , pp. 390-391 .
- Max and seven and a half boys . 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. 277-279.
Web links
- Max and seven and a half boy in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Max and seven and a half boys at filmportal.de
- Max and seven and a half boys at the DEFA Foundation
Individual evidence
- ↑ Helga Schwarz-Stötzer. With body and soul: 25 portraits of well-known actors from the GDR . Berliner Verlag (1990). ISBN 978-3-86020-013-1 . Pp. 195-203.
- ↑ Heinz Kersten in: Der Tagesspiegel , January 18, 1981.
- ↑ Joachim Giera: The moral potential of the "ordinary hero" . In: Filmspiegel , No. 1, 1981, p. 14.
- ^ Hans-Dieter Tok: Hitchhiking to Weimar . In: Wochenpost , No. 1, 1981.
- ^ Renate Holland-Moritz: cinema owl . In: Eulenspiegel , No. 1, 1981. Quoted from: Renate Holland-Moritz: Max and seven and a half boys . In: Renate Holland-Moritz: The owl in the cinema. New movie reviews . Eulenspiegel, Berlin 1994, p. 20.
- ↑ See Max and seven and a half boys on progress-film.de ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Max and seven and a half boys. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
