Michel from Lönneberga (TV series)
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| German title | Michel from Lönneberga Always this Michel |
| Original title | Emil i Lönneberga |
| Country of production | Sweden , Germany |
| original language | Swedish , German |
| Year (s) | 1975-1976 |
| Production company |
Artfilm , Svensk Filmindustri |
| length | 25 minutes |
| Episodes | 13 in 1 season |
| production | Olle Nordemar |
| music | Georg Riedel |
| German-language first broadcast |
1973 on German television |
| occupation | |
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Michel from Lönneberga (original title: Emil i Lönneberga ), also known as Always this Michel , is a German - Swedish series from 1973. It is based on the three Michel films with Jan Ohlsson ( 1971-1973 ), which in turn are based on the Fictional character Michel from Lönneberga by Astrid Lindgren are based.
Episodes
The sequence of the episodes in the films in the series and their compilation here is not identical to the narrative successes of the adventures of the respective book titles.
When Michel caught a rat
Five-year-old Michel Svensson lives with his parents, his little sister Ida, the servant Alfred (his best friend) and the maids Lina and Krösa-Maja on the Katthult farm in Lönneberga, a small village in Småland (southern Sweden). Michel is actually a nice, helpful boy, but on the other hand he has a lot of nonsense on his mind, and even if he doesn't want to play a prank on anyone, things go wrong. If he has done something again, he will be locked in the joiner's shed - or he will find safety there from his angry father. Conveniently, the door has a latch both inside and outside. In the shed he passes the time carving wooden men, his collection now includes almost 100 figures. Michel's mother also has a considerable collection, but it consists of exercise books in which she writes down her son's wrongdoing. Michel's pranks are well known throughout Lönneberga. Krösa-Maja, who likes to spread the worst horror stories, takes care of that.
On the day of the 98th male, Michel ends up in the shed three times in a row: First he places a rat trap under the kitchen table so that his father steps inside. Because he was terrified, Michel wants to console him by showing him what to have for lunch: bloodballs. However, the pulp ends up on the father's head. Then Michel, who is playing catch with Ida, gets in the way of the maid Lina, who is preparing potato pancakes. The bowl flies away and meets Michel's father, who just walked in. Now Michel decides to stay in the shed forever. When Alfred wants to go swimming with him in the pond, he can't say no and spoils Lina such a romantic evening with the servant whom she has cast an eye on.
When Michel put his head in the soup bowl
The residents of Lönneberga have collected money that they bring to Michel's mother. Purpose: Michel is to be sent to America so that peace can return to Lönneberga. Alma Svensson is outraged, of course, and even Lina is against it. After all, America has just had an earthquake, and one catastrophe should be enough. More disaster is already approaching. Michel sticks his head in the soup tureen to get the last drops, but then gets stuck. Michel is brought to the doctor in Mariannelund so that the four- crowned bowl doesn't have to be smashed . There he bows politely, bangs his bowl-armed head on the desk and frees himself - but free of charge, which his father is so pleased with that he gives him five ore . Michel swallows them on the way home. The doctor, who is visited the second time, suggests letting the coin take the natural route. At home, Michel's father glues the bowl back together. When Ida wants to know how Michel put the head in the soup bowl, he demonstrates it - and gets stuck again. This time, much to the annoyance of Michel's father, his mother takes up poker straight away .
When Michel Klein-Ida pulled up the flagpole
The Svenssons have a big party. The Swedish flag is usually hoisted when the guests arrive , but farmer Svensson cannot do this because the cow is calving. Michel uses the opportunity to pull Ida up on the flagpole, because the little one would like to see the world from above. She is also very happy, but of course the parents are horrified. They only notice Michel's prank when Mrs. Petrell asks them why the Svenssons hoisted the Danish flag . Mrs. Petrell didn’t have her glasses on, and so she saw Ida's red and white dress only blurred. Michel is once again locked in the shed as a punishment. Since his stomach growls, he puts a board from the shed window to the window of the pantry and fills his stomach there. Meanwhile, the whole company is looking for him, because they wanted to let him out of the shed again. When Lina finally finds him, everyone is relieved and doesn't hold it against him that he has eaten almost all of the sausage intended for Mrs. Petrell.
When Michel drove to the market
There is a market in Vimmerby , and the Svenssons also go there. Lina wants an engagement ring from Alfred, but understandably it is shy. In addition, the newspapers are full of horror reports: A comet is about to crash down to earth on market day. Michel is interested in the horse Lukas and is sad when a cattle dealer buys it. However, the animal cannot be shod, so the dealer recklessly says that he will give the horse to Michel if he can hold it. Michel has recognized that Lukas is by no means stubborn, just ticklish. Accordingly, he treats the animal so that the horseshoes are quickly attached. The dealer has no choice but to stick to his word. Michel's parents are meanwhile sitting at the table with Mrs. Petrell. The meal is severely disturbed when Michel, who is trying out the mayor's son's stilts outside, comes sailing through the window and lands in the soup bowl. Later he also lights the fireworks that had been prepared for the mayor's birthday party. The people in Vimmerby now think the comet has come down.
When Michel gave the feast for the poor
In Lönneberga there is a poor house in which the old and the unemployed lead a miserable existence. As if that weren't bad enough, the poor are harassed by the “Kommandora”, a kind of head of the poor house. She doesn't even hesitate to plaster a whole basket full of goodies on her own, which Michel's mother had actually intended as a Christmas present for all the residents of the poor house. When Michel heard of this, he invited all the poor to a big feast. His parents don't know about it because they are guests elsewhere. The Kommandora is lured away by a trick, but gets wind of the matter. As she sneaks around the Katthulthof, where the poor are happily feasting, she falls into a wolf pit dug by Michel . Michel is disappointed that he has not caught a real werewolf , but uses the opportunity to teach the Kommandora a lesson.
When Michel went to auction
The Katthulter go to Backhorva to an auction. Michel follows because he has to earn money as a “goal boy” beforehand. To the great annoyance of his father, he then wastes the money on all sorts of nonsense: A bread slider, a velvet box for Ida, a fire engine and several bottles of lemonade all pass into his possession. He sees himself that he has bought some things that he doesn't need. But when a brawl breaks out, at least the fire engine proves useful, because he can use it to separate the brawlers. He even gets rid of the fire pump for twice the price when the organizer buys it back for the next auction: brawls are the rule at such events. For some of the male visitors, the annual brawls are the only reason to even go to the auction.
When Michel outwitted the cow
Michel catches another good catch at the auction because he overhears that the Hinke-Lotta chicken is said to be a good laying hen. His father has less reason to be happy, because the milk cow Rölla he bought is extremely stubborn. He's about to shoot her, but Michel intervenes. He realized that Rölla is only so stubborn because she was separated from the other cows in her herd. His father gives him the cow, but on one condition: he has to drive her to Katthult. He succeeds in doing this without any problems when he drives the whole herd there, for which he also receives money from the new owner of the other cows. When Michel hands him an egg from Hinke-Lotta and milk from Rölla to eat, and when mother breaks Svensson's old bread pusher on that very day, even father Svensson has to admit that his son did good business.
When Michel wanted to pull a tooth from Lina
Lina has a terrible toothache. Michel makes several well-intentioned but unsuccessful attempts to pull the tooth. After all, the maid has to use the blacksmith's help. There is excitement over church coffee when Krösa-Maja claims that Ida has typhus . Michel only painted the little one's face blue. The pastor happened to see some old letters. Michel found it in the velvet box he bought for Ida in Backhorva. The pastor buys them for a lot of money because they carry valuable postage stamps. When Michel sits in the shed because of the typhoid prank, he decides to be good in the future.
When Michel started school
Michel comes to school. Since classes only take place every two days, he still has enough time for other important things. So he unintentionally locks his father in the so-called Trissebude during the Bible study and confuses the galoshes of the guests. However, he also likes school very much, he is even best of the class. When he has time, he reads from the newspaper to the old people in the poor house. The teacher already suspects that Michel will become something special, but that he would kiss her “out of his great kindness”, as he says, she would not have thought.
When Michel only had good intentions
Michel fears that Lina might actually be able to marry Alfred. He would do it himself to drive the maid out of the wedding plans because he doesn't want to lose his best friend to her, but Alfred thinks the matter should be approached diplomatically. The servant has absolutely no desire to say yes to Lina, but can't really make that clear to her. When he finally tells her quite bluntly that they should both leave it alone, she doesn't take it seriously. When Michel panics a picnic party by simulating a hussar attack with Lukas, his worried mother asks him if he will never change. He thinks that something can come of it, but he cannot promise anything.
When Michel made a new friend
Father Svensson bought a pregnant sow at the auction. However, she bites all the piglets in the litter to death - except for one that Michel can save at the last moment. The sow dies a little later. Michel would like to keep the piglet, Father Svensson is against it - for him it's just slaughter cattle. He doubts that the motherless animal will survive anyway. To everyone's surprise, however, Michel manages to raise the piglet and teach him all sorts of tricks. The two become inseparable, the animal even keeps Michel company in the carpenter's shed.
When Michel fed the animals with cherries
Lots of cherries are harvested on Katthult. Ms. Petrell suggests making cherry wine out of it. Father Svensson, a sworn abstainer , thinks little of that, of course. So Mother Svensson secretly prepares the wine. Michel should bury the fermented cherries on the compost. However, he innocently feeds the stuff to the rooster and his piglet. The animals get drunk and run around, frightening the hens so much that they pass out. Ida later brings them back to life. Michel also tries the cherries and promptly gets a frenzy, trouble follows on the heels. This comes to the ears of the Good Templars , an organization that advocates abstinence. Michel and his mother have to appear before one of their meetings, where the boy has to renounce alcohol consumption. Father Svensson is so enthusiastic about Michel's oath that he gives him the pig. Michel implements the oath immediately and smashes the bottles of cherry wine intended for Mrs. Petrell.
When Michel became a hero
Onset of winter: the Katthult-Hof is snowed in. Now, of Alfred injured in carvings on the thumb and draws a blood poisoning to. Michel no longer leaves the side of his best friend, who is in severe pain and is soon no longer fully conscious. Because of a snowstorm, Michel's father thinks it is impossible to take the servant to the doctor in Mariannelund. When Michel realizes that Alfred's condition is going to be life-threatening, he secretly sets off with the sledge at the very early morning. Lukas fights his way bravely (he knows the way), but gets stuck at some point. Michel gets help from a nearby farm, but the farmer there is only willing to pull the sledge out of the snowdrift - Michel has to drive on alone. At some point it just doesn't work anymore. Just as the completely exhausted boy is threatened with despair, a snow plow comes in, clearing the way to Mariannelund. Alfred can be treated just in time. After a few days, Michel goes back home with him. He has a letter in his pocket from the doctor telling Michel's parents that they can be proud of their son. Father Svensson's joy is limited, because he has a stomach ache and has to warm his stomach with a hot pot lid - and Michel, who means well again, heats the lid almost to the point of fire before giving it to his father, who is now asleep lays on his stomach.
German version
For the German version of the television series, different speakers were used than in the feature films (see: Always this Michel 1. - Michel in the soup bowl ).
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Narrator | Astrid Lindgren | Christine Gerlach |
| Michel | Jan Ohlsson | Andrej Brandt |
| Ida | Lena Wisborg | ? |
| Lina | Maud Hansson | Edeltraud Elsner |
| Anton Svensson | Allan Edwall | Jürgen Thormann |
| Alma Svensson | Emy Storm | Bettina Schön |
| Alfred | Bjorn Gustafson | Edgar Ott |
| Krösa Maja | Carsta Löck | Carsta Löck ( interview ) |
Web links
- Michel from Lönneberga in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Website for the series at Fernsehserien.de