Nils Holgersson's wonderful journey (film)

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Movie
Original title Nils Holgersson's wonderful journey
Country of production Germany / Sweden
original language German
Publishing year 2011
length 230 minutes
Age rating FSK without
Rod
Director Dirk rule
script David Ungureit, Gerd Lurz, Meibrit Ahrens, Martina Müller
production Claudia Schröder
music Stefan Hansen
camera Philipp Timme , Alex Lindén
cut Friederike Weymar, Sebastian Lipp
occupation

Human roles

Animal sounds

Nils Holgersson's wonderful journey is a German-Swedish television film from 2011. The film, originally conceived as a four-parter, was first broadcast on 25 and 26 December 2011 on ARD as a two- parter . From mid-April 2012 and on December 27 and 28, 2015 at rbb , the film was repeated as a four-part series. The film is based freely on the novel Little Nils Holgersson's Wonderful Journey with the Wild Geese by the Swedish writer and Nobel Prize winner Selma Lagerlöf .

action

Part one "The Departure"

Nils lives on a farm and has a reputation for being a good-for-nothing because he is reluctant or inadequate to perform tasks. He is not very friendly to animals. He shoots Bataki the raven with a slingshot, but just misses him. When a milk delivery fails due to the intervention of other village boys, Nils is not allowed to go to a family celebration. He has to stay at home and look after the animals. Åsa, the pharmacist's daughter, is Nils' only friend. She comes to visit him and the two of them go fishing.

After an argument with Åsa, Nils returns to the farm. He notices that the fox Smirre has killed a goose and illegally drives the tractor in order to do his other tasks all the better and faster. In the process, however, he destroys a fence and meets the court goblin . Nils catches the goblin and asks him to conjure up the dead goose again. This annoys him so much that he enchants Nils into a little gnome. Suddenly he understands the language of animals. He hears the wild geese talking and the last remaining goose named Martin wants to fly with them to Lapland . While trying to stop Martin, Nils is lifted into the air and the two join the wild geese with their lead goose Akka. The goblin wants to transform Nils back, because he is not allowed to enchant people and threatens him with trouble with the "goblin guild", but Nils is already out of reach for his magical powers. Desperate, he talks to the raven, who doesn't want the boy to regain his normal size.

Shortly after departure, the geese find out that Nils is a scaled-down person and do not want to take him with them anymore. Martin, the domestic goose, is excluded because of its poor flight ability. Shortly afterwards Akka meets Bataki and bets him that she will manage to make a "good boy" out of Nils. Ergo, Nils can continue the journey.

While Nils and Martin fly with the geese, Åsa goes in search of Nils. The fox Smirre also follows the group. He meets Nils and forces him to reveal the geese's whereabouts. Immediately afterwards, Nils falls into a pit, which was probably intended as a fox trap. While Nils struggles to free himself from the trap, Smirre attacks the domestic goose Martin. Whether he will get her is initially unclear. While searching for Martin, Nils discovers two tramps and, in order not to be seen, has to hide in one of the food bags and is therefore taken by the tramps undetected. They go to an estate and try to beg for a meal from the owner. At this moment Martin, who is still alive, crash-lands right next to the tramps. When trying to catch the goose, the tramps get into an argument with the landlord due to the influence of Nils, who is still hidden in the bag, and in general chaos, Nils manages to escape on Martin's back, but he is seen by the landlord and for you Imp is held. Again with the wild geese, however, Nils cannot bring himself to admit his betrayal.

Meanwhile, Åsa takes the intercity bus to the terminus. There she is seen by Nils and Martin from the air, and because Martin wants to fly to her and can only be stopped by Nils at the last moment, Nils loses his shoe, which Åsa finds. Meanwhile, Smirre and Bataki meet, and Smirre asks the raven to deliver a message to Akka, the lead goose.

Meanwhile, the house goblin gets a visit from Formula, a representative of the "goblin guild", a total paragraph rider, who wants to deprive him of his magical powers if Nils does not get his normal shape again by the end of summer.

Nils learns to take responsibility and saves a little boy, who is drifting on a big lake in a leaky boat, from drowning by telling his mother in his elf shape where the boy can be found. Meanwhile, Åsa is getting closer and closer to Nils and the geese. When the geese meet Smirre, he offers to leave everyone in peace if they hand over Nils for it. After Akka refuses, the fox reveals that Nils betrayed the group in an emergency in order to save himself.

Part two "The Probation"

Nils admits his betrayal of the geese to the fox Smirre, which leads them to consider delivering Nils to Smirre and thus to remain unmolested by him in the future. Akka speaks out against it, prevails and the geese flee with Nils. Because of a violent storm, they are forced to fly to Gotland. There Martin discovers the goose Daunenfein, which is injured. Nils can adjust the wing again, and Martin falls in love with Daunenfein. While Åsa travels further north, Nils is caught by the well-known vagabonds and sold to a circus. The geese are everywhere looking for Nils, and Smirre tells them that he ate Nils. Sadly, the geese fly on to Lapland. Smirre is satisfied that Nils is now all alone and follows his trail.

In the circus, Nils is supposed to replace the eagle Gorgo, who has been the attraction until now, but has been too listless to fly for some time. While the two are talking, Gorgo says that he was raised by Akka a long time ago until they argued. A circus employee enables Nils and Gorgo to escape and they fly to Lapland, where they meet the other geese again. These are already breeding, and Martin and Daunenfein are also expecting offspring. Åsa has also arrived in Lapland and lives with a small group of Lappers . Nils discovers Åsa and watches her from a distance, but does not yet dare to reveal himself. But with small signs he gives Åsa the feeling that he is there. The raven Bataki tells Nils that there is an opportunity to be transformed back. To do this, however, he had to be at the Holgersson Hof with Martin on the equinox . When Nils tells Martin this, all his hopes are dissipated because Martin doesn't want to go back. Deeply disappointed, Nils Åsa reveals herself, who tells him that she likes him very much. Since Nils doesn't want to go home as an imp, Åsa has to travel back alone.

The geese have raised their young (Nils looks after a goose boy who saw him first after hatching) and are preparing for the return flight. But Smirre gets another cub from Martin. Nevertheless, the geese set out with Nils because they cannot wait. Nils vows to render Smirre harmless. During a rest, Nils, Martin and a dog manage to chain the fox to a dog house. Nils gets to know Selma Lagerlöf, to whom he tells his whole story.

The goblin on Nils 'parents' farm is slowly running out of time and the goblin guild threatens to lose his magical power. Shortly before the goal, Martin decides to bring Nils home and show his new family the farm. Nils' father catches Martin and wants to slaughter him. At the last moment the goblin can remove the spell and Nils can just prevent the slaughter. The parents are happy that Nils is back home. With a heavy heart he says goodbye to the geese and realizes that he can no longer understand their language. Åsa appears and both are happily reunited.

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The film has many content differences and additions to the original novel by Selma Lagerlöf , but retains Nils 'enchantment and his subsequent departure with the geese, including the reasons for this, and also roughly retains Nils' most important adventures on the journey and their outcome at. The plot of the film is based only on the main storylines of the novel. The numerous chapters in novels on Swedish cultural studies, which had little to do with Nils Holgersson and the geese, were also left out. In addition, some modern plot elements have been added. Unlike the novel, the film version apparently does not take place chronologically at the time of the industrialization of Sweden , when the country was opened up with the construction of factories operated by steam engines , but decades later. In terms of its setting, the plot of the film could initially be set in the period from the 1920s to the 1950s, but due to various modernizations, references are made to the present, so that the story obviously takes place in 2011, the year the Films. In the first part of the film, the fox Smirre sniffs out the domestic goose Martin and, based on the smell, determines who was born in 2009. The modernizations also include the appearance of tractors, a representative of a Kobold guild (KI), bus travel and a message transmission via "Unteret". The messages are transmitted by moles, which also ask for confirmation of receipt. Some characters from the book are also missing, such as the stork Ermenrich , the crane Trianut or the evil crow Wind-Eile and his wife Wind-Kora . And above all, Åsa in the film is no longer the fateful half-orphan who crosses all of Sweden to win her father back - but the well-protected daughter from a good family who, after the mysterious disappearance of her poorer friend Nils, also runs away to look for him.

The author Selma Lagerlöf acts as the narrator who tells Nils Holgersson about his trip. She then asks him to use his story for a book and takes him and the geese from one place to another in a carriage.

Most of the shooting took place in Trollhättan and Lapland in spring 2011 .

Different species of geese appear in the film, Martin is a domestic goose , Akka is a Canada goose , Daunenfein is a striped goose and most of the other geese are gray geese .

Reviews

“… So a nice film turned out, which would have had what it takes to be great, if one had just saved one or the other ingratiating on supposed reception patterns. Perhaps this will lead to a new interest in Selma Lagerlöf's work. And someone takes on Selma Lagerlöf's wonderful "Gösta Berling", which plays like the encounter between a poet and an elf at the Frykensee and translates the local myths into the novel of a landscape that cannot easily be found another. It would be worth the effort. "

- faz.net

"... An enchanting and funny update for a new generation of Holgersson fans ... convincing actors, great dressage"

- TV feature film

“... And the (approach) is extremely modern even today, in the age of hectic psychologization and melodramatic overstimulation: Nils Holgersson, full of educational optimism, encourages young people's courage to trust nature as they grow up. That takes more breath than the usual TV snippets provide. "

- spiegel.de

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The lakes and forests, they rush past on faz.net v. December 23, 2011.
  2. ↑ TVSpielfilm, Issue 26/11, p 118 and 129th
  3. ↑ Goose or not at all on Spiegel-Online-Kultur v. December 24, 2011.