Olle witch

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Movie
Original title Olle witch
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1991
length 79 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Günter Meyer
script Anne Goßens
production DEFA , KAG "Johannisthal"
music Johannes Bad
camera Helmut Bergmann
cut Helga Wardeck
occupation

Olle Hexe is a German children's film from DEFA by Günter Meyer from 1991. It is sometimes also counted among DEFA's fairy tale films.

action

The boy Paul moves into a new apartment with his mother. He had an argument with the girl Anna on the day of the move. When Paul wants to take the elevator a little later , Anna has the same idea. In the elevator there is another argument between the two children, as Paul wants to go down but Anna wants to go up. After both have selected different floors several times, the elevator continues to descend as if by magic. When he finally stops, the door cannot be opened and only by joining forces do both children manage to get outside. However, you will not find yourself on your street, but on a dreary wasteland full of rubbish and broken cars. Again they get into an argument, but are interrupted by an arriving horse. It introduces itself to them as an andante and is blind. The witch stole his eyesight. In fact, the two children have already seen the witch briefly in the elevator and she also appears briefly in a wrecked car - a warning to the children, as it only appears when two people argue and derives its vitality from the energy of the argument. Andante, Paul and Anna set out to defeat the witch.

Because of their quarrels, Paul and Anna keep getting into dangerous situations. The witch has long suspected that her time is running out if both children pursue their goal in harmony (she has a clock of life, whereby the last lesson has already started) and so she sets various traps for them. She catches Paul in a net, but Anna frees him. When she lets Anna fall into the depths, Paul saves her and a discouraged knight at the same time. He's been without armor and weapons since he lost his fight against the witch. Andante is his horse. He joins them, as does a pointerless alarm clock. The witch wants to confuse the community and takes Anna's shape through a trick (Anna drinks a witch's brew). Her goal is to get the youth of the children, she got her eyesight from the horse and she is the master of time, because she destroyed all clocks in her country (or removed their hands). Since Andante cannot see Anna, but knows her smell, he can disenchant the witch. Anna, however, has disappeared.

Paul, the knight, Andante and the alarm clock go to the witch's seat, where Paul finds Anna sleeping in a thorn bush and kisses her awake (parallels to Sleeping Beauty ). The duel against the witch begins, but she can save herself in her magic mirror and start the attack on the knight, Anna and Paul as a monster spider. The knight is captured by the spider threads. Finally, the children manage to defeat the spider together: Paul uses Anna's hair tie to throw a piece of chewing gum into the spider's mouth. A huge bubble of chewing gum is created and destroys the spider when it explodes. The witch's clock is running out - she is defeated.

A little later, not only Paul and Anna step out of the elevator. They are followed by the knight in full armor and the now seeing horse Andante. Ritter and Andante say goodbye to the children and ride away. The alarm clock stays with Anna and Paul and warns both of them punctually when they want to start arguing again in the elevator.

production

Olle Hexe was filmed from February 15 to July 6, 1990 in Potsdam , in the area around Bitterfeld and in Most in the Czech Republic . The film had its premiere on February 11, 1991 in the Palast Theater in Gera . It was previously shown on February 9th as part of the Small DEFA Festival in the Babylon cinema in Berlin .

Olle Hexe is conceived as a children's film with fairytale elements and is in some cases counted among the DEFA fairy tale films . Critics also wrote that Olle Hexe was a "fantasy fairy tale that was evidently also sponsored by Michael Ende ", since, like in The Neverending Story , time was a central motif in Olle Hexe . Another motif of the film is the danger of the present, such as environmental pollution and addiction to games and television.

The desert scenes are charred brown coal areas near Boxberg in the south of the former GDR. The film costs averaged around 1.5 million marks, the expensive being shooting in the studio.

Trivia

In one scene, two televisions are shown, one of which shows an excerpt from The Long Ride to School , the other one from outside from spooky . The actor Hajo Müller (Ritter Friedhelm) played in Spuk from outside, but cannot be seen in this excerpt when he touches the television. In another scene, Ritter Friedhelm, Anna and Paul sing a song based on the melody of Auf die Kampf Torero.

criticism

The critics called the film a "cinema experience [...] in which it is teeming with surprises, one trick replaces the other, it sometimes gets scary and yet everything ends well."

The lexicon of international films called Olle Hexe a "carefully staged fantasy fairy tale that combines situations and characters from the world of fairy tales with everyday experiences of its young target audience and thus tells a child-friendly, exciting and humorous story full of magical tricks."

literature

  • Olle witch . In: DEFA Foundation (ed.): The DEFA fairy tale films . Zweiausendeins, Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-00-032589-2 , pp. 266-271.
  • Olle witch . In: F.-B. Habel: The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , pp. 445-446.
  • Olle witch . 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. 403-405.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See inclusion of Olle Hexe in the Lexicon Die DEFA-Märchenfilme (2010).
  2. ^ Rolf-Ruediger Hamacher: Olle witch . In: film-dienst , No. 7, April 2, 1991.
  3. ↑ Habel, p. 445.
  4. ↑ http://www.kjk-muenchen.de/archiv/index.php?id=981&abc=A
  5. ↑ Hannes John: An invitation from the "Ollen Hexe" from DEFA . In: Märkische Allgemeine , February 12, 1991.
  6. ↑ Olle Witch. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed July 31, 2018 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used