Pelle on a long journey
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Pelle on a long journey |
| Original title | Pelle Svanslös i Amerikatt |
| Country of production | Sweden |
| original language | Swedish |
| Publishing year | 1985 |
| length | 75 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Jan Gissberg Stig Lasseby |
| script | Leif Krantz |
| music | Berndt Egerbladh |
| camera |
Lennart Bång Eberhard Fehmers Hans Nerdell |
Pelle on a long journey , TV title Pelle without tail on a long journey , is a Swedish cartoon by Jan Gissberg and Stig Lasseby from 1985.
action
The cat Pelle, who has only one stump tail, successfully completed his philosophy studies in Uppsala . This worries his eternal adversary, the city cat Mike Mäuseschreck. Mike therefore invites him to a party, where he first lets him stumble into a paint bucket and then wants to mock him again because of his missing tail. Unexpectedly, a tomcat, also called Pelle, stands by Pelle at the party. Pelle Swanson is from America and raves to Pelle about the land of opportunity, full of fat rats and crispy chickens. In America anything is possible if you want it enough, even a new tail. Pelle's friend Molly Sahnenase is interested in a trip to America, but Pelle prefers to stay at home.
At night Pelle dreams of a trip to America: All he has to do is fly there with wings on his arms and experience New York City, a city where everything is huge and the rats have no respect for cats. You are chasing Pelle, who saves himself on a skyscraper. Pelle, who was asked to find a tomcat named Philadelphia Fille by an acquaintance on his departure , goes on a search, ends up in a dance show rehearsal and in the hands of a nasty Mafioso who looks like Mike. A woman tells Pelle that Philadelphia Fille has gone west, and so Pelle goes west on a paddle steamer . In a steppe he rescues Molly Sahnenase, who is rolling down a slope on a covered wagon , but is captured by a cowboy and his cronies - again in the form of Mike and his henchmen Bill and Bull - and tied to a cactus while Molly is kidnapped . The cactus becomes a torture stake that Indians dance around. In the end, they free Pelle and take him to a wise man on a mountain who turns out to be Philadelphia Fille. He gives Pelle a new, long, golden cock and enough courage to take on the cowboy in a saloon shortly afterwards and free Molly. Both flee and plunge into the depths - and Pelle wakes up.
Molly tries again to convince him of a trip and leaves him disappointed when he refuses. Mike sees his chance to get rid of Pelle. He opens a travel agency and sells Pelle, Molly and the other city cats a trip to the woods near Uppsala. In the forest, all cats cross a narrow walkway over a raging river, balancing with their tails. Pelle can't do it without a tail and turns around sadly. Molly, in turn, decides to follow Pelle on the other side of the river and not go on with the group. Mike secretly follows her, pretending to save her from dangerous creatures. Molly takes a liking to him. When they return to the group, all participants have hidden, but a large lynx has appeared and was hunting them. Mike, who has shown his strength to Molly, wants to flee from the lynx, is captured and cooked in a saucepan on a low flame. Pelle has taken a different route across the river and uses a trick to save Mike from the hands of the lynx. Mike now feels guilty and is grateful to Pelle for saving him. The other cats celebrate Pelle and they all go back to Uppsala together.
production
Pelle on the big journey is the sequel to the animated film Pelle Ohneschwanz, which was released in Swedish cinemas in 1981 . The directors were again Jan Gissberg and Stig Lasseby, while the script was again written by Leif Krantz. While Krantz had to fall back on various stories from the children's book series about Pelle Svanslös by Gösta Knutsson for the first film , he took Knutsson's book Pelle Svanslös i America from 1941 as a free copy for Pelle on the long journey .
The film was made as a cartoon from 1983, where it was made in Sweden and at the Art Centrum in Prague . In the original, the characters were dubbed by Erik Lindgren (Pelle), Ewa Fröling (Molly), Ernst-Hugo Järegård (Mike), Carl Billquist (Bill), Björn Gustafson (Bull) and Stellan Skarsgård (Pelle Swanson). Several European film companies and studios were involved in the production of the film, including: Farago Film , Filmhuset AS , Sandrews , Semic , Svenska Filminstitutet (SFI) , Teamfilm AS and Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment .
Pelle on Big Voyage was released in Swedish cinemas on December 14, 1985. In Germany, the film was released directly on video on December 10, 1987 and was shown for the first time on television on December 25, 1988 on Sat.1 . In Sweden the film first ran on TV in August 1997 on SVT 1 and was released on DVD in 2001.
criticism
For the service-movie was Pelle on a long journey , a "child-friendly cartoon". In 1986 Gösta Knutsson's widow was not very fond of the film, the skin of the books was tame, naive and a little helpless; In films like Pelle on the Great Voyage , however, it's all about money and Pelle becomes a Disney-style hero with a lot of action and violence, which no longer has anything to do with Knutsson's design of the character.
Awards
The film won the Children's Jury Prize at the Moscow International Children's and Youth Film Festival in 1985 and was awarded second prize in the Animated Feature Films category at the 1988 Chicago International Children's Film Festival.
Web links
- Pelle on a long journey in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Pelle on a long journey. at the Swedish Film Institute
Individual evidence
- ^ Pelle Svanslös - Commentary Svensk filmografi. on sfi.se.
- ↑ Data on the film on sfi.se (PDF).
- ↑ Pelle on a long journey. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ^ Pelle Svanslös i Amerikatt - Commentary Svensk filmografi. on sfi.se.
- ↑ Pelle Svanslös i Amerikatt - Utmärkelser. on sfi.se.