Peter and the Wolf (2006)

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Movie
German title Peter and the Wolf
Original title english Peter & the Wolf
polish Piotruś i wilk
Country of production Great Britain , Poland
Publishing year 2006
length about 29 minutes
Age rating FSK No age limit
Rod
Director Suzie Templeton
script Sergei Prokofjew (libretto),
Suzie Templeton (adaptation),
Marianela Maldonado (co-author)
production Hugh Welchman ,
Alan Dewhurst
music Sergei Prokofiev
camera Mikolaj Jaroszewicz
cut Tony Fish ,
Suzie Templeton

Peter and the Wolf ( English Peter & the Wolf ; Polish Piotruś i wilk ) is a British  /  Polish cartoon from 2006 . The approximately 29-minute long film in stop-motion technology is a radical reinterpretation of Sergei Prokofiev's symphonic work Peter and the Wolf from 1936. Suzie Templeton is the author and director . The premiere was in September 2006 at the Royal Albert Hall . In 2008 the film received an Oscar in the Animated Short Film category.

action

The action follows Prokofiev's fable in a relatively broad outline: The scene is wintry Russia of the present. The boy Peter lives with his grandfather and his beloved pet - a duck  - in a poor hut on the edge of a forest. Wolves also live in it .

In the first scene, a snowstorm is raging and Peter's grandfather makes makeshift repairs to a high protective fence, always on the lookout for the wolves whose howls can be heard. However, the boy does not want to see the purpose of the fence and tries to get out. Instead, the grumpy grandfather sends him shopping in town. A scary animal trainer gives Peter a blue balloon there. Immediately afterwards, however, the boy gets in the way of a teenage hunter, who puts him in a garbage can out of anger. When Peter later crouches down by the fence at home, an injured hooded crow flutters from a branch over the protective fence and goes down directly in front of Peter. The crow no longer succeeds in ascending high enough, not even with the help of Peter's balloon. Peter sneaks into the house and gets the key to the door in the fence. In doing so, however, grandfather's fat house cat becomes aware of him. She follows him and while Peter and his duck slide on the frozen pond, she tries - but in vain - to capture the bird. When grandfather discovers the open door, he brings Peter back in immediately. This, however, keeps the cat and the duck outside.

Shortly afterwards a hungry wolf appears. Since the duck is on the ice, he first pursues the cat, which is saving itself on a tree. The boy observes the scene through a hole in the fence and tries to get the duck back. Only then does it leave the safe ice and the wolf devours it. Now Peter decides to catch the wolf. Equipped with a noose and a net, he climbs over the fence and comes to a branch of a gnarled tree. While the wingless bird distracts the wolf, Peter manages to pull the noose around its tail. Before he can throw the net, however, he loses his balance and falls backwards. Since he has tied the other end of the rope around his body, he is also pulling the wolf up with it. When the angry animal sees that it cannot free itself, it storms towards Peter. However, at the last moment he can throw the net over the wolf. So this is trapped.

Now the hunters reappear from the beginning of the film. One of them wants to shoot the wolf, hindered by his clumsy fat friend, but he misses his target. Then the two of them flee. Alarmed by the shot, Grandfather comes and wants to kill the wolf - but Peter prevents this. Grandfather and Peter bring the wolf into town to sell there. While the grandfather is negotiating with possible buyers, Peter presents the wolf to the children present. But he quickly notices that the wolf should either be trained or killed. When the hunters come and torment the defenseless wolf, he opens the door of the cage and the wolf runs back into the forest. This ending means not just a reinterpretation of Prokofiev's original, in which the wolf remains trapped in the zoo, but a conscious departure.

music

Prokofiev's original music was recorded by the Philharmonia Orchestra under the direction of Mark Stephenson . Each of the main characters is assigned to certain instruments and has its own musical theme :

Technology and production

The "skeletons" of the figures are wire frames with ball joints around which bodies are modeled with latex foam . The human skin is made of transparent silicone with pigments and the hair is made of animal hair such as llama wool. The clothes are made of real fabric and the animal skins are made of faux fur glued on in pieces . The eyes are made up of painted plastic beads with partially animated glycerine - this makes them appear particularly expressive. The human pupae measure approximately 30-35 cm.

The landscapes and buildings are true-to-scale models. Computer technology was mainly used in post-processing, for example as a blue screen for backgrounds, or for retouching disruptive elements such as rods and guide rails. Only a few details that cannot be realized with stop-motion , such as swirling snowflakes or Peter's blue balloon, are completely computer-animated . The film consists of over 45,000 individual shots, the work took a total of five years to complete. It is a co-production of the Polish Se-ma-for Produkcja Filmowa Sp. Zoo and the British Breakthru Films . Also involved were the Norwegian Storm studio, Channel 4 Television Corporation, Archangel, TV UNAM and the Polish Film Institute. The film was produced in Se-ma-for Studios in Łódź .

Compared to the original, the film not only does without a narrator, but also without dialogue. Only music and pictures “speak”.

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ pbs.org: Peter & the Wolf ( memento of April 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) accessed February 14, 2014
  2. ^ A recording of a broadcast on 3sat as part of the “Märchenhaft” theme day (October 3, 2010). See also: programm.ard.de: Peter and the Wolf . ( Memento from October 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ a b c Making of Peter and the Wolf . 3sat , October 3, 2010, recording of a broadcast on October 3, 2010
  4. ↑ Allocation of the instruments ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Game) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.peterandthewolffilm.co.uk
  5. ↑ dontpaniconline.com (English) accessed October 20, 2010.
  6. ↑ arthaus-musik.com ( Memento of the original from November 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved October 26, 2010 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.arthaus-musik.com