Private detective Agaton Sax

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Movie
German title Private detective Agaton Sax
Original title Agaton Sax och Byköpings gästabud
Country of production Sweden
original language Swedish
Publishing year 1976
length 78 minutes
Rod
Director Stig Lasseby
script Leif Krantz
production Bengt Forslund
Stig Lasseby
music Charles Redland
camera Eberhard Fehmers

Private detective Agaton Sax (original title: Agaton Sax och Byköpings gästabud ) is a Swedish cartoon by Stig Lasseby from 1976. The crime film was based on a work in the children's book series Agaton Sax by Nils-Olof Franzén .

action

London in 1963: Julius Mosca and Octopus Scott, two of Britain's most dangerous criminals, break out of their cells in quick succession. Scotland Yard's incompetent inspector Lispington is charged with apprehending the two men. Soon the streets of London are teeming with undercover agents who end up catching the criminals' two doppelgangers, Amber and McSnuff, who have to be released after a short time.

Mosca and Scott and their cronies plan to become the biggest criminals of all and therefore want to steal the data machine of the famous detective Agaton Sax. The machine contains the international crime database that would make Mosca and Scott unbeatable. The gang breaks up in Byköping, Sweden, where Agaton Sax lives with his aunt Tilda and dachshund Tickie. Amber and McSnuff also come here, hoping that Agaton Sax will help them against the overzealous Lispington. Agaton Sax is supposed to catch the real criminals, of whose outbreak he has already learned through telegrams. Before that, however, Lispington appears and arrests Amber and McSnuff. Agaton Sax cannot help either, as his data machine says that Mosca and Scott are also currently in Byköping.

The criminal gang is planning its coup for Christmas time. They organize a big Christmas party in the old castle of the place, to which they also invite Agaton Sax, Amber and McSnuff. At the party, the guests are put out of action with sleeping pills. Agaton Sax pretends to be asleep. The gang dragged him into the deadly maze of the castle. Agaton Sax secretly manages to untie his sweater from the labyrinth entrance. It is made of extremely tear-resistant wool and was a gift from Aunt Tilda. With the help of the wool trail, he will find his way out of the labyrinth at the end and can abseil himself out of the castle with the wool. Meanwhile, Aunt Tilda has noticed that the criminals have broken into her house. She maintains radio contact with Agaton Sax and can eventually lock the gang in the data engine room. Lispington, who has also arrived at Agaton Sax's house, believes Amber and McSnuff have been imprisoned again, and lets Mosca and Scott go. A short time later, Agaton Sax notices that his machine lacks the data memory that the two criminals had expanded. He takes up the fire truck chase and catches Mosca and Scott. Amber and McSnuff had also joined them for fear of Lispington's pursuit. In the end, it is the clever dachshund Tickie who can identify the real criminals who are arrested for the investigators.

production

Private detective Agaton Sax is based on the children's book Das Festbankett by Nils-Olof Franzén from 1963. Director Stig Lasseby had already directed the short television film Agaton Sax och bröderna Max in 1972 and in 1973 signed a cooperation agreement about it between the Norwegian company Teamfilm AS and the Swedish Film Institute to make a movie based on the banquet by Christmas 1975 . The cost was set at 300,000 crowns, but both budget and release date were exceeded. The film finally opened on November 20, 1976 in Sweden and had around 100,000 viewers in the first year. Private Agaton Sax was first on 16 April 1979 by the ARD shown on German television. The film was released on DVD in Sweden in November 2004.

The actor Olof Thunberg , grandfather of climate activist Greta Thunberg , played the role of Agaton Sax in the original Swedish. The film includes the songs Helvassa Gullans sång , Lägg av med den gamla stilen , Min husse and Rock-Virans sång sung by Annica Risberg written by screenwriter Leif Krantz and composed by Charles Redland.

Reviews

For the film service , private detective Agaton Sax was a "lovingly made cartoon with lots of original ideas." "Funny, bizarre and full of original ideas," said Cinema .

Awards

Private detective Agaton Sax was awarded a “kvalitetsbidrag” (“quality contribution”) from the Swedish Film Institute in 1977.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Comment Svensk filmografi - Comment Svensk filmografi on sfi.se
  2. ↑ See data on the film on sfi.se (PDF)
  3. ^ Private detective Agaton Sax. In: Lexicon of international films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  4. ↑ Private detective Agaton Sax on cinema.de