Racing pig Rudi Rüssel (film)
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| Original title | Racing pig Rudi Rüssel |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1995 |
| length | 101 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
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| Director | Peter Timm |
| script | Peter Timm, Uwe Timm , Ulrich Limmer |
| production | Günter Rohrbach |
| music | Detlef Petersen |
| camera | Fritz Seemann |
| cut | Christel Suckow |
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Rennschwein Rudi Rüssel is a German comedy film by Peter Timm with Ulrich Mühe and Iris Berben from 1995. It is a film adaptation of the children's book of the same name by Uwe Timm .
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Things are always chaotic with the Duisburg family Gützkow. While mother Almut earns the bread as a teacher, father Heinrich, an unemployed Egyptologist , tries as a househusband. However, Heinrich has two left hands and is already overwhelmed with opening a ravioli can . He also has no control over their three children, Betty, Zuppi and Tobi. At a festival of the volunteer fire brigade, the Gützkows win a piglet in a tombola. However, Heinrich doesn't want a pig in the apartment and tries to release it on the way. In the end, the children can still persuade him that the piglet named Rudi Rüssel can move in with them. But the next day, the new pet devastated her apartment. Heinrich therefore wants to get rid of it secretly, but his children can dissuade him again.
To spend a couple of relaxing days together, the Gützkows go camping with Rudi. When Zuppi and Tobi let their piglets bathe in the swimming pool at the campsite, thereby driving all other bathers out of the pool, the camp guard assigned the Gützkows to a remote campsite by a lake. Back in Duisburg, Almut and Heinrich went to a ball one evening. While the children were watching Go Trabi Go on TV, a burglar tried to get into the apartment. Rudi bites his hand and the neighbors call the police. When the burglar is arrested, the landlord Buselmeier discovers the pig and unceremoniously puts the Gützkows in front of the door. The search for an apartment then turns out to be more than difficult, especially since Rudi is now a full-grown domestic pig . The family finally moves into a house next to a soccer field, which Heinrich has to look after as the new groundskeeper. But even in the new home everything goes haywire. Almut finally has enough and packs her bags. She is temporarily staying with a colleague. When her colleague Dr. Walter approaches her again and again, she pours a glass of wine over his head.
Meanwhile, Heinrich and the children notice Rudi's quick legs on the sports field. They let him take part in a pig race and he promptly wins first prize. Almut sees Rudi in the newspaper and realizes how much she misses her family. When Rudi runs off and runs to school, she decides to return home. To her surprise, Almut finds the house clean and tidy. After Rudi met Dr. Walter pulls his pants down, he can just escape two men who want to catch him. He stops in front of the shop window of a butcher's shop and is promptly loaded onto a trailer and taken to a slaughterhouse. When the Gützkows found out after a radio call that Rudi was to be slaughtered, they immediately set out to save Rudi. To get to the slaughterhouse, Heinrich gets a smock and pretends to be a veterinarian. With Betty and Tobi he finds Rudi and everyone can escape with a forklift. Tobi also frees the other pigs that soon populate the city. Four months later, the Gützkows visit a farm on which Rudi has had offspring in the meantime. Tobi secretly takes one of the piglets with him as a new pet and Heinrich announces that he has finally found a new job.
background
The Senator Film production was shot from May to July 1994 in Hamburg and Duisburg . The film was funded by the Bavarian Film and Television Funding , the North Rhine-Westphalia Film Foundation , the Federal Ministry of the Interior and the Film Fund Hamburg and premiered on March 16, 1995 in Germany. The title song Freedom for the Piglets by DJ Tobi and the Cool Kids was released on a maxi CD . In 2003 and 2012 the film was released on DVD. Due to its success at the box office , the sequel Rennschwein Rudi Rüssel 2 - Rudi rennt again! Was created in 2006, again directed by Peter Timm . , in which Sebastian Koch and Sophie von Kessel played the leading roles. In 2008 a television series of the same name followed, which was broadcast by ARD .
Reviews
For the lexicon of international films , the racing pig Rudi Rüssel was "a family film staged episodically with a lot of humor and charm, which gives priority to the imagination and the joy of telling stories over the reason of real existence". There is sometimes a lack of “density”, but all in all “the film offers pleasant entertainment, especially thanks to the excellent cast of the lovable family”. Cinema described the film as "pig family fun".
Awards
In 1996 racing pig Rudi Rüssel won the Bavarian Film Prize for Best Children's Film. The jury of the German Film and Media Assessment awarded the film the title “valuable”.
Web links
- Rennschwein Rudi in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Racing pig Rudi Rüssel at filmportal.de
- Pictures of the film on cinema.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Racing pig Rudi Rüssel. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ cf. cinema.de
- ↑ cf. fbw-filmb Bewertung.com