Haunted skyscraper
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Haunted skyscraper |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| year | 1981/1982 |
| length | 30 minutes |
| Episodes | 7 in 1 season |
| genre | Children's series , horror , comedy film |
| idea |
CU Wiesner Günter Meyer |
| music | Thomas Natschinski |
| First broadcast | December 25, 1982 on GDR 1 |
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Ghost in high-rise is a children's series of television of the GDR , manufactured in the DEFA studio for feature films , from 1982 (directed by Günter Meyer ). In terms of the framework concept, it is laid out in a similar way to the series Spuk unterm Ferris wheel, also shot by Günther Meyer . The script comes from CU Wiesner .
Plot (short version)
“Where the fir trees rustle gloomily and the walker stops
walking, there is an inn, and August and Jette Deibelschmidt live there.
When a guest with bare thalers comes under
your eye, they quickly turn to self-service: August and Jette Deibelschmidt.
Wrong Good never thrives, you can already hear the steps of fate:
there will be a knock on your door, August and Jette Deibelschmidt! "
The action begins in a tavern 200 years ago, in which the landlords Jette and August Deibelschmidt, out of greed, keep getting their guests drunk and stealing from them. However, the "police commissioner" Friedrich Wilhelm Licht discovers the two of them, as guests who August Deibelschmidt believes they have killed have come to. When the two try to incapacitate him, he is killed by a falling chandelier. In his last words, the police superintendent cursed the thieves for not finding peace in the grave for the next 200 years:
“You pay dearly for evil deeds, so go there with smoke and fire!
Before 200 years don't fade, you shall find no rest in the grave!
Salvation can only advise you if you do seven good deeds! "
Only after this time should they experience salvation if they do seven good deeds. When they want to flee and argue about their stolen property, the house catches fire, with the two dying in the fire out of sheer greed for the gold . When Jette and August rise from their graves 200 years later, they have to discover that there is now a high-rise building on the site of their “Fuhrmannsschenke” inn. Coincidentally, they notice that they have the ability to walk through walls. They try to find their way in their new environment and do the required good deeds as quickly as possible. They are monitored and partially supported by the great, great, great-grandson of the police commissioner, who (as it turns out at the end) is the actual police commissioner from 200 years ago.
Location
The exterior shots around high-rise No. 4 were taken in Berlin-Friedrichshain. The house itself is on Lange Straße not far from the Ostbahnhof . Almost all of the interior shots took place in Babelsberg , where the apartments and corridors in the studio were set up.
Data
- Camera: Peter Süring
- Mask: Peter Vohs
- Dramaturgy: Anne Goßens
- Production design: Werner Pieske
- Requisite: Peter Röh
- Editing: Ruth Ebel, Helga Wardeck
- Sound: Peter Förster
Episodes
- fire and water
- The angry sofa
- Like cat and dog
- Bemme and the seven kids
- Kiss or wedges
- Grandma's miracle cake
- Farewell against my will
background
During the GDR era, Spuk im Hochhaus was broadcast as a seven-part television series and cut into a two-part film (Part 1: Fire and Water , Episodes 1-4; Part 2: Farewell Against Will , Episodes 5-7), which was also successfully featured in the GDR cinemas ran. In 1987, the follow-up series Spuk von Outside appeared .
DVD
The series was released on DVD by Icestorm Entertainment in 2010 and has also been available on Blu-Ray since November 20, 2018 .
Web links
- Ghost in high-rise in the Internet Movie Database (English)