Sputnik (film)

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Movie
Original title sputnik
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2013
length 83 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
Rod
Director Markus Dietrich
script Markus Dietrich
production Marcel Lenz
Guido Schwab
music Jan P. Muchow
camera Philipp Kirsamer
cut Andreas Baltschun
Sebastian Thümler
occupation

Sputnik is a German children's film by Markus Dietrich from 2013 . The film is set in the GDR a few days before the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. The film was produced by ostlicht filmproduktion GmbH .

action

Ten-year-old Frederike wants to launch a satellite with her uncle Mike and friends Fabian and Jonathan that will send a message of peace to the Mir space station . The test run for the start of the satellite works and is interrupted by the Section Authorized Representative (ABV) Mauder.

The next day, November 4th, 1989, Frederike and her two friends received a second reprimand from the Polytechnic High School. The day becomes even worse because her uncle has been granted permission to leave the GDR and he has to leave the country by the evening. Mike hands over the command to Frederike, who is now the captain of the space-loving friends. A science fiction series gave the girl the idea of ​​building an apparatus that would beam her uncle back to the village via the telephone line. Meanwhile, the parents are secretly planning to leave the GDR, as they have done several times before, and want to keep this a secret from their daughter for the time being. Frederike overheard the plans and does not agree with them because she is afraid of losing her friends.

Special parts are required for the construction, which Frederike can only get from the operator of the sales point, Mr. Karl, under the shop counter. Since the incident with the satellites, Mauder has been keeping the children under increasing surveillance and a few days later arrests Mr Karl for the illegal trade and confiscates the required glass lens. With a distraction, the children manage to get the material they need again. But they were seen by Oliver, who actually wants to report this. But he is captured by Fabian, Jonathan and Frederike so that he does not betray the group.

On the evening of November 9, 1989, the experiment was started by Günter Schabowski while the new travel law was being promulgated . The device ensures that the electricity goes out in the entire village. Fabian and Jonathan conclude that it was not Frederike who was beamed to West Berlin, as planned, but all the adults in the restaurant run by the Bode family. Frederike is desperately looking for the parents who have traveled to Berlin before. With an emergency power generator, the children turn on the television and see reports about people standing at the border in Berlin, including Oliver's father. The children want to beam the adults back again. Since you can't use a phone, Oliver comes up with the idea of ​​reaching people using a radio signal. They manage to supply the village of Malkow with electricity again and to send a radio signal to a border post. You pose as a colonel of the NVA and prevent the soldiers from shooting at your own people. The next day the parents come back from Berlin with great cheers. Frederike's parents no longer plan to move.

criticism

The film was awarded the rating “particularly valuable” by the German film and media rating : “The story, which is about friendship, dreams, conflicts with adults and trust in one's own strengths, is so universal that children can Will understand film everywhere. "

In a review by Michael Pilz's newspaper Die Welt , the film was also rated positively, but Pilz sees an identity formation in the film like that of similar "zone children".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ FBW press release. German film and media rating, accessed on June 21, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Michael Pilz: It wasn't all bad in the GDR. Die Welt , October 13, 2013, accessed June 21, 2014 .