Susanne and the magic ring
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| Original title | Susanne and the magic ring |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1973 |
| length | 72 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
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| Director | Erwin Stranka |
| script | Erwin Stranka |
| production | DEFA , group "Children and Youth Films" |
| music | Uve Schikora |
| camera | Lothar Gerber |
| cut | Helga Gentz |
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Susanne and the charm ring is a fairy tale of the DEFA of Erwin Stranka from the year 1973 .
action
Twelve year old Susanne talks about ants in class. To illustrate, she brought a terrarium . When the students get heat-free during the lecture, everyone rushes out of the classroom. The terrarium is destroyed and many insects are trampled on. Because Susanne prefers to take care of insects rather than important subjects such as mathematics , the other children mock her. While her classmates are having fun on the beach, Susanne goes home angry and sad and then visits an old lock keeper, whom she tells of her suffering. Then a magpie appears who tried to steal a ring from a wooden box from the lock keeper. The old man explains to Susanne that the ring is a "carbuncle" that can comfort a person. You can entrust everything to the ring and show it your own world so that the ring can learn. The ring would glow for beautiful things and black for ugly things. The old man says that he used to use the ring himself, but that it no longer fits old people. Susanne is happy about the ring and begins to show it her world.
First, Susanne shows her parents the ring. The next day your school is on the “learning program” of the “Karfunkels”. In doing so, she makes sure that the ring gets a lot of the difficult math. A short time later she succeeds in solving a difficult math problem that nobody else in the class knew. The teacher praises her, and she gets an A in maths for the first time. In the afternoon, Susanne and her father are taking a trip in the motorboat when the engine suddenly goes on strike. Susanne wishes the engine to run again, and it actually works again afterwards. Susanne now believes that the ring actually has magical powers. In the evening she dreams that she will get all ones on the certificate. After a dream carousel ride with her insects, Susanne dreams of marrying her classmate Andreas.
The next day the children play circus on the beach. Susanne is once again excluded from this, but would like to play. She changes one of Andreas's magic trick so that it works differently than planned, and Andreas is angry with her. At the end of the circus, the children let up some New Year's Eve rockets which, according to Susanne, actually do some damage. The children flee from the rushing adults, only Susanne stays and takes on everything. Andreas is impressed by Susanne's courage and they both become friends. On a boat trip, Susanne Andreas can convince of the magic power of the ring. When the ring is supposed to help him win a soccer game, however, he fails: At the last minute, the opposing team wins and Andreas turns away from Susanne. The next day, Susanne proves to him that the ring works: she wants a camel that appears. She mounts it and it rides away at a gallop without being able to get off in time. Andreas stays behind alone and starts looking for Susanne, but cannot find her. Finally Susanne appears again by herself. Relieved, Andreas begins to tease Susanne. In the process, Susanne loses the ring that the magpie has carried away. Susanne and Andreas are with the old lock keeper. Susanne confesses to him that she has lost the ring, but the lock keeper is not angry. He explains to her that everyone comes to a point in life where they need a "carbuncle". The magpie has probably just needed the ring. Susanne then wonders what worries a magpie might have.
production
Susanne and the Magic Ring was filmed in Brandenburg, among other places, within 47 days. The working title was My Friend Carbuncle . The film premiered on August 16, 1973 in the Leipzig Cinema for Young People and was shown in GDR cinemas the next day.
After filming was over, the main actress Monika Wolf was allowed to keep the wedding dress that she wears in a film scene and that was specially made for her.
Reviews
For film-dienst , Susanne und der Zauberring was "a film that simultaneously satisfies and productively questions the child's longing for magic and miracles."
Awards
Monika Wolf received the Children's Jury Prize for Best Actress at the 8th Moscow International Film Festival in 1973. Susanne's film collective and the Magic Ring - Rosel Klein, Erwin Stranka, Lothar Gerber and Monika Wolf - were awarded the Heinrich Greif Prize , 2nd class, in 1974.
literature
- Susanne and the magic ring . In: DEFA Foundation (ed.): The DEFA fairy tale films . Zweiausendeins, Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-00-032589-2 , pp. 152–157.
Web links
- Susanne and the charm ring in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Susanne and the magic ring at filmportal.de
- Susanne and the magic ring at the DEFA Foundation
Individual evidence
- ↑ Susanne and the magic ring . In: DEFA Foundation (ed.): The DEFA fairy tale films . Zweiausendeins, Frankfurt am Main 2010, p. 157.
- ↑ Susanne and the magic ring. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ See defa.de