TKKG - The secret of the enigmatic mind machine

Movie
Original title	TKKG - The secret of the enigmatic mind machine
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	2006
length	117 minutes
Age rating	FSK 6 JMK 10
Rod
Director	Tomy Wigand
script	Marco Petry
production	Bernd Krause , Uschi Reich
music	Martin Todsharow
camera	Egon Werdin
cut	Christian Nauheimer
occupation
Jannis Niewöhner : Peter "Tim" Carsten Jonathan Dümcke : Karl Vierstein Lukas Eichhammer : Willi "Klößchen" Sauerlich Svea Bein : Gaby Glockner Hauke ​​Diekamp : Kevin Sudheim Ulrich Noethen : Teacher Manek Jürgen Vogel : Detective Inspector Emil Glockner, Gabi's father Anna Schudt : Marlies Glockner Jeanette Hain : Eleonora Robert Dölle : Weltmann Anna Hausburg : Nadine Helmfried von Lüttichau : Hackspecht George Lenz : Bienert Heinrich Schafmeister : Georg, dumpling chauffeur Ruby Kossin: Claudia

TKKG - The Secret of the Enigmatic Mind Machine is a German children's film by director Tomy Wigand from 2006 and the second feature film based on the TKKG youth book series .

action

The two 13-year-old children Martin and Claudia disappear without a trace after they met on a river bank that evening. Ten-year-old Benjamin later also disappears from Schiller-Gymnasium.

Kevin Sudheim, the winner of the Jugend forscht competition , invented a so-called mind machine, an indoctrinator for hypno training. When he is supposed to present his invention in front of the students at the Felsenstein boarding school, he breaks off his speech and behaves strangely. Kevin's friend Nadine also disappears after the presentation. It soon turns out that they were all kidnapped by a group whose leader is Hackspecht. The group, which also includes assistant Eleonora and the television presenter Weltmann, conducts experiments with the kidnapped children with Kevin's mind machine, which is supposed to increase the performance of the brain through electrical stimulation.

Tim, Karl, Klößchen and Gaby break into Kevin's house. When they find a prototype of a new mind machine there, they call their teacher Manek and tell them about it. When the Mind Machine disappeared shortly afterwards, they suspect their teacher Manek to be behind the whole thing, whereupon Karl spied on their teacher's computer with a Trojan horse. However, the suspicions against her teacher turn out to be baseless. Using the company name HS Security of the black delivery van seen at the scene, they manage to track down the group and free all the children.

background

Shooting began on August 13, 2005 and ended on October 24, 2005. Shooting took place in Munich , Tutzing , Neubeuen and Wasserburg . The film was funded by the FilmFernsehFonds Bayern (FFF Bayern) with one million euros, the Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA) with 700,000 euros and the Bavarian Banking Fund (BBF) with 200,000 euros; it was also supported by the BKM Federal Film Fund.

An audio film version was produced for the blind . The image descriptions are spoken by Katja Schild.

The world premiere took place on September 17, 2006 in Munich. The nationwide cinema release was on September 28, 2006. A total of 370,051 visitors were counted in German cinemas.

Reviews

“… That“ mind machine ”looks more reminiscent of Daniel Düsentrieb's thinking cap than science fiction, but at the same time a potential threat in terms of brainwashing of the caliber“ Uhrwerk Orange ”is to be built up. Apart from the fact that many viewers of the young target group are unlikely to find this problematic context, the film never harmoniously brings the levels of sheltered puberty and crime together. Some of the hard-working action acts (masked motorcyclists who race out of a truck in Slomo) do as little as the passably acting actors. "

- Reinhard Lüke - film service

“This adaptation [...] tries to pimp the dusty series with hip-hop beats and fantasy elements. This may correspond to the taste of the target audience, but radio play nostalgics will turn away with horror. The same is true of the morally sour end, which is contrasted by a harmless, but somewhat too long-winded crime story for children [...]. "

- Cinema

“The second movie adaptation of the stories of the popular TKKG children's crime series suffers from the sometimes all-too-old-fashioned staging. In addition, the target audience is overwhelmed with allusions to film history and the actual potential of the story is not fully exploited. "

- Lexicon of international film

Awards

Svea Bein won the Undine Award for Young Actors in 2007 for Best Debutante .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Age rating for TKKG - The secret of the enigmatic mind machine . Youth Media Commission .
2. ↑ Production data of Bavaria Film  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )
3. ↑ TKKG - The secret of the enigmatic mind machine. In: Hörfilm Database of Hörfilm eV Accessed on March 17, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Critique in film-dienst 20/2006  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ Rating of the cinema editorial team
6. ^ Entry in the Lexicon of International Films

Web links

• Official website for the film
• TKKG - The secret to the mysterious mind machine in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• TKKG - The secret of the enigmatic mind machine at filmportal.de
• TKKG - The secret of the enigmatic mind machine in the lexicon of international films