Tambari (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Tambari |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1977 |
| length | 89 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
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| Director | Ulrich White |
| script | Ulrich White |
| production | DEFA , KAG "Berlin" |
| music | Peter Rabenalt |
| camera | Otto Hanisch |
| cut | Renate Bade |
| occupation | |
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Tambari is a German children's film of the DEFA of Ulrich Weiss from 1977. It is based on the children's book Tambari of Benno Pludra .
action
The seaman Luden Dassow is dead. In his will he bequeathed his Zeesen boat Tambari to the fishing village of Koselin on the Baltic Sea , from which he came and where he returned shortly before his death. As a condition he stipulates that the cutter may never be sold. The residents are not very enthusiastic. Luden Dassow, who sailed the seas and saw the world all his life, was always hostile to them. Only the young Jan Töller, son of the carter Heinrich, made friends with the old man, accompanied him to fish and let him tell him stories of his adventures. Tambari is said to be an island in the Pacific Ocean .
When, after Luden Dassow's death, the Tambari fell into disrepair, Jan urged the boat to be repaired, but the adults had neither interest nor time for it. The fishermen are worried because they have had a bad fishing year. Although they have lost several large traps in the past due to a violent storm, they are installing new traps. The daring attempt is rewarded with a rich catch. Heinrich Töller, who was responsible for the action, allowed his son to renovate the Tambari himself. Voluntary children quickly found themselves to found a provisional brigade . Their leader is not the teacher Steinkrug, who shuns responsibility, as intended, but the carter Kaßbaum, a good-natured but drinking man.
In summer the children manage to get the Tambari back on the road. When the re-laid trap was destroyed in a violent storm, Jan's father Heinrich was criticized. The fishermen want to sell the tambari and although Heinrich refuses to cheat the children out of their hard work, Jan gives him the tambari because he realizes his difficulties within the production group. Jan thereby incurs the anger of his comrades. After the launch , the children go on the maiden voyage on the Tambari with Kaßbaum . Back on land, the argument between the children continues, as they have now seen what they could have experienced with the cutter.
Meanwhile, the notary arrives at the village pub , who, with the help of the fishermen, has found a way to circumvent Luden Dassow's testament. Kassbaum opposes the machinations of the fishermen and accuses the notary of bribery . Some fishermen abandon their desire to sell the tambari. Heinrich also speaks out against taking the Tambari away from the children, and the notary seems to have doubts.
In the end, Jan holds an imaginary dialogue with Luden Dassow and promises him one day to explore the world like him.
production
Shooting took place in Kamminke and the local bar Kellerberg , in which the beginning and end scenes of the film were shot in the Fischerkneipe, on Schwielowsee , on Rügen and in Greifswald . Tambari had its premiere on July 8, 1977 on the open-air stage of the Central Pioneer Camp "Alexander Matrossow" near Bad Saarow .
Uschi Brüning and Annerose Dubé provide vocals for the instrumental pieces in the film . The narrator of the film is Hans Sievers .
Tambari was the feature film debut of director Ulrich Weiß, who also wrote the screenplay and had previously made documentaries. The film is one of DEFA's last black and white productions.
criticism
The contemporary critics praised the “formal brilliance” of the film: Director Weiß “captures ... the bitter romance of the sea and the coast [and] looks ... unvarnished into the life and everyday life of the fishermen.” The formal borrowing from the documentary was precisely what happened occasionally also criticized and described as “more documentary than poetic”.
The distortion of the adult world was criticized: "[White] differentiates relatively little, is occasionally quite crude, presents a phalanx of outsiders and bizarre types, almost all of whom fail, are unable to assist the bright children in their useful will". The behavior of adults is "overdrawn ... to the point of caricature" in the film. Current reviews, however, praised "the carefully staged and described biographies of the individual characters".
The film-dienst called Tambari a “problem film that argues for the preservation of fantasy in a world geared towards rationality. Through the consistently retained narrative perspective from the perspective of a child, the adult characters are often satirically distorted, which caused difficulties for the film and its director in the GDR ”.
literature
- F.-B. Habel : The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , pp. 595-596 .
- Tambari . In: Ingelore König, Dieter Wiedemann, Lothar Wolf (eds.): Between Marx and Muck. DEFA films for children . Henschel, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-89487-234-9 , pp. 235-237.
Web links
- Tambari in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Tambari at filmportal.de
- Tambari at the DEFA Foundation
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Hans-Dieter Tok: From Ottokar, the "meddler" and from Jan, the fisherman's boy . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung , July 15, 1977.
- ↑ GA in: Der Neue Weg , July 15, 1977.
- ↑ Karla Anders: Magic, poetry and the tumult of war . In: Filmspiegel , No. 17, 1977, p. 10.
- ↑ Tambari . In: Ingelore König, Dieter Wiedemann, Lothar Wolf (eds.): Between Marx and Muck. DEFA films for children . Henschel, Berlin 1996, p. 236.
- ↑ Tambari. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .