Till Eulenspiegel (2014)
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| Original title | Till Eulenspiegel |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2014 |
| length | 120 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
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| Director | Christian Theede |
| script | Dieter Bongartz , Leonie Bongartz |
| production | Elke Ried |
| music | Peter W. Schmitt |
| camera | Felix Cramer |
| cut | Martin Rahner |
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Till Eulenspiegel is a two-part feature film that was broadcast as a fairy tale film on December 25th and 26th, 2014 on the First German Television .
action
In addition to Till, the main characters in the film are his childhood sweetheart Kathrin with their ten-year-old daughter Marie and the mayor of Lübeck, who strives for power , Wüllenwever. Till fools him with an empty painting and exposes him in such a way that Wüllenwever has Till pursued. He escapes and jumps from the street through the open window into Marie's room, who with her eloquence saves Till from the pursuers. She turns out to be very well read and smart. In revenge for the escaped Till, Wüllenwever has Kathrin incarcerated.
Till and Marie, who cut off their pigtails, set off together to free Kathrin, whereby they repeatedly have to shake off their pursuers through cunning and mischief. Marie knows two things that she needs for liberation: a key from Erfurt that opens every lock, and a medicine that puts you to sleep. They set off with a donkey that Till freed from witchcraft to Erfurt, where Till presents it to Professor Kopernikel as a reading donkey. In return, he copies the shape of the key that he has made by the blacksmith Dietrich.
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The two are set by Wüllenwevers henchmen, but Till may his handcuffs with Dietrich open and free Marie. In order not to flee conspicuously, both spend the night at the bakery and bake owls and monkeys .
Before the persecutors they flee to Schwerin to an abbess who knows the recipe for the anesthetic drink and complains about the abundance of her sick bed. Till uses a ruse to ensure that the sick leave the house in a hurry the next day and is given a bottle of the potion. On the way, on Till's initiative, they stop at an inn, where he hopes to have a love affair with the landlady he knows. Marie opposes, takes Dietrich and bottle and sets off for Lübeck alone. She is picked up by Wüllenwever's soldiers. Till follows her and moves to Lübeck as a wandering saint because he knows about Wüllenwever's cough. The latter has meanwhile melted down the entire church treasure of Lübeck without the knowledge of the council in order to recruit new troops for a war. Till sneaks his trust as a doctor and steals his bunch of keys, which leads him to Kathrin's dungeon.
In the meantime, however, Marie has put the guards to sleep with the potion and opened the dungeon doors with the lockpick, mother and daughter hug each other. Kathrin confesses to Marie that Till is her biological father. This is taken prisoner in the already opened dungeon and sentenced to death by Wüllenwever. Kathrin and Marie get foreign, free land, make it onto a cart and drive to the market square so that - standing on foreign land - they do not fall under the Lübeck judicial law. They expose Wüllenwever's activities, which Kathrin learned about through Wüllenwever's confidante Johannsen. The tide turns on the market square against Wüllenwever and for Till, so that he gets free. Wüllenwever is arrested and Johannsen is proposed as the new mayor by Till. Till now also learns that the clever Marie is his daughter. Kathrin and Marie send Till out into the world so that Marie can continue to write down his pranks if he keeps coming back.
Historical references
The film takes up some of Till Eulenspiegel's pranks from tradition, but places them in different geographical contexts and embeds them in the freely invented framework plot that does not correspond to the tradition. In Wüllenwever, the parallels to the historical figure Jürgen Wullenwever are obvious, but the chronological assignment of Eulenspiegel's figure to Wullenwever's does not match. Professor Kopernikel is a clear allusion to Nikolaus Kopernikus , who in turn lived in a different time and not in Erfurt.
The duo Till and Marie contains parallels to the figure of Addie in the road movie Paper Moon , especially in the figure of the smart and self-confident Marie .
Locations
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The film is u. a. was shot in Lübeck , Lüneburg and Quedlinburg with the involvement of local extras. Extensive photo documentation is available for the shooting in Quedlinburg (see under web links).
criticism
Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv says: “It was to be expected that the legend of 'Till Eulenspiegel' would be filmed again in the course of the fairy tale revival. If you consider the requirement 'a film for the whole family', then Dieter & Leonie Bongartz, Christian Theede & Co did everything right. Dramaturgically meaningful expansions, the format decision two times 60 minutes, a sense of humor that knows how to convey something between the depths and the joke, an excellent image design, a 1A ensemble with the ideal Eulenspiegel actor, Jacob Matschenz - all of this makes the film a great pleasure for children & TV nostalgics. "
Web links
- Till Eulenspiegel in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Das Erste online, program December 25, 2014, 4:16 p.m. Retrieved December 26, 2014 .
- ↑ Braunschweiger Zeitung of December 24, 2014.
- ^ Rainer Tittelbach: Till Eulenspiegel film review at tittelbach.tv, accessed on February 19, 2015.