Tom Sawyers and Huckleberry Finn's adventures
| Movie | |
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| German title | Tom Sawyers and Huckleberry Finn's adventures |
| Original title | Les Aventures de Tom Sawyer |
| Country of production | Germany , France , Romania |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1968 |
| length | 344 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Wolfgang Liebeneiner |
| script | Walter Ulbrich |
| production | DEROPA Film- und Fernseh GmbH ( Walter Ulbrich ), Franco London Film ( Henri Deutschmeister ) |
| music | Vladimir Cosma |
| camera |
Robert Le Febvre , Ovidiu Gologan |
| cut | Boris Lewin |
| occupation | |
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Tom Sawyers and Huckleberry Finns Adventure (original title: Les Aventures de Tom Sawyer ) is a ZDF adventure four-part series from 1968 with Roland Demongeot and Marc di Napoli in the leading roles. The film adaptation is based on the books Tom Sawyer's Adventure and Huckleberry Finn's Adventure and Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain . Because of the relatively low costs, the film was shot in the Danube Delta in Romania , which Walter Ulbrich found “much more original” than the original landscape on the Mississippi , and in four studios near Bucharest .
action
The story takes place in the 19th century in a town on the Mississippi in Missouri above St. Louis . The main characters are teenage friends Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn . Tom is raised by his aunt Polly, with whom he lives with his little brother. Huckleberry, called Huck or Hucki, is homeless and does not go to school. His father is a tramp.
One night the boys witness a murder in the cemetery. They know who the killer is: not the village carpenter Muff Potter, who is suspected by everyone, but the dangerous Indian Joe. Fearing his revenge, they swear not to tell anyone about the night's tragedy. Instead, they decide to become pirates and live on Jackson Island for the rest of their days. Tom Sawyer also decides to do so out of disappointment at having been laughed at by Becky Thatcher, his adored, out.
On the second night, a deserted ferry boat runs aground near the island. To his astonishment, Tom meets Indian Joe and his new friend Windy. Tom and Huck manage to escape despite the violent storm. After the ferry boat broke apart in a storm at night, they think Joe is dead. When they meet him again, however, they decide to free Muff Potter, who everyone thinks is the killer, from prison using a self-dug tunnel. Before they can make him aware of this possibility of escape, Potter flees and is captured again a few hours later. Tom decides to tell the truth in court. Indian Joe, who sits among the spectators in the courtroom and senses danger, escapes before Tom has even given evidence. When Tom and Huck meet him again one day in a half-collapsed house, they overhear him and his friend Windy and learn that he wants bitter revenge on them. To make matters worse, they still have to watch as the crooks dig up a treasure that they themselves suspected to be there. On the way to his sleeping place, Huck meets Windy and Joe again, overhears them and learns of an act of revenge against the widow Douglas. He can get help in good time and in this way saves the widow's life.
A few days later, Tom and his girlfriend Becky Thatcher go on a trip to the McDuff Cave, but get lost there and suddenly meet Indian Joe. Tom and Becky can escape. When Tom tells about the encounter with Indian Joe a little later, Indian Joe is found starving in the cave. Tom and Huck find Indian Joe's treasure a little later. Huckleberry, who now lives with the widow Douglas out of gratitude, is suddenly followed by his father, whom everyone thought was dead. He's after his son's fortune. While Tom is traveling to Keokuk , Huck is kidnapped by his father. However, Huck escapes to the uninhabited Jackson Island and meets Jim, the widow's runaway slave. Together, Jim and Huck flee to freedom on a raft. On their way they meet the steamer that brings Tom back from vacation. The raft drifts by without the two friends knowing of each other and seeing each other again. The film ends with a mention that Tom and Huck will never meet again and that their adventures together are over. "Because it is almost exclusively the story of two boys, it has to come to an end here too ... without becoming an adult story".
In the original Mark Twain ( The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ), on the other hand, Huckleberry Finn meets his friend Tom Sawyer again after several adventures not shown in this film adaptation. He organized a spectacular liberation of the meanwhile re-arrested slave Jim.
Reviews
The audience reviews of the magazine Gong rated all episodes except for episode 2 as "very good". The film also received the Perla Television Award in Milan.
Others
- The film shows, in accordance with the entertainment requirements and the main target group assumed to be ignorant of the subject, several logical errors, anachronisms and breaks in authenticity. In the nocturnal cemetery scene on the grave slab, the year of death of Ross Williams, who has just died, is given as 1845. In the scene of the subsequent court hearing, a portrait of Abraham Lincoln with a mourning ribbon can be seen. Lincoln was elected president in 1860 and died in 1865.
- A newly dubbed short version of 128 minutes in length was shown in the GDR in theaters under the title Tom Sawyer's Adventure from August 29, 1969. Tom and Huck were dubbed by Bernd Lehmann and Oleg Koulechoff ; Herwart Grosse , Hannjo Hasse , Hans Hardt-Hardtloff , Norbert Christian and Siegfried Kilian were among the other speakers for the GDR dubbed version .
media
- Film music
- Tom Sawyer , 1 EP, Ades ALB 328 (France; radio play with film music)
- Les Aventures De: Tom Sawyer - Musique Originale Du Feuilleton Télé , 1 EP, Ades PM 907 (France 1969)
- Roland Demongeot: Tom Sawyer - La Fête Au Pays , 45RPM, CBS Records 4174 (France 1969)
- Adventure classic - original music from the legendary TV four-part series , 2 CDs, BSC Music / Cine Soundz Prudence 398.6619.2 (Germany 2001)
- Vladimir Cosma: 40 Films, 40 Bandes Originales , 17 CDs, Larghetto Music LARGH004 (2009)
- DVD
- Tom Sawyers and Huckleberry Finn's Adventures (2 DVDs), Concorde Home Entertainment 2006
- literature
- Oliver Kellner & Ulf Marek: Seewolf & Co. - The great adventure four-part series of ZDF , Schwarzkopf and Schwarzkopf, ISBN 3896026321
Web links
- Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn's adventures in the Internet Movie Database (English)