Let our spirits live!
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Let our spirits live! |
| Original title | Ať žijí duchové! |
| Country of production | ČSSR |
| original language | Czech |
| Publishing year | 1977 |
| length | 80 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Oldřich Lipský |
| script | Jiří Melíšek |
| production | Barrandov film studio |
| music | Jaroslav Uhlíř |
| camera |
Jan Němeček Vladimír Novotný |
| cut | Miroslav Hájek |
| occupation | |
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Let our spirits live! or Long live the ghosts (original title: Ať žijí duchové! ) is a children's film and musical from the ČSSR. It premiered on Czechoslovak television on All Saints' Day in 1977. The shortened German dubbing for Progress Filmvertrieb took place in 1978 by the DEFA Studio for Synchronization, Berlin and was shown for the first time on August 18, 1978 in the GDR cinemas. It was broadcast for the first time on ARD on New Year's Eve 1979 under the alternative title Es Leben die Geister .
action
During the summer holidays, 20 children and young people from a small Czech town are trying to transform a ruined castle into a multi-purpose building. Above all, the tower (keep) is to be used for their study group and on the ground floor as a museum. Their plans fall on fertile ground only with the president of the cooperative for the Brtník Castle (DrPrHrBr = Dr užstvo pr o Hr ad Br tník) and the school director Vávra, who is about to retire a year. Jouza, the branch manager of the local self-service shop, and his sister-in-law, Ms. Pilátová, on the other hand, want to set up a champion breed in the ruined castle and earn a lot of money with it. The result of the first vote on the further use of the castle ruins is therefore 2: 2.
Independently of this, the children drive to the castle in the evening with the school principal Vávra in a self-made car. There two ghosts appear to them who have lived in the ruined walls for 400 years: knight Wilhelm Brtník von Brtníksgrün and his 11-year-old daughter Leontýnka. Because she feels very comfortable around the children of the same age and they help her father when he fell into a pit that he had actually intended to deter the youngsters, the ghosts help them rebuild the castle. The castle should belong to the youngsters during the day and the ghosts at night. The ghosts only become visible when the first night bird flies up.
When rebuilding the missing castle roof, they are actively supported by the forester, who provides timber, and numerous brownies conjured up by the knight Brtník.
In the end, Janek succeeds in releasing Leontýnka from her ghostly existence with the help of a daisy flower. Both want to enjoy the remaining youth together, because they grow up faster than expected.
criticism
“Fast-paced and funny mixture of everyday adventures and fairy tales with excellent trick sequences. Although the film, enriched by musical elements, appears a bit antiquated in everyday history, it is consistently on the side of the children, whose sense of solidarity is addressed. "
background
Most of the exterior shots were taken in 1977 at Krakovec Castle . A song insert was shortened in the German version due to the clear allusion to the economy in shortages, other passages are missing in the version available today due to severe material errors in the copy.