Company violin case
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Company violin case |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1985 |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Gunter Friedrich |
| script | Anne Goßens |
| production | DEFA , KAG "Johannisthal" |
| music | Bernd Wefelmeyer |
| camera | Günter Heimann |
| cut | Vera Nowark |
| occupation | |
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Companies violin case is a German children's film of the DEFA of Gunter Friedrich from the year 1985th
action
Ten year old Ole is an inventive boy. When he tried to fly a kite with the help of his best friend Andreas, he fell and broke his leg. In the hospital he saw the film The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes and, to the chagrin of his parents, immediately found a new field of activity: he wanted to become a Sherlock Holmes detective, while Andreas played Dr. Watson is to assist. Ole first tries to catch customers stealing in the supermarket, but everyone is honest. On the way home, he and Andreas witness a collision between a driver and a cyclist. They notice that the cyclist has a false beard and so they follow him, having become suspicious, to a company premises. The man gets on a pickup truck and drives away.
The two boys use a trick to find out the driver's name from the porter. You visit the driver Horst Franke at home, but he was hungover and not at work that day. A little later it becomes clear that the small truck was loaded with electrical appliances worth several 10,000 marks and has disappeared. The police are in the dark. Ole and Andreas want to find out where Frankes' co-driver, Neumann, was at the time of the crime, but the landlady states that he was also at home hungover. However, the children do not see Neumann. After several failures, Ole and Andreas initiate their classmates. Above all, Andreas is happy to finally be able to work with his secret love Marie, while the cocky Jens does not believe in the success of his classmates and is therefore not let in on the action in the end. The children spend one morning observing the company premises, but cannot find the man they are looking for, with or without a beard. Some children found only one red-brown Dacia in the ruined area.
While the other children go back to school, Ole and Andreas keep watch in front of Neumann's apartment. He's finally coming home. He drives a red-brown Dacia - and is the wanted culprit. Both follow the car into the ruined quarter. When Neumann tries to load some of the stolen goods into his car, he is surprised by Ole. Neumann ties Ole and drives away with him. Andreas notifies the police, who, under the leadership of Lieutenant Vogel, manage to arrest Neumann after a long period of persecution. In the meantime, Ole was tied up and abandoned in a forest by him. When the police are led to the forest, however, Ole has disappeared. Andreas finally locates the boy, who is bounded and leaping forward.
Ole and Andreas are returned to their parents. The next day, Lieutenant Vogel honored both boys for their work. Ole has new plans again. After he has served the house arrest prescribed by his parents, he develops a diving device that he immediately tries out in front of his classmates.
production
The film was shot in the city of Brandenburg , among others . For example, the film was shot in Rathenower Strasse with Rathenower Gate Tower, on Sankt-Annen-Strasse, on Hauptstrasse with the Fritze-Bollmann-Brunnen, in Grabenstrasse, on Havelstrasse and in the forest of Wilhelmsdorf. The film had its premiere on February 12, 1985 in the Panorama-Palast in Gera .
In terms of content, he is influenced by Emil and the detectives . The aspect of playing a detective, as featured in the film The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes, which was alluded to in the company violin case, also influenced the scenarioist Anne Goßens.
Sibylle Schönemann was originally supposed to direct the film, but declined the offered film material, so that Gunter Friedrich took over the direction. He had previously directed several children's films for television.
criticism
Contemporary critics called the film a "cunningly funny screen spectacle" and a "stroke of luck in the already fortunate DEFA children's film, which should actually be called a family film and should be visited." Other critics felt that the film portrayed and solvable Fall as too simple and obvious and therefore the film as under-challenging. The wooden dialogues of the children and adults were criticized, and the finale was sometimes described as being too slow.
For the lexicon of international films , Geigenkasten was a "[s] carefully staged and well-acted children's crime thriller, which develops tension and humor from the everyday world of children. A plea for imagination and initiative. "
Award
The Geigenkasten company received the Golden Spatz at the Goldener Spatz children's film festival in Gera in 1985 and was also awarded the Children's Jury Prize.
literature
- F.-B. Habel : The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , pp. 645-646 .
- Company violin case . 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. 337-339.
Web links
- Companies violin case in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Company violin case at filmportal.de
- Company violin case filming locations in Brandenburg an der Havel
- Company violin case at the DEFA Foundation
Individual evidence
- ↑ F.-B. Habel : The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , pp. 646 .
- ^ Hans-Dieter Tok: Sherlock Holmes junior . In: Wochenpost , No. 7, 1985.
- ↑ Joachim Giera: … play a little detective . In: Filmspiegel , No. 5, 1985, pp. 14-15.
- ^ Company violin case . In: Ingelore König, Dieter Wiedemann, Lothar Wolf (eds.): Between Marx and Muck. DEFA films for children . Henschel, Berlin 1996, pp. 338-339.
- ^ Company violin case. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed August 5, 2018 .