Urmel from the Ice (1969)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Urmel from the ice |
| Country of production | Federal Republic of Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1969 |
| length | 115 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK / JMK 0 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Harald Schäfer |
| script | Manfred Jenning |
| music | Hermann Amann |
| camera | Karl-Heinz Schlutter |
| cut | Margot Schellemann |
Urmel aus dem Eis is a puppet play produced by the Hessischer Rundfunk and broadcast on German television by the Augsburger Puppenkiste . Directed by Harald Schäfer . The film is based on the novel of the same name Max Kruses . Josef Göhlen took over the overall management .
action
The plot is divided into four parts.
The iceberg
Prof. Habakuk Tibatong teaches animals to speak in his home country, pump colonies. He tried the method on his domestic pig Wutz. However, when he was referred to as a charlatan in the wake of an article about an alleged prehistoric Urmel , he had to flee with Wutz and the orphan boy Tim Inkblot before he was deprived of custody. Together they convert Wutz '"slumber barrel" into a boat and land on the South Sea island of Titiwu. There the professor also teaches the Waran Wawa, the penguin Ping, the elephant seal and the shoebill Schusch to speak, but they all develop a speech impediment - the elephant seal, who even takes singing lessons at their own request, has difficulties with the "E" - and "I" - vowels that sound like an "Ö" with him, Schusch pronounces the "R" like an "L", with Ping it is a "Pf" instead of a "Sch" and Wawa dominates the "S" and not the “Z”, instead he pronounces it like a “Sch” or like a “Tsch”. When one day an iceberg runs aground and the residents find an egg in it, they decide to hatch it. The professor does not rule out the possibility that it is a Urmel egg. In fact, an Urmel hatches, which from now on is cared for by Wutz. The professor immediately sends his rival Zwengelmann a letter confirming the living Urmel. The episode ends with Wutz asking the professor if he wasn't doing anything stupid.
The shot
When Zwengelmann reads the letter, he immediately goes to the fallen King Pumponell and calls for an expedition . Pumponell, who has become a big game hunter, shows tremendous interest in both Urmel and talking animals. That is why he flies to Titiwu himself, without Zwengelmann, only with servant Sammi. First of all, the inhabitants manage to keep the Urmel hidden. Soon, however, Pumponell becomes more and more intrusive. Prof. Tibatong asserts that everything was just a pipe dream of himself. At that moment, the Urmel, which has learned to speak over time, bursts in and Pumponell shoots. Thanks to Tim's intervention, the shot only goes into the air and the Urmel escapes in the chaos. It runs into the surrounding forest. The indignant king swears to find it and take it with him.
Adventure
On his escape, Urmel meets Wawa, who brings it to safety in a cave. He asks it not to go further into the cave until it gets help, but Urmel explores it anyway. When it starts to laugh violently at a source of nitrous oxide , stalactites come loose, one of which hits Urmel on the head, so that it faints. When Wawa alerts his friends, they can rescue Urmel together, but they also feel the influence of the gas. At night, Wawa meets Pumponell and Sammi on the beach and claims that Urmel is still in the cave and that he doesn't like the other islanders. His plan is to mislead Pumponell and leave him to laughing gas. This plan fails, however, because when they are exposed to the laughing gas, the mountain begins to collapse and Wawa pulls them away from the source. When Pumponell sees the giant crab in the cave , still under the influence of the laughing gas, he takes it for the Urmel and shoots, which almost collapses the cave and the entrance is buried. For the other inhabitants of the island this is noticeable as an earthquake .
The rescue
Since Wawa is also in the cave, it is decided to rescue the buried victims. Tim got the idea that you could turn Wutz '"slumber barrel" into a submarine . That's how it happens. The barrel is then pulled into the cave by the elephant seal through a passage. Before he is saved, Pumponell has to swear not to harm Urmel. Urmel, who was supposed to be recovering from his injury, secretly gets up from his bed and runs into a trap of the king. However, he stands by his word and releases it again after a short sightseeing flight over the island.
synchronization
| role | figure | voice |
|---|---|---|
| Urmel | Urmel | Max Boessl |
| Pig | pig | Herbert Mayer |
| Wawa | Monitor lizard | Hanns-Joachim Marshal |
| Ping | penguin | Margot Schellemann |
| Shush | Shoebill | Ernst Ammann |
| Prof. Habakuk Tibatong | human | Walter Oehmichen |
| Pumponell | human | Sepp Strubel |
| Elephant seal | Elephant seal | Walter Schellemann |
| Sammi | human | Claudia Hansmann |
| Tim Inkblot | human | Gerlind Ohst |
| Dr. Zwengelmann | human | Manfred Jenning |
| teller | Manfred Jenning | |
| Urmel mother | Urmel | Rose Oehmichen |
Urmellied
The so-called Urmellied became famous in connection with the puppet performance of the Augsburger Puppenkiste . Urmel sings a song about children who are gripped by the thirst for discovery and want to "see beautiful things". However, the mothers warn the children to stay in the room and sleep. The children go out of the room anyway and only come back to their mothers later, whereupon they are scolded. The children then ask their mothers not to be angry because they should "see beautiful things".
Trivia
- Schusch has a different speech impediment than in the book. Instead of pronouncing the “i” like an “ä”, he speaks an “l” instead of the “r”.
- Due to the great success, a sequel called "Urmel plays in the castle" was written in 1974. Like its predecessor, it consisted of four episodes, but was based on two books by Max Kruse: The first two episodes are based on the book "Urmel plays in the castle", the third and fourth episodes on "Urmel's mad dream".
Reviews
“One of the classics from the doll box with loving figures, a conciliatory ending and the usual blue plastic garbage bags and soap bubbles that represented the sea. And the cry “Urmel! Urmeliii! “Stays in the ear forever. Urmel's voice belonged to Max Boessl, who had experience with creatures that actually cannot talk. He had spoken to the cat Mikesch in 1964. The series was also a success abroad: it was sold in more than 30 countries. Five years later, the popular characters in Urmel, plays in the castle, returned to television. "
literature
- Max Kruse : Urmel from the ice. Thienemann, Stuttgart / Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-522-16902-6 .
- Barbara van den Speulhof, Fred Steinbach (ed.): The big book of the Augsburger Puppenkiste. (= Anniversary band for the 65th anniversary and the 60th television birthday of the Augsburger Puppenkiste). Boje Verlag, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-414-82354-0 , pp. 118-123.
Web links
- Urmel from the ice in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Urmel from the ice . In: Stars-an-Faeden.de
- Urmel from the ice at Fernsehserien.de
- Urmel from the ice in the online film database
Individual evidence
- ^ Quotation from the television dictionary by Michael Reufsteck and Stefan Niggemeier. In: Fernsehserien.de . Retrieved December 28, 2019.