White Cloud Carolin (film)

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Movie
Original title White cloud Carolin
Country of production GDR
original language German
Publishing year 1985
length 86 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Rolf Losansky
script Rolf Losansky,
Klaus Meyer scenario
production DEFA , KAG "Babelsberg"
music Karl-Ernst Sasse
camera Helmut Grewald
cut Use Peters
occupation

White Cloud Carolin is a German children's film by Rolf Losansky from 1985. It is based on the children's book of the same name by Klaus Meyer .

action

Hannes Wittspeck is in fifth grade in the village of Boddenhagen on the Greifswalder Bodden . He is friends with Carolin, who is the same age, and finally falls in love with her. He compares it to a white cloud in the sky and remembers it again and again when he looks into the clouds. The class teacher accepts her first love, she was only twelve years old when she first fell in love, but Hannes is now more often criticized because he is inattentive in class or bothers him with defiant answers. Carolin's mother agrees with the relationship, Hannes' mother reacts rather irritably, while the father wants to help Hannes amicably. Hannes soon had his first lovesickness because the active pioneer Carolin often spends her free time with Benno, who always has sweets with him and is also a pioneer. Hannes, in turn, is often approached by Kerstin, as he has found an ownerless motorboat in the Boddenwasser that, according to the rules of the Bodden, belongs to the finder. Hannes can now drive on the bay and Kerstin likes to see herself as a passenger.

Carolin is amazed that Hannes is avoiding her more and more, and thinks it's silly that he is jealous. There is a duel between Hannes and Benno, when Benno makes fun of them, because Benno and Carolin would never have been a couple. The fight ends with the two boys reconciling.

Carolin finds her mother unconscious in her apartment. She calls Hannes for help, who immediately calls the ambulance and initiates first aid measures. Carolin's mother comes to the hospital and Carolin and Hannes make up. When Carolin visits her mother in the hospital one day, Hannes wants to take the motorboat across the bay to her and pick her up. Benno and Kerstin join them. Arrived on the other bank a storm is brewing. Benno refuses to take the boat back, so the defiant Hannes wants to go alone. Carolin and Kerstin join Hannes because they don't want to leave him alone on the dangerous journey. The three children are in distress on the bay because they got stuck on a shoal and the waves are now filling the boat with water. Meanwhile Benno has called for help in the village and a lifeboat drives to the bay to fetch the children. As suddenly as the storm started, it subsides again. The lifeboat driver decides that Hannes should now find himself ashore and receive his sentence. Kerstin reacts rebelliously to the allegations of her parents standing on the bank, Carolin's grandma worried. Hannes' mother leaves without a word, while his father vacillates between anger and understanding. It remains to be seen whether Hannes and Carolin will become a couple again.

production

The film premiered on July 12, 1985 in Berlin's Colosseum and was released in GDR cinemas on the same day. In September 1986 the film was shown in German cinemas. It had its GDR television premiere on October 24, 1987 on DFF 1 and its first German television broadcast on December 25, 1987, when it was broadcast on ZDF.

criticism

Contemporary critics praised director Losansky as a "sensitive, cautious director, who works with great sensitivity and tact, does not overlook the adult world, but portrays it all too much as an ideal in their understanding of the two 'lovers' . ”Other critics found that the final scene with the dramatic boat trip“ is not one of the director's happy moments ”and that Losansky is doing“ cinema instead of […] realistic and poetry-filled cinema ”. "The film lapses into an action rhythm here that seems inappropriate to the previous one," later critics say.

For film-dienst , White Cloud Carolin was “a poetic children's film that takes the feelings of its characters seriously. Despite his rather relaxed narrative rhythm, a humorous, 'exciting' journey into the emotional world of children. ”“ Wonderfully told, with believable characters, ”said Cinema .

Awards

White Cloud Carolin was awarded the Golden Sparrow and the Children's Jury Prize at the 4th National Festival for Children's Films in Gera in 1985. In 1985 it was also given the state title of “valuable”.

literature

  • F.-B. Habel : The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , pp. 682-683 .
  • White cloud Carolin . 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. 343-345.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Hans-Dieter Tok in: Leipziger Volkszeitung , July 20, 1985.
  2. ↑ Rosemarie Rehahn : Only twelve and already in love . In: Wochenpost , No. 31, 1985.
  3. ↑ White Cloud Carolin . In: Ingelore König, Dieter Wiedemann, Lothar Wolf (eds.): Between Marx and Muck. DEFA films for children . Henschel, Berlin 1996, p. 345.
  4. ↑ White Cloud Carolin. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  5. ↑ See cinema.de