A horse for Winky

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German title A horse for Winky
Original title Het couple van Sinterklaas
Country of production Netherlands , Belgium
original language Dutch
Publishing year 2005
length 90 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
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Director Mischa Kamp
script Tamara Bos
production Burny Bos , Michiel de Rooij , Sabine Veenendaal
music Johan Hoogewijs
camera Lennert Hillege
cut Sander Vos
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Where is Winky's horse?

The children's film Ein Pferd für Winky (original title: Het paard van Sinterklaas ; in German also Winky wants a horse ) is a Dutch-Belgian co-production from 2005.

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Six-year-old Winky Wong comes from China with her mother to a small Dutch town where her father has been running a Chinese restaurant for some time. The beginning in the new home is not easy. The Wongs have to work hard to make ends meet.

Winky has to learn a new language and at first doesn't make friends at school. Then she sees a pretty pony that she visits every day in the pasture. Winky's parents are against it because they think she is too small to handle horses. When the pony finally has to be put to sleep, Winky is very sad. When she found out that on December 5th, Sinterklaas and Zwarte Piet were bringing gifts to the children in the Netherlands , she asked for a horse of her own.

She learned to speak Dutch very quickly and found a friend at school. When Winky sets up her shoe so that Zwarte Piet can put something in it, she is disappointed the next day because there is nothing in it. At first she comforts herself because she then receives the really big present from Sinterklaas. But when he comes to school, she only gets a stuffed dog from him. She runs out of class angrily. But then she sees that a horse is tied to her bike. Then she happily mounts the horse and rides it into the storage room of her parents' restaurant, where she had already set up a stable for the horse.

The horse belongs to Uncle Siem, who owns the horse farm that Winky used to go to to pony up. He also plays the Sinterklaas. The horse had accidentally been tied to Winky's bike. So now he has to go to the Wongs and explain everything. There Winky's parents can now find out everything about the Dutch Sinterklaas customs and can then talk to Winky. Winky initially gives the horse back to Sinterklaas with a heavy heart. But then he explains that he wants to keep his horse with Uncle Siem until he needs the horse again next year. And he asks Winky to take good care of the horse. Since Winky's parents have now agreed that she may ride, Winky has a nice party after all.

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Winky wants a horse based on Tamara Bo 's children's book Winky en het paard van Sinterklaas . Bos also wrote the script and won the Golden Calf for it at the twenty-fifth Dutch Film Festival. She had previously written the scripts for the children's books Minoes and Pluk van de Petteflet by Annie MG Schmidt. Her father, producer Burny Bos, had made other family films and series. Winky wants a horse is the debut feature film directing of Mischa Kamp , who previously directed short films such as De sluikrups (2002). Sinterklaas is played by Jan Decleir, who had previously played this role in the children's series "Dag Sinterklaas".

The production costs for Winky wants a horse were around 1.69 million euros. The film was released in Dutch cinemas on October 12, 2005. Overall, the film grossed around 2.13 million euros in the Netherlands up to October 25, 2006. A German voiceover version of the film was shown in Germany at the Berlinale on February 12, 2006. A German dubbed version was released on DVD on November 2, 2006 and premiered on KiKa television on December 3 of the same year .

At the beginning of the film, a stylized map shows the long way that Winky covers by plane from China to the Netherlands. What is very unusual is the fact that, although the film is from 2005, Germany is still divided into the Federal Republic of Germany and the GDR on this map .

Reviews

Monika Osberghaus reports in the Frankfurter Allgemeine on February 18 about the children's film festival at the Berlinale: “What Winky does here in the film“ A Horse for Winky ”by Mischa Kamp applies to most of the films here: The children should fix it again . "We adults somehow can't do it, take care of yourself that the world gets better," is the message. That's not really nice of the adults - but at least: With films like this in your head, you can start making better things. "

The lexicon of international films says: "The lovable, calm and sensitive narrated children's film unfolds an idyllic, yet always believable, reality-oriented dream cinema and also addresses the adaptation process of immigrants and the encounter of a child with a foreign culture."

Michelle Iwema highlights the acting of the six-year-old leading actor in Filmfocus.nl. Children can identify with Winky because many want Sinterklaas' horse. For adults, on the other hand, levels of activity such as cultural integration are interesting.

"Wat de film vanaf de first scene sterk maakt, is het spel van hoofdrolspeelster Ebbie Tam as Winky. Kinder zullen zich met Winky can identify (welk kind wil geen paard van Sinterklaas) terwijl er voor volwassenen doorheengevlochten verhaallijnen te ontdekken zijn. The most important 'volwassen' verhaallijn is the van multiculturele acceptatie. "

Awards

Winky wants a horse was awarded the "Golden Calf" and the "Movie Squad Junior Award" at the 2005 Utrecht Film Festival. The film received the “FNAC Audience Award” at the Ghent Film Festival. In 2006 Winky wants a horse received the “Audience Award” at the International Children's Film Festival in Montreal and at the 24th Children's Film Festival in Munich, the family series of the Munich Film Festival .

Summary

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With a six-year-old leading actress, the film offers very young children a role model. This is reinforced because large stretches of the film are told epically by Winky as the first-person narrator. This was also highlighted by the children's jury at the 2006 Children's Film Festival in Vienna. However, she also stated that the scene in which the pony dies, although lovingly staged, is difficult for very young children to process. In its narrative style, the film is entirely based on the point of view of the six-year-old leading actress. This is also evident in the camera work. In one scene, for example, Winky tries to get through a dense crowd of people to Sinterklaas while the latter comes in a procession across the water. Of the crowd, almost only the legs can be seen. The film also takes the target audience into consideration, in that it does not deprive young children of their belief in Sinterklaas (Nikolaus) without slipping into a pure fantasy film world. This makes it clear to the adult viewer that Uncle Siem is St. Nicholas, while this remains hidden from the youngest viewers.

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The characters are characterized very realistically, which was also highlighted by the children's jury at the 2006 Children's Film Festival in Vienna. Winky has a hard time settling in her new home. She hardly gets any support from her parents because they have to work hard. It shows that it is easier for the younger generation to get used to society. While she makes contact more quickly and learns the customs and traditions, her parents cannot do anything with them at first.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for a horse for Winky . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , October 2006 (PDF; test number: 107 887 DVD).
  2. ↑ A horse for Winky. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 21, 2018 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used