Light up, the fire department is coming
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Light up, the fire department is coming |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1979 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Rainer Simon |
| script | Rainer Simon Manfred Wolter (scenario) Barbara Rogall (dramaturgy) Wolfgang Kohlhaase (advice) |
| production | DEFA , KAG "Babelsberg" |
| music | Reiner Bredemeyer |
| camera | Roland Dressel |
| cut | Helga Krause |
| occupation | |
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Ignite, there comes the fire brigade is a German DEFA film comedy directed by Rainer Simon from 1979. The premiere took place on February 8, 1979 at the Berlin Kino International .
action
A small town in the Pre-Erz Mountains around 1900: The volunteer fire brigade in Siebenthal is founded with a celebration . Her captain becomes Franz Kaden, who immediately lets the small group do sports with great enthusiasm. The volunteer fire brigade is highly motivated and has modern technology, but there is a lack of fires in the village. Fireman Zetsche is actually an innkeeper; his inn was built over a former silver gallery that was originally full of water. Since Zetsche's wife insisted on a small fountain in the garden, the water has been pumped out over time, so that the inn is now in danger of collapsing. Zetsche has fire insurance and so his friends plan to burn down the inn. The precautions are taken quickly, but the small fire is put out by a foreign fire brigade.
In order to divert any suspicion from themselves and at the same time to highlight the services of the fire brigade, the volunteers set fire to the Siebenthal prison during a festive event with Karl May . Since there is still a silver thief in prison, whom Franz Kaden heroically rescues, the fire brigade is now a role model in the village. King Albert awards her an Order of Merit. Zetsche's inn, meanwhile, threatens to collapse more and more. Firefighter Müller is now consistently opposed to arson, as one has a reputation to defend. Only Franz stands by Zetsche and wants to set fire to the inn on the day of his wedding with the middle-class Marie. He is just preparing when a child shoots a ball at the inn - the house collapses and Franz buries under itself. The attempted arson becomes public and the remaining firefighters are arrested. The king, however, wants to cover up the fire brigade's misconduct. He orders that the Siebenthal fire brigade should be a professional fire brigade in the future and that Franz, who was believed to be dead, should receive a state funeral. However, he survived under the rubble and is being nursed back to health by the prostitute Lene. Since he has now been officially buried, he decides to emigrate to America - with Lene by his side.
criticism
Contemporary critics praised the film for its “delicious dialogues full of contemporary personalities”, which “- incidentally, in the noblest Gewandhaus Saxon - are performed by actors whose delight in their splendid roles gives them comedic wings. Here the group hero, often invoked in vain, made up of unmistakable characters. "
Other critics have suggested that while the film starts off strong, as the plot progresses, interest in the story is lost and the story "becomes obscured".
“… Halfway through the game at the latest it becomes clear that the overture was by far the most enjoyable. The opus of Siebenthal's smart-eared firefighters is slowly but surely falling apart. A balloon whose air is constantly escaping. At the end the flabby cover. The suggestive game about citizens' souls in a bourgeois idyll comes to nothing […] The main dilemma is the missing story, the thread of the story is too thinly spun to be able to carry the laudable intentions. So the film jerks from episode to episode. "
The lexicon of the international film named Zünd, the fire brigade will come up with a "historically guaranteed, staged, hearty crime comedy with many tips against German philistinism and the spirit of the subject."
literature
- F.-B. Habel : The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , pp. 709-710 .
Web links
- Ignition on, it is the fire department in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Ignite, the fire brigade is coming at filmportal.de
- Ignite, the fire department at the DEFA Foundation is coming
Individual evidence
- ^ Renate Holland-Moritz : cinema owl . In: Eulenspiegel , No. 10, 1979.
- ↑ Peter Ahrens in: Weltbühne , No. 12. 1979.
- ↑ Fred Gehler: Ignite, the fire department is coming . In: Sunday , February 25, 1979.
- ↑ Ignite, the fire department is coming. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed July 1, 2018 .