Zirri - The Cloud Sheep

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Movie
Original title Zirri - The Cloud Sheep
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1993
length 62 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
Rod
Director Rolf Losansky
script Rolf Losansky
Annelore Losansky (co-scenario)
Thea Richter (dramaturgy)
production DEFA
music Reinhard Lakomy
camera Peter Badel
cut Ursula Henning
occupation

Zirri - Das Wolkenschaf is a German children's film by DEFA by Rolf Losansky from 1993. It is based on the children's book Das Wolkenschaf by Fred Rodrian .

action

Christine, called Schiene, lives in a big city on Baumstrasse where not a single tree grows. She has 13 mice and stressed parents who are happy when the train goes to her grandmother's on vacation. She lives in the country, drives a horse-drawn cart and can stand on her head. Grandpa, on the other hand, is a shepherd. The rural idyll in the small town is only disturbed by the schnapps manufacturer, who constantly smokes and drives a car whose exhaust fumes, like the chimneys of the schnapps factory, pollute the air with black cloud sheep.

When they arrive, Schiene sees a white cloud sheep fall from the sky. A little later she sees the sheep again, introducing itself to her as Zirri. The black sheep pushed it from the Milky Way, where Zirri had played with other sheep friends, because it didn't want to take an afternoon nap. Now Zirri is alone on earth and fears that she will not be able to survive here for long. Schiene tells her grandma, grandpa and also the cattle doctor, but nobody knows what to do. The artist in the circus is only called Himmel-Helga because she performs on a trapeze, and the chimneys in the small town are too low for the helpful chimney sweep to help the sheep on his journey through heaven.

In the end, the local fire brigade helps : they extend their longest ladder towards the sky. When the head of the fire brigade proves to be not free from giddiness, the cattle doctor finally climbs up the ladder to the end. The charging black cloud sheep, who want to push him off the ladder, can drive away the children of the place by activating a nearby windmill and thus blowing the black sheep away. Zirri manages to jump into the sky from the last rung of the ladder and promises Schiene to visit her every now and then - in the treeless tree road, when rain.

production

The shooting ran from March 6 to April 14, 1992. The film was previewed on February 12, 1993 at the Berlinale as part of the Children's Film Festival in the Urania ; The official premiere was on November 11, 1993 at the Berlin Kino International . It was the last children's film produced by DEFA. Fred Rodrian's children's book had previously been filmed as a puppet trick by Katja Georgi under the title The Cloud Sheep .

The artists and acrobats in the film were members of the Hein circus . Manfred Bofinger drew the cloud sheep and the black sheep. The sheep was copied into the film using the flat figure technique. Victoria Wendt took over the synchronization of the cloud sheep .

criticism

Critics praised the film on the one hand as a "film for the youngest cinema-goers", which lives from "its funny details" and "from the nice mix of real and cartoon films". The film is a “lovable, entertaining adventure for the youngest. A magical, delicately transparent filmic cloud for the big screen ”.

Other reviewers criticized the “inadequate trick solution of the cloud sheep”, which was due to budget cuts. For example, when the sheep was petted, no fur movement was visible. The characters are “mostly overdrawn and almost ridiculous. The factory owner looks like a silly joke - so Losansky's criticism loses its explosiveness ”. For the film service , Zirri - Das Wolkenschaf was “a disappointing children's film that doesn't really trust its story and tries to save the plot with pseudo-stories; Unimaginatively staged and loveless in the character drawing. "

Awards

Zirri - The Cloud Sheep was awarded the Golden Prize at the Cairo International Film Festival for Children in Egypt in 1993. He received the Augsburg Children's Film Dragon at the Augsburg Children's Film Festival and was awarded a certificate in Beijing.

literature

  • Zirri - the cloud sheep . In: F.-B. Habel: The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , pp. 707-708.
  • Zirri - the cloud sheep . 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. 418-420.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Zirri - the cloud sheep . In: Ingelore König, Dieter Wiedemann, Lothar Wolf (eds.): Between Marx and Muck. DEFA films for children . Henschel, Berlin 1996, p. 419.
  2. ↑ Wilhelm Roth in epd Film , No. 12, 1993, p. 42.
  3. ↑ Zirri - the cloud sheep . In: Ingelore König, Dieter Wiedemann, Lothar Wolf (eds.): Between Marx and Muck. DEFA films for children . Henschel, Berlin 1996, p. 420.
  4. ^ Gunter Friedrich: Less and less children's films? In: Film und Fernsehen , No. 2, 1993, pp. 34-37.
  5. ↑ Katja Nele Bode in: Kinder-Jugend-Film-Korrespondenz , Ed. 54, No. 2, 1993.
  6. ↑ Zirri - The Cloud Sheep. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed August 4, 2018 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used