Winky's Horse
- Ebbie Tam: Winky
- Aaron Wan: father
- Hanyi Han: mother
- January Decleir: Uncle Siem / Nicholas
- Betty Schuurmann: Aunt Cor
- Mamoun Elyounoussi: Samir
- Sallie Harmsen: Sofie
The children's film Winky wants a horse ( Alternative title: A horse for Winky ) is a Dutch-Belgian co-production from the year 2005.
Action
The six -year-old Winky Wong comes along with her mother from China in a Dutch town, where her father was for some time engaged in a Chinese restaurant. 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 first finds no friends at school. Since she sees a pretty pony that she now visited every day in the pasture. Winky's parents, however, are against it because they think that they would be too small to deal with horses. As the pony must be euthanized finally, Winky is very sad. When she learns that bring in the Netherlands on December 5, Sinterklaas and Zwarte Piet the children gifts, she wants her own horse.
She learns very quickly to speak Dutch and finds a girlfriend in school. As Winky prepares the shoe so that the Zwarte Piet puts into something, it is the next day disappointed because there 's nothing in it. First, she consoles herself, because she then gets the very big gift from Sinterklaas. But when it comes into the school, she gave birth just a stuffed dog. Furious, she runs then from the class. But when she saw that on her bike a horse is tethered. Cheerful she climbs then the horse and rides with it in the storage room of the restaurant her parents, where she had already set up a stall for the horse.
The horse is one uncles Siem, who owns the horse farm to the Winky 's always gone to the pony. In addition, this makes the Sinterklaas. The horse had been inadvertently linked to Winky's bike. So he now has to go to the Wongs and explain everything. There, now Winky's parents learn all about the Dutch Sinterklaas customs, and you can then say with Winky. Winky 's first heavy heart the horse Sinterklaas back. But then he explains that he wants to put his horse at Uncle Siem until he does the horse next year. And he asks Winky take good care of the horse. Now also Winky's parents agree that they should ride, Winky has now but a great party.
Comments
Winky wants a horse based on Tamara Bos children's book Winky en het Paard van Sinterklaas. Bos also wrote the screenplay for and won the Golden Calf on the twenty-fifth Dutch Film Festival. Previously, she had been the screenplays for the filmed children's books Minoes and Pluk van de Petteflet by Annie MG Schmidt written. Her father, the producer Burny Bos, had already produced other family films and series. Winky wants a horse is the feature film directorial debut by Mischa Kamp, who had previously performed in short films such as De sluikrups (2002 ) Director. The Sinterklaas is played by Jan Decleir who had this role previously embodied already in the children's series " Dag Sinterklaas".
Production costs for Winky wants a horse were about 1.69 million euros. The film came in the Dutch cinemas on 12 October 2005. Overall, the film played in the Netherlands approximately 2.13 million euros a until 25 October 2006. In a recorded voice German version of the film was shown in Germany at the Berlinale on February 12, 2006. In a German dubbed version of the film was released on 2 November 2006 on DVD and on 3 December of that year premiered on television on KiKa.
At the beginning of the film the long walk is shown on a stylized map, the Winky travels by plane from China to the Netherlands. Very unusual is the fact that although the film of 2005, Germany is still divided on this map in the Federal Republic of Germany and German Democratic Republic.
Reviews
Monika Osberghaus reported in the Frankfurter Allgemeine February 18 on the Children's Film Festival at the Berlinale: " What Winky here in the movie" A horse for Winky " by Mischa Kamp makes, considerations apply to most of the films here: The children are once again set. "We bring adult 's somehow not taking care of yourselves, therefore, that the world is better," is the message. That's not really nice from the adults - but still: With such films in the head one can ever quite good to start with the world improving ".
The lexicon of international film says: " A quiet Christmas movie for younger children, although it deals with the integration background, but not recessed detail, but focuses primarily on contemplative entertainment and children's summons in which the wishes - sometimes [ sic! ] - has not helped. "
Michelle Iwema lifts in Filmfocus.nl forth the spectacle of the six -year-old protagonist. Children can identify with Winky because many wish for the horse of Sinterklaas. For adults, however, levels of activity as the cultural integration are interesting.
Awards
Winky wants a horse was in 2005 at the Utrecht Film Festival awarded the " Golden Calf " and the " Junior Squad Movie Award". At the Ghent Film Festival, the film received the " FNAC Audience Award ". 2006 was Winky wants a horse, both the " Audience Award " at the International Children's Film Festival Montreal as well as at the 24th Children Film Festival Munich, the family series of the Munich Film Festival.
Summary
Construction
With a six -year-old actress, the film offers an identification figure for very small children. Encouraged is so because much of the film by Winky are told as first-person narrator epic. This was from 2006 also highlighted by the Children's Jury at the Children's Film Festival in Vienna. However, they also cited that the scene in which the pony dies, though lovingly staged, it is difficult to process for very small children. The film goes into his narrative entirely on the perspective of the six-year lead actress. This is also evident in the camera movement. So Winky tries, for example, in a scene to penetrate through a dense mass of people to Sinterklaas, while this comes in a procession over the water. From the crowd almost only the legs can be seen. Also, regardless of the target audience, the film takes, by not believing in Sinterklaas ( Santa Claus ) takes small children, without slipping into a pure fantasy film world. So the adult audience is clear that Uncle Siem Santa Claus, while this remains hidden from the recent viewers yet.
People
The people are very realistically characterizes what was from 2006 also highlighted by the Children's Jury at the Children's Film Festival in Vienna. Winky difficult to settle it in their new home. She gets hardly support from their parents because they have to work hard. It shows that it falls to the young generation easier to settle into a society. While contact is faster, and the customs and practices learned, their parents can do anything with it at first.