Abenteuer in Bamsdorf

• Charlotte Küter: Granny
• Bernd Kiss: Toni
• Peter Schmidt: Klaus
• Petra Kyburg: Rita
• Klaus Boehme: Rolf
• Günter Wolf: Stippel
• Hans -Joachim Arrow: Michel
• Sylvia Hunger: Bärbel
• Claudia Seidel: Reni

Adventure in Bamsdorf is a German children's film DEFA by Konrad Petzold from the year 1958. It is the sequel to the film The trip to Bamsdorf from the year 1956.

Action

The siblings Toni and Rita arrive in Bamsdorf where they want to spend the holidays with her ​​grandmother. Toni meets here his friend Klaus again, who entrusts him his latest discovery: he has made a cave identified. Both boys inspect the cave and Toni recognizes that a transition going from her inside, but which is spilled. Toni and Klaus decide to explore the cave the next day extensively. The Little Rita they can not use it.

The grandmother sets the next day that Rita prefer to play with another girl from the village. However, when she goes for the harvest workers cooking and Rita leaves alone, they secretly follows the boy. Toni has stretched during the descent into the cave a rope, with which they can always find the cave entrance. Rita, however, takes and rolls up the thread and it follows the boy into the cave interior. Although she wants after a short time to turn back, but block after a rockfall now huge stones the output.

Deep inside the cave to meet Toni and Klaus, along with Rita. The boys react angrily, is from the adventure now seriously but all of a sudden. You do not find the exit. Finally, stand the three, especially Toni defends his little sister from Klaus, and proceed systematically to locate any outgoing transition from the room and mark the paths that are impassable. It is at the end of Rita, who finds a way out to unknown location. On a completely different place than thought, the three children come to light again, but Klaus recognizes a path again, which leads to the village. You exit the cave area and soon see a warning sign that prohibits entering the cave because of rockfall danger. The three of them return to the village and Klaus carries the little Rita on his back.

Production

In 1956 Konrad Petzold had been with The trip to Bamsdorf his directorial debut. The film premiered in December 1956 by the brother and sister Toni and Rita, the experience on the journey to her grandmother after Bamsdorf some adventure, was a great success and led to the continued adventures in Bamsdorf. The child actors were doing the same adventure in Bamsdorf connects directly to the drive to Bamsdorf, so wear the now slightly older performers at the beginning the same clothes as in the first part, so that a seamless transition between the two films into one another is suggested. Unlike the first film adventure was shot in Bamsdorf in color. The film was released in theaters on April 4, 1958.

Criticism

Contemporary critics praised director Petzold it, " to keep the story as simple and as understandable as possible [ ... ] Great news exciting are the scenes in the cave passage. The cinematic techniques are used well. The picture has a great significance, and spoke only when it is absolutely necessary. "

Abusch Alexander, Secretary of State and first deputy minister of culture, criticized the film on the second film conference in July 1958 to idyllic; Petzold was also held, completely exclude the pioneer organization in the film.

The filmdienst called Adventure in Bamsdorf " simple, natural entertainment for children. "