Das fliegende Klassenzimmer

• Joachim Fuchs Berger: Dr. John Bokh, called Justus
• Heinz Reincke: Dr. Robert Uthofft, called Non smoking
• Robert Jarczyk: Jim,
• Hans Putz Jr.: Martin Thaler
• Thomas Eggert: Sebastian Frank
• Alois Mittermaierstrasse: Matthias, called Matz
• Diana Körner: Sister Beata
• Bernd heart leap: Theodor Laban
• Otto Bolesch: Professor Kreuzkamm
• Tilo von Berlepsch: Director Grünkern
• Otto Kurth: Otto Carstens
• Wolfgang Schwarz: Lord of simmering
• Anne Marie Wernicke: Woman Kreuzkamm

The children's film The Flying Classroom by director Werner Jacobs is a German film from the year 1973. It was created based on the eponymous novel by Erich Kästner.

Action

The alone little Johnny Despite flying from the U.S. to Germany. There should pick up his grandmother him. However, this accident on the way to the airport in a car accident. The captain ( the machine is flown in by Johnny Germany ) will leave him and when things turn out that his grandmother had an accident, he adopted the boy. However, since he is so often the way, Johnny is later to Bamberg in the boys school of Johann Sigismund school.

The now become a bit older Johnny has sold his life story to his friend Uli told, who also lives in the boys boarding school. The favorite teacher of boys is Dr. John Bokh they call " Justus ". In class of Justus they get the idea how nice it would be if you could just fly there to all points of the earth, instead of treating only theoretical. So Johnny comes up with the idea to write to his typewriter on a play, the title of the piece is: The Flying Classroom.

The boys have to write to Professor Kreuzkamm a dictation. The exercise-books are this with his son Rudi. On the way home Rudi is ambushed by a group of high school students. They kidnap Rudy, along with the dictation folders. The high school students are at enmity with the boys from the boarding school for many years. The exercise-books have stolen it as revenge because the boarder had stolen a special football with all National team autographs from the junior high school. Justus requires students, this to give back. This prompted her favorite teacher they come after, however, remove all previously autographs of the ball

In a parked old rail car, the boys take on their father's friend, the one they call Non smoking because of the railway carriage is actually a Non smoking compartment. However smokes the " Non smoking " quite a lot. By the postman who delivers a letter, they will also learn his real name; Dr. Robert Uthofft. The Non smoking helps the boy in the fight against high school students - suggests that in each case is to beat just a boy from the two groups. When the boarder win, they should again get the exercise-books together with Rudi. Winning the junior high school student, they should get a new ball to the autographs. Matz takes for the boarders and also wins the fight. Nevertheless, the high school students do not want to comply with their agreement. Then it comes to a bitter slugfest between the parties. Johnny Sebastian Matz and take the opportunity to liberate Rudi. They realize that the high school students have burned the exercise-books. Sebastian takes the ashes of them to Professor Kreuzkamm to pass.

The boarders try to sneak into the boarding - there they are by their tutor Theodor Laban, called the beautiful Theodore, caught and brought to Justus. He is disappointed by the boys that they have not asked him to exit permission. For " punishment" they have to spend with him two hours. Justus told the boy during house arrest a story. It was about a boy who has lived thirty years ago in the boarding school. The boy's mother fell ill. Since the mother was transferred to a hospital near the boarding school, the boy was able to visit them. However, he did not dare to trust his teacher. And so he slipped away secretly always from boarding. Finally, the boy was locked up as punishment. However, a friend of the boy was serving the sentence, so that he could continue to visit his mother. It turns out that these boys Justus and are Non smoking. The two have, however, lost sight of. Dr. Uthofft had lost his daughter and his wife. Then he had disappeared from the city.

The children make sure that the two meet. Justus tried to persuade the Non smoking, to resume his old job as a doctor. This, however, is not ready. Uli is the victim of a prank of his classmates. They have hung him in a trash can on the ceiling. Of Prof. Kreuzkamm is just as excited as the fact that exercise-books are burned. As punishment, he lets the boys write a very heavy dictation and subsequently seeking to exercise-books with the security itself. Uli, it is sufficient permanently to the new string, especially since he is still teased about his role in the girls planned theatrical performance. He tells his classmates that he will do something special; indeed, they see later Uli at a window of the school building. Of these, Uli can fall with the help of an umbrella. The boys are worried about Uli. Fortunately, Dr. Uthofft and Justus are nearby: The Non smoking remembers back to his skill and rescues in emergency surgery the broken leg of Uli.

After the dust has settled to Uli something that already appeared on the next problem. The parents of Martin are in Mombasa, in order to build a new life there. Since they suffered financial setbacks, they have no money to get Martin in the holidays to himself. Therefore, this has to spend the only holiday in the boarding school. In addition, still is the performance of the play " The Flying Classroom " at. Since Ulis parents came too late, this could no longer see the play - Uli tells them, therefore the complete content. This class can fly in all parts of the earth with the help of an airplane. In the last act they even land in the sky. The end of the piece is the realization that flying is just a beautiful dream. But the parents of Uli come up with the idea to invite the whole class to a flight to make the dream a reality. Uli proposes as a tourist destination Mombasa, so Martin can see his parents again. Therefore, the class is flying at the end to Mombasa - and the Non smoking, who now works as a doctor in the hospital and only on weekends lives in the railway carriage, with his new girlfriend, the school nurse Beate, to Venice.

Special

The film adaptation from 1973 is a color remake of the film from 1954 In this film the story was adapted to the circumstances of the 1970s.:

• The story of Erich Kästner was moved from the winter ( Christmas time) in the summer.
• The parents of Martin are not unemployed, but try to begin a new life in Africa (probably they are farmers ).
• The foster father of Harry is not commercial fleets, but the plane captain with Lufthansa.
• Johnny was not sent by his father to Europe, where there are no relatives, that the Father is rid of him. In this version of the story Johnny's grandmother had an accident on the way to the airport and therefore can not pick him up.
• At the end of the story the father of Uli for the entire class paid for a flight to Africa to visit Martin's parents and to make a reality of "flying classroom".
• The " Non smoking " Dr. Uthofft says that he plays piano in the " tunnel dog ". This is the famous historic Schlenkerla pub in Bamberg.

In addition, in the remake Johnny takes over the role of Martin as the leader, while Martin is reduced to his diligence and the "parent problem ". Sebastian's arrogance is mitigated in comradely mockery, which makes him appear more sympathetic. The dancing partner of the beautiful Theodor ( here Professor Cross comb daughter) will be expanded to his girlfriend. The figure of the school nurse is the personality of a " sister Beate " award, which allied itself with the Non smoking and at the end flies with him to Venice for a relaxing holiday.

Location

The film is set in the Bamberg boys boarding Aufseesianum, which is mentioned by name in the film.

More films

Overall, the novel was made ​​into a film three times. See also:

• The Flying Classroom (1954 )
• The Flying Classroom (2003)