Die Fahrt nach Bamsdorf
- Erika Müller- Fuerstenau: Mother
- 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
- Fredy Barten: inspector
- Senta Cordel: Elderly woman
- Rolf Ripperger: Clippers
- Siegfried Kosmowski: Freddy
- Berthold Kaeske: shepherd boy
- Bärbel Poethke: Brombeermädchen
The trip to Bamsdorf is a German children's film DEFA by Konrad Petzold from the year 1956.
Action
The ten- year-old Toni is a very shy blessed child. It cleans the aquarium and leaves from the water, but forget it at some point and the kitchen is flooded and the fish are on dry land. At the same time he has put on milk and forgotten on the stove. When the mother comes with her little daughter Rita home, she sees the water on the floor and carpet and the boiling over of milk on the stove and has enough: It prohibits Toni Holiday trip to Bamsdorf to grandma. Only on Rita's prayers and promises Tonis out never to be scatterbrained, she lets both kids go on the trip.
On the way to the station, Toni was distracted by playmates, who organize a scooter competition driving. Almost two children therefore miss the train. However, in the rush they get on the train in the opposite direction and go one stop wrong before they get off. Since Toni can only remember the mother's instruction to get out after eight stations in Bamsdorf, he leaves the train right now a station too early - Rita is still sitting in the train, when his error is aware, but does the train to the last stop Bamsdorf going on without him. A shepherd boy Toni leads to the next phone so he can call the station in Bamsdorf and ask people to take his sister in the reception. Rita, however, has dropped out already at a short stop on the open road from the train. Along the way she loses various things, including her handkerchief and her little bag. Toni will find everything again and is brought to their track, but must be between escape by, among other cows on a pasture and climb a steep slope. Both children eventually meet on a lake together again and fall into his arms. Toni promises to do better. Together they wander the last stretch together to Bamsdorf to grandparents.
Production
The trip to Bamsdorf was founded in 1956 and experienced its premiere on December 22, 1956. On July 29, 1982, he was first shown at DFF 1 separately on television. Previously, he was, however, already run under the Flimmerstunde on television. At the International Film Festival in Berlin in 1982, the film as part of the retrospective of the Children's Film Festival ran.
The trip to Bamsdorf was the directorial debut of Konrad Petzold and at the same time his thesis under the direction studies. Although only 39 minutes long, the film was in the theaters of the GDR. He was such a success that in 1958 the sequel adventure was released in theaters in Bamsdorf. Also popular was the song It want two on trips go by Erika Engel and Heinz- Friedel Heddenhausen which accompanies the movie musical and became a well-known East German children's song.
Criticism
Contemporary critics praised that camera, screenwriting and directing " deliberately adjusted to the child's capacity " are. Criticized, however, was that close-ups and related visual expression means were used to tentatively.
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 The trip to Bamsdorf " simple, fun entertainment for children. "