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The Heathens of Kummerow
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Wikipedia article
'The Heathens of Kummerow' is a 1967 East German-West German family comedy film directed by Werner Jacobs and starring Paul Dahlke, Ralf Wolter and Fritz Tillmann. It is an adaptation of the novel of the same name, written by Ehm Welk and published in 1937.
The film's sets were designed by the art directors Senta Ochs and Alfred Tolle. Location shooting took place around Rgen.
Plot
It is the era before World War I and short before Easter in the village of Kummerow in Pomerania, and a group of boys revive a custom of "heathen baptism". It is said that the villagers had resisted Christianization by remaining in the water during the baptism, which lived on as a traditional contest where boys will stand in the cold water, and the one who endures the longest is crowned "heathen king". This practice is not appreciated by the local pastor, although when the pastor and the illegally employed cowherd Krischan get into trouble with the miller Dker, the boys' talent for playing pranks comes in handy.
Cast
*Paul Dahlke as Pastor Breithaupt
*Ralf Wolter as Krischan
*Fritz Tillmann as Mller Dker
*Rainer Penkert as Grambauer
*Theo Lingen as Sanftleben
*Gnther Jerschke as Niemeier
*Wolfgang Jansen as Josef
*Jochen Sehrndt as Christian Wendland
*Hans Klering as Nachtwchter Brensprung
*Horst Kube as Bauer Trebbin
*Irene Korb as Hermine Breithaupt
*Tatjana Iwanow as Frau Dker
*Angela Brunner as Luise Brensprung
*Erika Mller-Frstenau as Frau Grambauer
*Karin Heidemann as Ulrike Breithaupt
*Wolfgang Hinz as Hermann
*Jrg Resler as Martin Grambauer
*Gerald Schraml as Johannes
*Hans Bosenius as Kantor Kannegiesser
*Gnter Drescher as Bauer Fiebelkorn
*Nico Turoff as Wirt Krger
*Albert Zahn as Otto Kienbaum
Production
The film is based on the 1937 novel 'The Heathens of Kummerow' by Ehm Welk. The book was the third best selling novel written in Nazi Germany, and along with other novels by the apolitical humourist Welk, it became a modern classic in East Germany. The film adaptation was the first film co-produced by East and West Germany.
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