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REAL SCHELM, THE (SCHELME VON SCHELM, DIE)
After God had created the world, he decided to distribute intelligence, wisdom and stupidity in equal amounts. He entrusted this task with three little angels. Each of the angels was given a bag with one of the virtues. But the bag containing stupidity was so heavy that the little angel was immediately dragged down to earth. By mistake, he tipped the contents of his bag over the sweet little village of Schelm! And it would have to be this very same Schelm that our eleven-year-old hero Aaron moves to. The inhabitants of Schelm consider themselves the "wisest among the wise", but Aaron soon finds out that the overdose of stupidity has made them into amusing and loveable fools. Directly, an evil magician appears and creates a fearsome giant, the Golem, which destroys Schelm. Aaron and his faithful companion, the talking goat Zlateh, must prevent the magician from usurping world domination. They follow the Golem and sneak into the magician's haunted castle. In a breathtaking show of force they manage to destroy the Golem and turn the magician into a statue of stone. But Schelm is devastated, and the inhabitants decide to leave their village.
Albert Hanan Kaminski was born in Brussels, but has French citizenship. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Bezalel in Jerusalem and at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. He made several shorts from 1979-1990, including some commercials that received several prizes. In addition, he worked a lot in the field of animation which quickly became the focus of his work as an artist. He illustrated, among other things, the songs of the French singer Henri Des as well as many other well-known children's songs, directed pilot films for animation film series and animated sequences for Sesame Street, etc. In 1991, he completed the pilot film for the series The Real Schelm, with the feature-length film of the same name following in 1994.
Category Feature
Director Albert Hanan Kaminski
Screenplay Albert Hanan Kaminski, Jacqueline G. Benousilio
Director of Photography Erzebet Nemes
Editor Agi Valler
Music by Michel Legrand
Producers Peter Voelkle, Dora Benousilio
Production Companies TMO Films, Munich, Les Films de l'Arlequin/Paris, Videovox Studio, Budapest
Length 75 min
Format 35 mm, color
Dubbed Versions German, French, Hungarian
Original Version English
Sound Technology Dolby SRD
Festivals Jerusalem 1995
With backing from EURIMAGES, CARTOON
German Distributor TMO Films, Munich
World Sales
Global Screen GmbH
Sonnenstr. 21
80331 Munich/Germany
phone +49-89-24 41 29 55 00
fax +49-89-24 41 29 55 20
info@globalscreen.de
http://www.globalscreen.de
Director Albert Hanan Kaminski
Screenplay Albert Hanan Kaminski, Jacqueline G. Benousilio
Director of Photography Erzebet Nemes
Editor Agi Valler
Music by Michel Legrand
Producers Peter Voelkle, Dora Benousilio
Production Companies TMO Films, Munich, Les Films de l'Arlequin/Paris, Videovox Studio, Budapest
Length 75 min
Format 35 mm, color
Dubbed Versions German, French, Hungarian
Original Version English
Sound Technology Dolby SRD
Festivals Jerusalem 1995
With backing from EURIMAGES, CARTOON
German Distributor TMO Films, Munich
World Sales
Global Screen GmbH
Sonnenstr. 21
80331 Munich/Germany
phone +49-89-24 41 29 55 00
fax +49-89-24 41 29 55 20
info@globalscreen.de
http://www.globalscreen.de
