Figure 1.--This is a Czech movie "Král sokolu" (Thomas the Falconer), released in 2000. It takes place in what is now Czechoslovakia (one might guess Bohemia) during the Middle Ages. Orphan Thomas is able to understand the language of animals. |
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Johnny Sheffield has a brief part at the beginning of the film when he plays the young Knute. This was just one year following his first Tarzan film. The movie is rather corny, but he plays his part quite well. He wears knickers. Several other kids appear, mostly in knickers. Knute himself has two kids. The two are pictured together on a train when the older was about 12.
German propaganda minister Joseg Gobbels ordered a film made on the suicidal Prussian defense of Kolburg during the Seven Years War in the 18th century. Frederick the Great in the Seven Years War faced an allied coalition (Austria and Russia). Of course Hitler and Goebbels thought this would be an excellent example for the German people as the Allied coalition closed in on the NAZIs. The film was made at a time that shortges were becoming increasingly severe and that the Wehrmact was being pushed back on wide front on the Eastern Front. Evn so, whole military units were employed in the film as exrtras. A scene in the film shows boy soldiers dieing in the defense of Kolburg. At the time the Voklsturm was being formed, composed of Hitler Youth boys and old men who were expected to follow the example of the boy soldiers at Kolburg.
Sensitive film set in the 1980s about a crusty Czech bachelor who finds himself responsible for a 3-year old Russian boy. The boy is a charming little fellow who plays his part beautifully. He was found in a Moscow kindergarten and had no acting experience.
The Soviet movie "Komarov Brothers" was the work of famous Soviet screenplay writer and film director Juri Nagibin. It is about a Kindergarten group. In the summer Soviet Kindergartens worked as usual, they had no summer vacations. But many city kindergartens (mainly boarding) during the Summer went (along with
all children and teachers) to "dacha" - special summer kindergarten complex located in the healthful country areas. There children could bask in the sun, play in the open air, learn to swim and so on until August, when they returned to the city and their usual building. This film is about such a Summer "dacha" Kindergarden.
A idealistic young Southern white teacher is assigned to teach in a black school on an isolated South Carolina island. Based on his actual experiences described in his book, Over the Water [I forget the name of the book, this is just a guess.] Konrak takes a far different appraoch to teaching than the mean-spirited back teacher he replaced. The same author also pubished a book made intio a movie about his experiences at the Citedel--a Charleston military academy.
"Chin Up, Johnny!" is about Johannes, a boy from a privileged family, just the kind the NAZIs reviled as bourgeois. He is not of the "New Order". He doesn't understand the
importance of "kamaradeschaft" (comradeship) and sacrifice. It seems he is initially resistant to joining the Hitler Youth (HJ), but ultimately is sent to an HJ camp
where at last he becomes a dedicated Hitler Junge.
Korczak is the story of the Polish educator who cared for orphaned Jewish children. The director was Andrei Waida who is probably Poland's most distinguished film director. The movie is a dramatization of the final years of the heroic Polish pediatrician and child psychologist, Dr. Janusz Korczak. He ran a Jewish orphanage. The children like other Polish Jews were forced into the Warsaw Ghetto. After relocation to the Warsaw Ghetto he went with to continue caring for them. As a Christian he was not required by the NAZIs to do so. When the children were tranported to Treblinka in 1943 to be gassed Dr. Korczak insisted on accompaning with them although because he was not Jewish, again he was not required to do so. He died with the children in the gas chambers. We have an image from the film showing one of the older boys of the orphanage. He is an adolescent about 15 years old who falls in love with a non-Jewish girl and whom Dr. Korczak consoles by praising his incipient manhood. The costuming in the film is very accurate. The adolescent is wearing a white shirt, dark short pants, and dark colored (probably brown) long stockings. Although the photo is rather dark, you can see the clasp of his stocking supporter at the hem of his shorts. He may be wearing a bodice or Leibchen under his shirt.
This is a Czech movie "Král sokolu" (Thomas the Falconer), released in 2000. It
takes place in what is now Czechoslovakia (one might guess Bohemia) during the Middle Ages. Orphan Thomas is able to understand the language of animals. Arriving a castle as a petitioner, this enables him to help the falconer who lost his job, and of course to save a beautiful princess, his first love. I have not seen the film, but an Austrain reader speaks very highly of it.
Justin Henry plays a 7-year old boy caught in a bitter custody battle between his work-acholic father and estranged mother. Quite a well acted movie which won an Oscar for best picture. He wears bangs. His personality comes out nicely, including little temper tantrums.
This contemporary film about an orphaned Dutch boy and his dog in the 1920s based on a book by one Chris van Abkoude, who also wrote Pietje Bell, the book every Dutch boy grew up with, that is before they all stopped reading and started playing computer games. The film was marketed in America under the English-language title Little Crum.
A Conan-type scifi movie. The cast includes a boy with the heros. The costuming has no real historic value. The boy involved has a Prince-valiant style hair cut.
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