Dog Overboard

Country

Czechoslovakia, German Democratic Republic

Copyright

1971

Production year

1971

Runtime

37 min

Category

film

Genre

children

Typology

featuretheatrical distributionmedium

Original title

Dobrodružství na Labi

Czech title

Dobrodružství na Labi

English title

Dog Overboard

Co-production title

Hund über Bord

Synopsis

It's the summer holidays and the German captain of a cargo boat takes his entire family - his wife, his ten-year-old son Klaus and his five-year-old daughter Andrea - on a river cruise to Czechoslovakia. The children have secretly smuggled their fox terrier Jackie on board. The barge sailor Ferdinand is travelling with them. A grumpy man, he is annoyed by the children and their dog. Jackie slips on the wet deck boards and falls into the river Elbe, but is saved by the crew from a Czechoslovak boat travelling in the opposite direction. After a while the children realise that their dog is gone and suspect that Ferdinand has thrown him into the river. They persuade their father to anchor the boat and with their mother's help begin searching for the dog, but to no avail. At night, Klaus hears a dog barking and followed by his adamant sister he takes a dinghy and once again goes ashore to look for Jackie. The children lose their way in the rocks. They meet a group of Czech children playing Indians. Despite the language barrier they eventually reach an agreement and the children bring them dogs from the entire neighbourhood. In the meantime the parents have asked the police for help, and Ferdinand is likewise searching for the escaped children of his own accord. Finally the family is happily re-united. Although Andrea has chosen a replacement dog, she eventually returns it to the Czech children on their way back after the sailors from the Czechoslovak ship deliver Jackie to the family in the town of Hřensko.

Note

The film was distributed to Czech cinemas as part of the series Dog Overboard with the short film Journey into the Age of Oil Lamps (1961; directed byBohumil Vošahlík).

Cast

Hans-Peter Reinecke

Voice by Jiří Němeček
kapitán lodi Ilmenau

Carsten Biedermann

Voice by Vladimír Dlouhý
Klaus

Gerit Klinge

Voice by Inka Šecová
Andrea

Jutta Liebster

Voice by Libuše Švormová
kapitánova žena

Peter Dommisch

Voice by Jan Skopeček
lodník Ferdinand

Eugen Jegorov

Voice by Otto Šimánek
lodník na lodi Beskydy

Tomáš Zemek

Voice by Oldřich Velen
lodník na lodi Beskydy

Radko Choc

Voice by Bohumil Švarc
poručík VB

Vladimír Zátka

náčelník party dětí

Magdalena Kaprová

holka

Commentary

Crew and creators

Director of Photography

Jiří Kolín

Production Manager

Evert Beewen, Zdeněk Stibor

Direction of Czech version

Bohumil Kouba

Music

Music Composed by

Günther Fischer

Production info

Original Title

Dobrodružství na Labi

Czech Title

Dobrodružství na Labi

English Title

Dog Overboard

Co-production Title

Hund über Bord

Category

film

Typology

featuretheatrical distribution

Genre

children

Origin country

Czechoslovakia, German Democratic Republic

Copyright

1971

Production Year

1971

Production specifications

projection approval 27 June 1972

Premiere

premiere 17 May 1973 /suitable for youths/ (kino Tatra /1 týden/, Praha)
premiere 18 May 1973 /suitable for youths/ (celostátní)

Technical info

Duration typology

medium length film

Duration in minutes

37 min

Original length in metres

1 064 meters

Distribution carrier

16mm, 35mm

Aspect ratio

1:1,37

Colour

colour

Sound

sound

Sound system/format

mono

Versions

Czech

Dialogue languages

Czech

Subtitles languages

without subtitles

Opening/End credits languages

Czech