THE FAMOUS FIVE

OT: Fünf Freunde | Feature Film | 2012

The world´s most famous Five are brought to the big screen!

The FAMOUS FIVE, George, Julian, Dick, Anne and their dog Timmy spend their first holidays together and plunge headlong into an exciting adventure when they discover a dangerous plot while exploring an ancient smuggler´s cave: George’s father Quentin is to be kidnapped!

The professor has set up a secret lab on Kirrin Island, where he is researching a novel source of energy. But it seems someone is after his valuable research results! Neither the police nor George’s mother Fanny believe the kids. When Quentin fails to give the signals from the lighthouse they arranged with him one evening, the five friends take up the trail of the dastardly kidnappers themselves to save Quentin. The clues lead them to two suspicous wildlife photographers and a mysterious tourist, claiming to be a government agent. Finally the Famous Five find a secret tunnel under the sea, uncovering a treacherous conspiracy they can hardly believe …

Award winning feature film (Giffoni Film Festival, ZLIN Film Festival, Chicago Children Film Festival, Toronto Internation Film Festival)!

Facts:

Release Date: January 26, 2012
Distributor: Constantin Film

Crew:

Production: SamFilm
Producers: Ewa Karlström and Andreas Ulmke-Smeaton
Director: Mike Marzuk
Screenplay: Sebastian Wehlings, Peer Klehmet; based on the series of books by Enid Blyton
Line Producer: Karlheinz Ganzer
DoP: Bernhard Jasper
Editor:: Tobias Haas
Production Manager: Manfred Döring
Make-Up Artist: Dorothea Goldfuß
Sounddesign: Wavefront Studios
Re-recording mixer: Tschangis Chahrokh, Bernd Clauss
Casting: Stefany Pohlmann Casting