Underplayed Gems

Neue Geschichten vom Pumuckl (2023)

Neue Geschichten vom Pumuckl poster
Directed by
Marcus H. Rosenmüller
Genre
family television series
Country
Germany
Length
2 seasons, 26 episodes
Rated
0
Rating
9.1 of 10 from 13 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
The 3D catalogue: film cases on wooden shelves, with the cat sitting at the counter next to its greeting.

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this series is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

A carpenter named Florian Eder inherits his uncle's old workshop and discovers a mischievous little leprechaun named Pumuckl living there. The two form a friendship as the leprechaun causes funny problems around the shop and in their daily lives.

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What happens

Neue Geschichten vom Pumuckl (in English: New Stories from Pumuckl) is a German family television series based on the Meister Eder und sein Pumuckl series created by Ellis Kaut. Under the direction of Marcus H. Rosenmüller, a first season containing 13 episodes was created which was filmed in Munich and the surrounding area in the summer of 2022 and was released on RTL+ on December 11, 2023. The premiere was at the end of June 2023 as part of the Munich Film Festival, where the production was awarded the Audience Award of the Kinderfilmfest. From October 26, 2023, the first three episodes were shown in selected cinemas for a short time. On December 25 and 26, 2023, both RTL and ORF 1 showed all episodes on linear television. The story takes place thirty years after the original series by Ulrich König and ignores the content of its largely unpopular successors Pumuckls Abenteuer (1999) and Pumuckl und sein Zirkusabenteuer (2003). Florian Brückner plays carpenter Florian Eder, the nephew of master carpenter Franz Eder, played by Gustl Bayrhammer, who takes over his uncle's abandoned carpentry shop 30 years after his uncle's death and meets the Leprechaun Pumuckl there. In the new series, Pumuckl is voiced by cabaret artist Maxi Schafroth. Using artificial intelligence, Schafroth's sound recordings are converted into the voice of the original speaker Hans Clarin, who died in 2005. The original voice of Pumuckl is thus synthetically recreated using modern audio deepfake technology. Two voice versions of the series were released in parallel on RTL+. The first version uses Hans Clarin's technically reconstructed voice, while the other version contains Schafroth's unedited recordings. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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