Summer with the Ghosts
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| Directed by | Bernd Neuburger |
| Produced by |
Rock Demers Chantal Lafleur |
| Written by | Nadja Seelich |
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Nikola Culka Sarah-Jeanne Labrosse |
| Music by | Zdenek Merta |
| Cinematography | Thomas Vámos |
| Edited by | Matthieu Roy-Décarie |
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Extra Film
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| Distributed by | Delphis Films |
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85 minutes |
| Country | Canada Austria |
| Language | English |
Summer with the Ghosts is a 2004 film by La Fète and Sterling Entertainment, and is part of the Tales for All (Contes Pour Tous) series of family movies. It is a fantasy/adventure/comedy, focusing on the holiday of a ten-year-old girl called Caroline, who has come to attend her father's film-making of a perimedieval romance.
Upon arriving in Austria, Caroline meets her father and his crew, which include the ubiquitous director's assistant Marcus, the irascible sound manager Steven, and the aged, gentle special effects manager Otto. These, among others, have come to Austria to make the film against the backdrop of a long-historied castle.
While exploring this castle, Caroline meets and befriends a boy called Iakob and his dog Hannibal; who in turn introduce her to the castle's community of ghosts. These ghosts are variously the animated memories of the castle's deceased inhabitants or spirits of the nearby forest. All are longtime friends of Iakob.
Shortly after Caroline's introduction to the Ghosts, Otto's equipment begins to malfunction during the filming of crucial scenes. Iakob suspects the Ghosts; he and Caroline investigate, accompanied by Otto. At a lake, they learn that the Nuns (the ghosts of heiresses consigned to the convent) have sabotaged Otto's tools so as to avoid being disturbed by them. To prevent such trouble without mitigating the film-making, Caroline and Iakob arrange for the relocation of the set to another courtyard, which is larger and better situated.
Later, more trouble arises. A rooster living in the castle is in the habit of crowing every day at a particular hour; the Nuns depend on this for knowledge of when to wake and when to sleep. Without the rooster's crow, the Nuns would wake at the wrong hour and be disintegrated by the sunlight. Because the crowing interferes with the film's sound effects, sound manager Steven attempts to remove or kill the rooster; whereupon Caroline and Iakob endeavour to keep the rooster safe without allowing him to cause trouble.
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