Spuk mit Max und Moritz (1951)

This is a Sound re-issue of the silent 1941 film "Max und Moritz", which still had inter-titles. Those inter-titles were removed and new German narration based on the original book was added along with music. This is about the nasty pranks of the cheeky bullies Max and Moritz in an imaginative puppet cartoon that Wilhelm Busch would have enjoyed. Due to the plasticity of the puppets, this animated film by the Diehl brothers is the most successful attempt to date at animating Busch's picture story (according to the Wilhelm Busch Museum in Hanover). All seven of the pranks detailed in the original book "Max and Moritz: A Story of Seven Boyish Pranks" is detailed here in. The inventive, blackly humorous tale, told entirely in rhymed couplets, was written and illustrated by Wilhelm Busch and published in 1865. This may not sit well with today's "PC" audience.