Supersyler Calle Bloomquist: a small hero with great abilities

This is a story about a boy who dreams of becoming an outstanding detective. He wants to investigate crimes, like the famous Sherlock Holmes, because the boy likes to read detective novels and watch films about the adventures of the legendary detectives! But in a small Swedish town, where the protagonist of the work lives, nothing like this happens. Therefore, Kalle's kid with his friends spends time, coming up with funny games full of mysteries. But one day everything changed and the boy's talent came in handy.

Creating a Detective Trilogy

World-famous children's writer A. Lindgren - the creator of such fairy-tale characters as Carlson, Pippi Long stocking and Mio - in her trilogy about a little detective addressed to the detective genre. So, in 1946 the first book from the series "The Adventures of Calle Blumquist" was published. The story and its main character immediately fell in love with the readers, and they eagerly awaited the continuation of the story. The writer for this work received the first prize of a literary contest.

In 1951, the continuation of the adventures of the child Kalle comes out. Completion of the trilogy is published in 1953. Later, Astrid Lindgren said that by creating the story of the adventures of a little detective, she wanted to distract the children's audience from thrillers that propagandize violence.

Detective Wunderkind

The protagonist of the work, a boy named Kalle, has a lot of typical skills, characteristic for the characters of the detective genre. He loves puzzles and puzzles, pays attention to minor details that escape the eyes of other people.

The usual game of finding and studying evidence in the disclosure of invented incidents is one day turned into an investigation into this crime. During the actions described in the three books, Calle Blumquist, as well as his faithful friends Anders and Eva-Lotta, help the police in solving crimes. They will have to face not only petty theft, but also help in the investigation of murders, abductions and robberies.

Most of the described stories in the trilogy obey the general principle of the detective genre. Calle Blumquist is a detective, whose suspicious personalities, motive, details or evidence skipped by the police are not escaping from close attention. He is ready to go forward to learn as much as possible about a person or motive for uncovering a crime. This is not always safe, therefore it adds intrigue and keeps you in suspense.

Character traits

The wonderful features of the trilogy are not only the sparkling humor accompanying the reader throughout the narrative, but also a colorful description of the scene. Calle Blumquist and his friends live in a small town built along the river and surrounded by beautiful nature. A vivid description gives the reader the opportunity to visit the Swedish suburbs mentally. Here you can see small, tidy houses of red with a white border and wide open windows decorated with snow-white curtains, an old abandoned castle on top of a hill and flowering chestnut trees. Everything is very peaceful and peaceful, which is a wonderful contrasting background for the investigation of crimes.

Screening

To our viewer, the little detective Kalle Blumkvist is well acquainted with the film "The Adventures of the Kalle Detective", filmed in 1976 by the Lithuanian film studio directed by Arunas Zhebrionas.

Although the action of the film takes place in a big city, the favorite book hero is met by the spectator after a habitual occupation. As described in the story, he and his friends are confronting another company of children. And even if it's just a game, the name is quite historical and serious - "The Wars of the Roses". As well as it is necessary to competing knightly orders, their members speak a secret language, hide treasures from each other, having found out many riddles and having overcome a lot of difficulties, including traps, captivity and ingenious traps.

Carefree games come to an end when Einar appears in the city - Uncle Eva-Lotta. Attentive Kalle Blumkvist pays attention to the suspicious behavior of the stranger, besides it turns out that unknown strangers are hunting him. At the same time, newspapers are trumpeting about banker robbery, the police are investigating, but so far to no avail. All this can not be a coincidence, and Kale begins an investigation. Friends are helping him, and later a team of opponents in the game confrontation "The Scarlet Rose".

Interesting Facts

Like any other famous work, the book and screen stories about Calle Blumquist have several interesting facts:

- In the English version of the trilogy of books by Astrid Lindgren, a little detective is called Bill Bergson.

- In the Soviet film, the age of the main character is almost half that of the book.

- The Soviet Union was the second country after Sweden in the number of adaptations of A. Lindgren's works with the preservation of the original text and events. And, of course, the film "The Adventures of the Kale-detective" is a vivid confirmation of this.