Super detective Kalle Blomkvist: a small hero with great abilities

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

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 loves to read detective novels and watch films about the adventures of legendary detectives so much! But in the small Swedish town where the protagonist lives, nothing like this happens. Therefore, little Kalle with his friends spends time inventing funny games full of riddles. But one day everything changed, and the boy's talent came in handy.

Creating a detective trilogy

The world-famous children's writer A. Lindgren - the creator of such fairy-tale characters as Carlson, Pippi Longstocking and Mio - turned to the detective genre in her trilogy about the little detective. So, in 1946, the first book from the series "The Adventures of Kalle Blumqvist" was published. The story and its main character immediately fell in love with the readers, and they were looking forward to continuing the story. The writer received the first prize for this work.literary competition.

In 1951, the continuation of the adventures of little Kalle comes out. The completion of the trilogy is published in 1953. Astrid Lindgren later said that when she created the story of the adventures of a little detective, she wanted to distract the children's audience from thrillers that promote violence.

Prodigy Detective

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

The usual game of finding and examining evidence in the disclosure of fictional incidents one day turns into a real crime investigation. Throughout the actions described in three books, Kalle Blomkvist, 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 investigate murders, kidnappings and robberies.

Most of the described stories in the trilogy follow the general principle of the detective genre. Kalle Blomkvist is a detective whose close attention does not escape suspicious personalities, motive, details or clues missed by the police. He is willing to go ahead to find out as much as possible about the person or motive for solving the crime. This is not always safe, so it adds intrigue and keeps you on your toes.

Characteristics

The beautiful features of the trilogyare not only sparkling humor that accompanies the reader throughout the story, but also a colorful description of the scene. Kalle Blomqvist 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 mentally visit the Swedish suburbs. Here you can see small neat red houses with a white border and wide open large windows decorated with snow-white curtains, an old abandoned castle on a hilltop and flowering chestnut trees. Everything is very peaceful and calm, which is a wonderful contrasting background for the investigation of crimes.

Screening

The little detective Kalle Blomqvist is well known to our viewers thanks to the film "The Adventures of Kalle the Detective", filmed in 1976 at the Lithuanian Film Studio, directed by Arunas Žebryūnas.

Although the action of the film takes place in a big city, the viewer meets the favorite book character for the usual occupation. As described in the story, he and his friends are confronting another company of guys. And even though this is just a game, it has a completely historical and serious name - “the war of the Scarlet and White Roses”. As befits rival knightly orders, their members speak a secret language and hide treasures from each other by solving many mysteries and overcoming many difficulties, including traps, captivity and clever traps.

Carefree games come to an end when Einar, the uncle of Eva-Lotta, appears in the city. Attentive CalleBlomkvist draws attention to the suspicious behavior of the visitor, besides, it turns out that unknown strange people are hunting for him. At the same time, the newspapers are trumpeting the robbery of a banker, the police are investigating, but so far to no avail. All this cannot be a coincidence, and Kale begins an investigation. His friends help him, and later the team of rivals in the game confrontation "Scarlet Rose".

Interesting facts

Like any other famous work, the book and screen stories about Kalle Blomkvist have some interesting facts:

- In the English version of Astrid Lindgren's book trilogy, the little detective is named Bill Bergson.

- In the Soviet film, the protagonist's age is almost half that in the book.

- The Soviet Union was the second country after Sweden in terms of 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 Calle the Detective" is a vivid confirmation of this.