This is "Ein Herz geht auf Reisen" or "A Heart Goes on a Journey", a West German 100-minute movie from the year 1968, so not long anymore until this one will have its 50th anniversary. It has color and sound and stars Heintje, a Dutch teenager who was really popular around that time here in Germany and the fact that this film won a Golden Screen, an award for the films that lured most people to theaters is evidence of that. But it has little to do with quality. The director here is Werner Jacobs, also pretty popular back then. Heintje also appeared in some of the Lümmel films, comedies about school pranks from back in the day (next to Hansi Kraus and Peter Alexander). This movie here is the first from a trilogy of movies starring Heintje that came out within the short span of only two years. So it's accurate to say that his popularity had faded as quickly as it appeared. As for this movie here, it is entirely forgettable, sometimes even pretty bad. Heintje is not the greatest actor and same can be said about most of his co-stars here. Still you need to say in favor of the cast that the screenplay was pretty bad. Schmaltzy romance, overrated music (pathetic how everybody is drooling over his voice), one-dimensional characters, empty tear-jerking and a plot and story that were just never really interesting. Winnetou fans may be amused to see Ralf Wolter (still alive in 2016 today) as the main antagonist in here. But he is not memorable either. This is a film that should not be seen and should absolutely not get two sequels. I give it a thumbs-down. Very little talent involved here.
