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GUMMI-TARZAN (Original title)RUBBER TARZAN (Alternative title)
Date: 1981 (Release)

Country: Denmark

Director: Søren Kragh-Jacobsen

Synopsis: Ivan suffers ridicule at home and at school as he is a poor scholar and athlete. His father holds up the figure of Tarzan for the boy to emulate. A crane operator befriends Ivan and teaches him that everyone is good at something, they have only to find out what it is.

Genre:
Drama
Credits (7)
Production Company: Metronome Productions, Production Company: Det Danske Filminstitut, Script: Søren Kragh-Jacobsen, Script: Hans Hansen, Photography: Dan Laustsen, Editor: Anders Refn
Cast (4)
Alex Svanbjerg, Otto Bandenburg, Peter Schröder, Susanne Heinrich
Articles held in BFI Reuben Library (5)
In: Kosmorama n220 Winter 1997  Pages: 190-207
Title: And the Winner Is...Author: SCHEPELERN, Peter Article type: ArticleLanguage: Danish
Description: On Danish filmmaking in the period 1960-1969 with emphasis, amongst others, on GUMMI TARZAN.

In: Chaplin n183 December 1982  Pages: 280-281
Title: [Chaplin - n183 December 1982: no known title]Language: Swedish

In: Kosmorama n155/156 December 1981  Pages: 216-217
Title: [Kosmorama - n155/156 December 1981: no known title]Language: Danish

In: Variety 21 Oct 1981  Page: 27
Title: [Variety - 21 Oct 1981: no known title]Language: English

In: Film og Kino n1 1965  Page: 31
Title: [Film og Kino - n1 1965: no known title]Language: Norwegian