I saw this film on a rainy Sunday afternoon in a little Berlin cinema - half filled with very small children, and their mothers. After nearly an hour the lobby of this theater was filled with crying children - and their desperate mothers vainly trying to console them.
The remaining audience, about a dozen young adults (obviously film-students), was staring like hypnotized at the screen.
Unfortunately, German film history is not littered with outstanding productions of animated features. I found out that this film won the German Film Academy Award in 2000. It was up to now the only German animated feature ever. And rightly so!
The remaining audience, about a dozen young adults (obviously film-students), was staring like hypnotized at the screen.
Unfortunately, German film history is not littered with outstanding productions of animated features. I found out that this film won the German Film Academy Award in 2000. It was up to now the only German animated feature ever. And rightly so!