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!

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