Anna annA

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Movie
Original title Anna annA
Country of production Germany ,
Switzerland ,
Luxembourg
original language German
Publishing year 1993
length 76 minutes
Age rating FSK o.A.
Rod
Director Greti Kläy
Jürgen Brauer
script Jürgen Brauer
Greti Kläy
Lukas Hartmann
production DEFA , Potsdam-Babelsberg
Fama-Film, Bern
Rhewes Filmproduktion, Cologne
Samsa Film, Bertrange
music Niki Reiser
Oliver Truan
David Klein
camera Jürgen Brauer
cut Rainer Maria Trinkler
occupation

Anna annA is a children's film by Greti Kläy and Jürgen Brauer from 1993. The film, a German-Swiss-Luxembourg co-production, is based on the children's book of the same name by Lukas Hartmann , who was also involved in the script.

action

Anna is a forgetful student. Because she has once again forgotten her German book, she receives a reprimand from her teacher. Only her toy family Gygax uses the book as a tent in her children's room. Since the Gygax, who come to life in Anna's imagination, will also need the book as accommodation in the future, Anna secretly copies an entire book on the school's new large-scale copier - and the talking copier "Copy" actually manages to create a completely identical copy of the textbook except that the copy is missing the ink stain of the original. When the Gygax family needs two more copies of the book in Anna's continuation of the story in order to save their head of the family from a common ruler, Anna secretly sneaks up to the copier at school, who greets them. When the caretaker comes to the copy room, Anna quickly climbs into the copier, which now creates a completely identical copy of Anna: unlike the original, annA just has no tooth seals.

Anna and annA try to keep their duplication a secret. Above all, the mother should not find out anything, especially since she has a new friend, whom Anna rejects, but who likes Anna. AnnA also welcomes her classmate Adrian, whom Anna always ignores. Both girls decide to take turns in everything: Anna sleeps the first night in the attic and has the next day free. Anna, on the other hand, sleeps in her nursery and goes to school the next day, where, as usual, she ignores the now somewhat confused Adrian. The next day the girls do it the other way around. AnnA, who is a bad math student, enrags her teacher when she cheekily answers his questions. Since she receives two rebukes from him, she pretends to faint so that she can finally leave math class. Meanwhile Anna has gone to the zoo, as Anna had done the day before. When annA is supposed to spend another night in the attic, according to the rule, she refuses and prefers to run away.

Meanwhile, Anna is having a clarifying conversation with her mother, who senses that her daughter behaves in completely opposite ways from time to time. She says that Anna can be happy not to have a sister, as she would only mess up her things. She herself fled to a little hiding place with her grandfather from her older sister when she was a child. AnnA also fled and built a cave in a wrecked car. However, when a torrential rain falls, AnnA rushes back to the apartment, where Anna is happy to greet her. She has realized that Anna is a good sister and both girls now spend the night in the same bed. The mother finds her there the next morning. After the initial shock, she decides that the family now consists of two sisters. The three of them go into town and meet Anna's entire class. Adrian is also in the group - while the children are still assessing themselves, an identical boy steps up next to him and the children start to laugh.

production

Anna annA was the directorial debut of the Swiss costume designer Greti Kläy, who was 62 years old at the time. She discovered Lukas Hartmann 's children's book Anna annA in Switzerland and secured the rights to the film.

The film was shot from October 10, 1991 to November 29, 1991 in Cologne and Berlin . It premiered on May 13, 1993 in the Metropolis in Cologne and was first shown on television on December 25, 1994 on Das Erste .

criticism

The critics praised the actors of the film, especially the two Anna actresses, who play “their roles with visible joy” and who give the film “a touch of verve and freshness through their cheeky, lively and natural play”. Anna annA is said to be a "funny as well as witty children's film [...] staged with a lot of imagination". For Cinema the film was "[s] very real fun".

However, the film lacks a dramatic escalation, "it lacks the cosmopolitanism, the significant story that the cinema needs as a public work of art." Because of this and because of the "broad narrative style", younger viewers' interest in the outcome of the Happening. Frank-Burkhard Habel wrote that the film was "quite lengthy despite the imaginative elements [...]."

literature

  • Anna annA . In: F.-B. Habel: The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , pp. 34-35.
  • Anna annA . In: Ingelore König, Dieter Wiedemann, Lothar Wolf (eds.): Between Marx and Muck. DEFA films for children . Henschel, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-89487-234-9 , pp. 421-423.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Hans-Jörg Rother in: Neue Zeit , Berlin, May 15, 1993.
  2. ↑ a b Anna annA . In: Ingelore König, Dieter Wiedemann, Lothar Wolf (eds.): Between Marx and Muck. DEFA films for children . Henschel, Berlin 1996, p. 422.
  3. ↑ Reinhard Kleber: Kinder-Jugend-Film-Korrespondenz , Ed. 54, No. 2, 1993.
  4. ↑ See Anna annA. In: Cinema , Hubert Burda Media , accessed on August 7, 2018.
  5. ↑ Anna annA . In: F.-B. Habel: The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, p. 35.