Fat Tilla

Movie
Original title	Fat Tilla
Country of production	GDR
original language	German
Publishing year	1982
length	77 minutes
Age rating	FSK 6
Rod
Director	Werner Bergmann
script	Werner Bergmann Scenario: Rosel Klein Dramaturgy: Andreas Scheinert
production	DEFA , KAG “Johannisthal” Production management: Dorothea Hildebrandt
music	Kiril Cibulka
camera	Werner Bergmann , Ingo Baar
cut	Karin Kusche
occupation
Carmen Sarge : Tilla Jana Mattukat : Anne Matthias Manz : Knutschi Maurice Woynowski : Felix Carmen-Maja Antoni : Anne's mother Günter Junghans : Anne's father Carl Heinz Choynski : Tilla's father Peter Bause : Teacher Eckart Dorothea Mommsen : Mrs. Schimmelpfennig Joachim Schönitz : break teacher

The thick Tilla is the title of 1981 by the DEFA produced children's film , the 1982 in the cinemas of the Democratic German Republic (GDR) and the eighth International Children's Film Festival Lucas in Frankfurt listed and two years later the East German television and in the ZDF broadcast has been. The film was based on the children's book of the same name by Rosel Klein , which was first published in 1981.

action

Anne, a petite and shy girl, is entering the fifth grade as a new student, in which the overweight Tilla appears as the leader and top of the class. Tilla, who grows up without her mother and is harassed by her two older brothers at home, immediately rejects the new student for no specific reason and subsequently harasses her. So she beats Anne, damages her bike and incites the other students against Anne.

While Tilla is especially by her best friend Knutschi, Anne is only supported by her classmate Felix. Anne, who likes to paint, withdraws into the dream world of her pictures and hides her problems with Tilla from her parents. After Anne is pursued by Tilla, they both find themselves in a barn in a helpless position from which they cannot free themselves. In this situation, they begin to talk to each other, and the previously existing mutual aversion eventually turns into a respectful relationship with one another.

criticism

“A cheerful, pensive story about a girl who, used to setting the tone in her school class, feels challenged by a new, delicate and clever classmate. Children's film by the well-known DEFA cameraman Werner Bergmann, who pleads for tolerance and friendliness. "

- Lexicon of international film

Web links

• The thick Tilla in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Fat Tilla at the DEFA Foundation

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Fat Tilla. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .