Jungle child

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Movie
Original title Jungle child
Country of production Germany , Malaysia
original language German
Publishing year 2011
length 131, 158 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 10
Rod
Director Roland Suso Richter
script Richard Reitinger ,
Natalie Scharf
production Jürgen Schuster ,
Matthias Adler ,
Nico Hofmann ,
Natalie Scharf,
Thomas Peter Friedl ,
Wolf Bauer
music Annette Focks
camera Holly Fink
cut Bernd Schlegel
occupation

Dschungelkind is a German feature film that was released on February 17, 2011. It is shown on television in a 30-minute longer version. The film is the screen adaptation of the autobiographical bestseller of the same name by Sabine Kuegler .

action

Klaus Kuegler is a linguist and moves with his wife Doris and their three children to the tropical rainforest of western New Guinea to research the language of a newly discovered indigenous tribe, the Fayu . The eight-year-old daughter Sabine settles in quickly. What the family does not know: They have found themselves in the middle of a tribal war, the struggles of which do not affect them directly, but which they are drawn into more and more often. In the beginning it is not easy for the family to understand the reason for the hostility and they have to recognize that love, hate, life and death in the foreign culture have different values ​​than in their own. This is how a process of rapprochement begins in which both sides have to learn from each other.

When Sabine and her brother find the badly injured Auri one day and the family takes care of him at home, they put everyone in danger, as this act can decide about war and peace between the two tribes. A special bond and deep friendship immediately developed between Sabine and Auri.

When the family travels to Germany after years for a vacation, the sixteen-year-old Sabine is confronted with a completely “strange” world that is no longer hers. Your search for belonging and security ultimately becomes a search for yourself . Only after returning to the jungle does she know where her true home is.

backgrounds

The film was u. a. Filmed in Malaysia , Bad Berleburg and at Wittgenstein Castle in Bad Laasphe .

Sabine Kuegler, the author of the book Dschungelkind , reacted positively to the film adaptation of her bestseller: “I was very touched when I saw the film for the first time.” She was particularly impressed by the performance of the young actress Stella Kunkat : “You plays her role very authentically - I recognized myself very strongly. "

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Age rating for jungle child . Youth Media Commission .
  2. ↑ The theatrical release is on February 17th. In: Siegener Zeitung . Archived from the original on September 9, 2012 ; Retrieved January 13, 2011 .
  3. A little touch of Hollywood. (pdf, 539 kB) (No longer available online.) In: Siegerländer Wochen-Anzeiger (SWA / WWA). swa-wwa.de, formerly in the original ; Retrieved January 13, 2011 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / neu.swa-wwa.de
  4. ^ Gregor Tholl: Growing up between two cultures. In: derWesten.de . July 25, 2014, accessed July 27, 2018 .