King's Children (2003)

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Movie
Original title Royal children
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2003
length 87 minutes
Age rating FSK without age restriction
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Director Isabel Kleefeld
script Beate Langmaack
production Sabine Timmermann
music Jens Langbein ,
Robert Schulte-Hemming
camera Rainer Klausmann
cut Andrea Mertens
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The youth film Königskinder is a German film drama from 2003 .

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The young people Merle and Abel are lovers. You live in a small village in northern Germany . Abel dreams of becoming a stuntman in Hollywood, while Merle is a good student. She is about to graduate from high school and would like to study later. Abel's father is a lock keeper. He doesn't believe in his son's plans. According to his wishes, he should also become the lock keeper. Only Abel's mother has a little understanding for the youngster. Merle lives alone with her father.

After a party, Merle vomits. A few weeks later, she discovered that she was seventeen weeks pregnant . So it's already too late to have an abortion. The two teenagers decide to keep the pregnancy a secret. Abel tells his parents that he wants to attend a stuntman course in Hamburg. There he could get a scholarship to a stuntman school in Los Angeles. Merle, on the other hand, claims to be attending a computer course in Hamburg.

The young people arrive in Hamburg with some money from their parents. There is just enough money for cheap accommodation. Merle hides in the hotel room, while Abel makes some money doing odd jobs. Time goes by and Merle's pregnancy becomes more and more visible. After a hotel guest has immorally approached Merle, they change accommodation again.

Since Abel is sometimes still very childlike, he is overwhelmed with the upcoming birth . Merle doesn't want to know anything about a birth in the hospital. So Abel gets his friend Oliver to help. This one is a medic. Oliver gives birth to the child while Abel has to wait outside.

After giving birth, Merle sees only one way out - the baby hatch . Abel takes the child there. In the baby flap is a piece of paper on which he makes a handprint of the baby. Then he puts the baby in and walks away. After the door is closed, an alarm is immediately triggered and the baby is taken care of.

Back at home in their village, life seems to go on normally at first. But Merle is becoming more and more closed. Abel goes back to Hamburg alone to the baby hatch and wants to bring the child back. After he phoned Merle from there, they bring the baby to Merle.

Abel wants to take an apprenticeship in the village and give up his dream of being a stuntman. Merle then silently hands him a present and leaves before he has even opened it. It's a map of Los Angeles. The next day, Abel secretly leaves his parents' house and sets off for America.

A couple of years later. Merle has settled in with her toddler in the village. The boy's grandfather, the lock keeper, gives him a card from his father. But the child lets go of the card and it falls into the water. Nobody read what Abel wrote. But Merle just thinks he'll write again at some point.

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