Lepel (film)

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Movie
German title Lepel
Original title Lepel
Country of production Germany , Netherlands , United Kingdom
original language Dutch
Publishing year 2005
length 96 minutes
Age rating FSK without age restriction
Rod
Director Willem van de Sande Bakhuyzen
script Mieke de Jong
production Leontine Petit , Joost de Vries , Oliver Damian , Phil Robertson
music Robert Lockhart
camera Guido van Gennep
cut Wouter Jansen
occupation

Lepel is the title of a children's film from 2005 . Mieke de Jong wrote the script and Willem van de Sande Bakhuyzen directed. The German-British-Dutch joint production was shot in 2004 in the cities of Gera , Weimar and Leipzig . The premiere took place on October 20, 2005.

action

The seven-year-old Lepel (German: Spoon ) lives with his grandmother, the owner of a small haberdashery shop. The grandmother supplies herself with buttons by taking huge quantities of shirts, blouses and jackets into the changing room when she visits department stores and cutting the buttons there. When she visits the department store, Lepel always has to carry the clothes into the changing room, at home his grandmother forces him to sort through the buttons. In order to escape this dreary life, Spoon decides not to go home with his grandmother, but instead to spend the night in the department store. There he discovers that he is not alone. The 13-year-old has lived in the department store for some time. She spends the days sleeping on a shelf behind sweaters and ties, at night she helps herself from the cake cabinet. Only salesman Max knows of their hidden existence. While Pigend prefers the secret existence in the department store to a boring life with annoying parents, Lepel wants nothing more than to finally see his father and mother again, who are circling the world in a free balloon. One day Lepel learns that his parents were killed in a crash. He doesn't want to go back to his bossy grandmother, not even to his math teacher at school. The latter only uses Lepel's arithmetic talent to win a prize in a mental arithmetic competition. That is why Pelp and the salesperson Max set out to find suitable parents for Lepel. Max first tries to recruit various department store customers as a mother, but this fails because of the women’s selfish desires. Max not only discovers his love in the department store owner Broer, but also the right mother for Lepel. As "Team - Broer", Max, Lepel, Pagraph - they realize Broer's dream of taking part in an Africa rally in an off-road vehicle.

criticism

"Wonderful film balancing between surreal fairy tales and existential problems of children, which is also convincing in terms of its acting and design."

- film service

Awards

In 2005, the film won the award of the Central German Broadcasting Council as part of the 14th Children's Film & TV Festival “ Goldener Spatz 2005 ” as the prize of the expert jury for the best screenplay.

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