My life as a zucchini

Movie
German title	My life as a zucchini
Original title	Ma vie de Courgette
Country of production	Switzerland , France
original language	French
Publishing year	2016
length	66 minutes
Age rating	FSK 0 ; JMK 8
Rod
Director	Claude Barras
script	Celine Sciamma
production	Max Karli , ; Pauline Gygax , ; Armelle Glorennec , ; Eric Jacquot , ; Marc Bonny
music	Sophie hungry
camera	David Toutevoix
cut	Valentin Rotelli
synchronization

My life as a zucchini (original title: Ma vie de Courgette ) is a French - Swiss stop-motion film from 2016 . The screenplay by Celine Sciamma is based on the novel Autobiography of a Plum by the French author Gilles Paris .

action

Nine-year-old Icare, who is called “Zucchini” by his mother, lives alone with her. His father had left her before, who was always "very fond of the young chickens". Icare himself sees his father as a superhero and has painted him on his kite. One day the little zucchini was playing with the beer cans of his alcoholic mother, who tragically died in an accident on the stairs to his room.

The sensitive police officer Raymond then takes him to an orphanage, where the other children have experienced something similar. As a souvenir of his parents, he keeps a beer can for his mother and the dragon with his father's picture. When he arrives at the orphanage, Simon urges him to reveal his background. This annoys him repeatedly and always refers to him as a "potato". But when Simon steals his kite, the two begin to fight and are summoned to the headmistress. The two make up and Simon tells him that his parents used drugs. He also knows the fate of the others and zucchini replies that he killed his mother. From then on he has more fun life and Raymond visits him.

A new orphan, Camille, joins the group. Zucchini and Camille get along well from the start, but she keeps silent about the reason for her stay. The curious Simon and Zucchini break into the secretary's office during the night and read their files: she saw her father's murder of her mother and his subsequent suicide .

In winter the orphanage goes on a trip. Simon then steals the courgette beer can on the bus, but Camille takes it away from him and gives it back to the courgette. The two then go sledging together. In the evening there is a small disco in the ski hut and zucchini and Camille dance together. Instead of sleeping, the two sneak away at night and Zucchini gives her a paper boat. On this occasion, her zucchini confesses that he knows her past. Camille opens up to him now. After the death of her parents, she lived with her common aunt. When they return, the children have a snowball fight.

On the way back, zucchini gives Camille a kiss and they hold hands. Zucchini writes Raymond about his experiences. Camille's aunt wants to take Camille back home so that she can get money. But Camille himself does not want this. When Raymond picks up zucchini, the children smuggle Camille into his car. When he discovers them, he calls the orphanage, but takes them to the fair anyway, where Camille wins a teddy bear. Camille's aunt takes away Camille Raymond and threatens to report him.

The children in the home threaten to go on hunger strike and write letters to her. They could bring an MP3 player to her in the paper ship . Camille takes up the insults of her aunt and thus convinces the judge that she can stay in the orphanage. Raymond talks to the judge and wants to take Camille and Zucchini in, which Simon overhears. He is very sad about it because he wants everyone to stay together. But he realizes that it is better for them both if they are adopted.

Finally, Raymond picks them up and takes them home. At the sight of her new room, Camille bursts into tears. Zucchini continues to write to Simon, who had never received any mail before. The photo of his orphanage friends is now glued to Zucchini's kite.

synchronization

The German dubbing took place at Splendid Synchron GmbH in Berlin . Klaus Bickert wrote the dialogue book, Charles Rettinghaus directed the dialogue.

role	French speaker	German speaker
Icare "zucchini"	Gaspard Schlatter	Linus Püttmann
Camille	Sixtine Murat	Louisa Fuchs
Simon	Paulin Jaccoud	Felix Lange
Raymond	Michel Vuillermoz	Helmut Gauss
Ahmed	Raul Ribera	Noah Liebscher
Alice	Estelle Hennard	Victoria Waldau
Jujube	Elliot Sanchez	Moritz Müller
Béatrice "Béa"	Lou Wick	Sarah Josse
Aunt Ida	Brigitte Rosset	Alexandra Wilcke
Madame Papineau	Monica Budde	Arianne Borbach
Monsieur Pau (French) / Paul (German)	Adrien Barazzone	Peter Sura
Rosy	Véronique Montel	Marie Bierstedt
Zucchini's mother	Natacha Koutchoumov	Denise Gorzelanny
Judge	Jean-Claude Issenmann	Axel Lutter

background

The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on May 15, 2016; in Germany the film opened in cinemas on February 16, 2017.

The soundtrack of the film comes from Sophie Hunger and also contains the two original songs Eisbär von Grauzone and Le vent nous portera by Noir Désir , embedded in corresponding scenes .