Peppermint Peace
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| Original title | Peppermint Peace |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1983 |
| length | 112 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Marianne Rosenbaum |
| script | Marianne Rosenbaum |
| production | Nourfilm Filmproduktion GmbH |
| music | Konstantin Wecker |
| camera | Alfred Tichawsky |
| cut | Gérard Samaan |
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Peppermint Frieden is a German drama film directed by Marianne Rosenbaum from 1983 . The film received the special prize of the Max Ophüls Festival in 1984 .
The film depicts everyday life after the war from a child's perspective in a small German village between 1943 and 1950. Peace comes in the form of an American soldier who brings chewing gum for the children.
action
Marianne, born in 1940, shaken by hunger and nights of bombing, fled to the Bavarian Forest with her mother and grandmother . Her father, a German Wehrmacht soldier , is released from captivity and starts working again as a teacher. Marianne's parents and grandmother were not convinced of National Socialism, but had ultimately integrated themselves into this society. They try to shield Marianne from the horrors of the war and its long-term consequences, but Marianne suspects what was going on in the nearby concentration camp and on her father's war front.
An American soldier hands out peppermint-flavored chewing gum and befriends the children who baptize him "Mister Peace". For the children, peace tastes like peppermint. Much is new, like the strange music from the next room, where Mister Frieden and his girlfriend Nilla laugh and sigh. Their relationship is received with skepticism by the strictly Catholic village population, and Mister Frieden is later arrested by the American military police for some time.
But with the Korean War and the Cold War , new enemy lines are emerging. The adults talk about the threat, opinions differing between the carpenter with communist convictions and the local Catholic Church. Especially the atom bomb and the fear of an invasion of the Soviet Union awaken nightmares that weigh on the traumatized Marianne. Marianne and many of her peers are still shaped by memories of the Second World War. In the end, Mister Frieden and Nilla also leave the village to fight for the American army in the Korean War.
background
The world premiere took place in Cannes in 1983, in 1983 the film received the German Critics' Prize, in 1984 the Max Ophüls Prize, and in 1983 it was named “Film of the Month September” by the Evangelical Film Work jury.
Marianne Rosenbaum's husband Gérard Semaan was responsible for editing and performing as an actor.
Reviews
“In her somewhat mannered but detailed debut, Marianne Rosenbaum shows Nazi guilt and post-war happiness through children's eyes.
Clever and poetic, with small weaknesses. "
Web links
- Peppermint Peace in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- cinema.de: Peppermint Peace (1983)
- Bettina Henzler: Asking, Playing and Dreaming: The Child as a Mediator of History , published on January 18, 2018.