Rocca changes the world

Movie
Original title	Rocca changes the world
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	2019
length	101 minutes
Age rating	FSK 0
Rod
Director	Katja Benrath
script	Hilly Martinek
production	Tobias Rosen , Steffi Ackermann , Willi Geike
music	Annette Focks
camera	Torsten Breuer
cut	Jan Ruschke
occupation
	Luna Marie Maxeiner : Rocca; Marta Laubinger : Philippa; Barbara Sukowa : Grandmother Doro; Mina Tander : teacher Ms. Behrend; Claire Wegener : Amely; Fahri Yardım : Casper; Volker Bruch : Father; Detlev Buck : Taxi driver; Cordula Stratmann : Youth Office Employee Ms. Hartholz; Natalya Bogdanis : Andrea; Ivan Doan : Dimitrij; Michael Maertens : Director Willy Klein;

Rocca changes the world is a film by Katja Benrath . The film tells a modern Pippi Longstocking story about a brave girl.

action

The eleven-year-old Ria Othilie Clementine Cäsar Alva Kurz (Rocca for short) lives with her grandmother in Hamburg. Her mother died giving birth and her father works as an astronaut on the ISS . After the grandma also has to go to the hospital, the clever and courageous girl finds her way through on her own, which provokes all kinds of resistance from the authorities and their teachers. And there is also a lot going on at school. Rocca has to fight and prove to everyone that even a child has the power to change the world.

production

The main actress Luna Marie Maxeiner at the presentation of the German Film Prize 2019

It is in Rocca changed the world for a production of Relevant Film and Warner Bros. Germany. It is the debut feature film by Katja Benrath (director) and Tobias Rosen (producer). Hilly Martinek wrote the script . At the 2017 award ceremony , Benrath and Rosen were awarded the Student Oscar and nominated for the Oscar in the Best Short Film category for their graduation film Watu Wote - All of us .

The Filmförderungsanstalt granted production funding of 417,502 euros, and the Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein film subsidy granted 550,000 euros. Well received Rocca changed the world a production funding from the German Federal Film Fund .

Child actress Luna Marie Maxeiner played the title role of Rocca.

The shooting took place in summer 2018 in Lokstedt, Blankenese, on Jungfernstieg and at the Friedrich-Ebert-Gymnasium in Hamburg. In August 2018, the film was shot in front of the Higher Regional Court and the remand prison on Holstenglacis. Torsten Breuer acted as cameraman .

The film was released in German cinemas on March 14, 2019. The film premiered on March 3, 2019 in the Astor Film Lounge in Hamburg's Hafencity. At the end of August and beginning of September 2019, it was presented at the Festival of German Films , where it was shown as part of the Children's Film Festival. At the beginning of November 2019 it was shown at the Minsk International Film Festival “Listapad” in the children's and youth film section.

reception

Reviews and grossing results

The film was given the rating of particularly valuable by the German film and media rating . The reason stated: “ Rocca changes the world offers children a protagonist who is as fun-loving as it is intelligent and, above all, self-confident. A girl who shows that many problems can be solved if they are only tackled with sufficient determination. 'Think outside the box' then also comes up in the film discussion as a possible motto for the film. "

The film recorded 246,238 visitors in Germany.