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Little Fruit from the Equator

1998 75 min German
Wubly rating 6.4 IMDb rating 6.3

The story is an allegory, combining narrative aspects of comedy films, documentary films, fairy tales, and road movies. The story starts with a dying old woman, who is calling for her distant son. Her calls take solid form in the shape of a giant breadfruit, which falls from the sky right in front of her son's residence. Realizing that this is a message from his mother, the son sets out to find her and takes the fruit with him. His trek across the island involves interactions both with people who are either amused or disturbed by his abnormal fruit, and with those to whom the fruit seems to an answer to their "fantasies", "desires and dark longings".

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Herbert Brödl Director

First release November 6, 1998 · Produced in Austria, Germany, São Tomé & Príncipe · Languages German, Portuguese

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3sat

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Baumhaus Film Brödl

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Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR)

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Bayerischer Rundfunk

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Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF)

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Austria · Germany · São Tomé & Príncipe

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Original title

Früchtchen - Am Äquator ist alles möglich

Original language

German

Spoken on screen

German · Portuguese

Release dates

Germany · November 6, 1998

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