Once I Was a Child
The interviews conducted by Tamara Trampe in a Pankow kindergarten testify to a rare attempt to enter the world of the young interviewees completely, to give their stories a space where reality and fantasy, worries and wishes can mix freely. A space that’s not always provided in the daily life of the kindergarten, as the film casually suggests even after it was toned down by the DEFA censors: toilets without doors, ghastly birthday parties and friendly but unmistakable reprimands when the children let too much dialect slip into the grammar exercise or when their pictures of soldiers are not realistic enough.
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Tamara Trampe Director · Thomas Plenert Cinematographer Gudrun Steinbrück Editor
First release March 20, 1987 · Produced in XG · Original title Ich war einmal ein Kind
Production
DEFA-Studio für Dokumentarfilme
Production
XG
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Original title
Ich war einmal ein Kind
Original language
German
Spoken on screen
German
Release dates
Germany · March 20, 1987
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No release date listed for United States.
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