Straight out of Berlin - Film festival
Director: Neele Vollmar
Family Film, Germany, 2014
96 min.
Little Rico, who describes himself as “deeply gifted”, lives in Berlin-Kreuzberg with his mother, who doesn’t have much time for him. His loneliness changes when he meets the gifted Oskar. The friendship is put to a first test when Oskar doesn’t turn up at an agreed meeting. Rico learns that his new friend was kidnapped and manages to free him and expose the perpetrator.
The bestseller adaptation “The Pasta Detectives” is a sensitive and adventurous children’s film with two charismatic actors in the title roles.
Filmmaker Neele Leana Vollmar received a good deal of praise from critics for her bestseller adaptation (the comics that are spliced into the film are also from the book). “Finally, a real children’s film!” read one headline in the FAZ, and epd Film also offered its praise: “There has rarely been so much earnestness combined with quick-witted humour in a children’s film.” “The Pasta Detectives” won numerous best children’s film awards, including at the 2015 German Film Awards and the German Film Critics’ Awards. In 2014, the film received the Youth and Children’s Film Award of the Goethe-Institut at the Schlingel International Film Festival for Children and Young Audiences in Chemnitz.
Watch the trailer of “The Pasta Detectives”
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