Film screening The Legend of Timm Thaler or The Boy who sold his Laughter (Timm Thaler oder Das verkaufte Lachen)

Summer Cinema at the Goethe-Institut

Children's film // 98 minutes // 2017 // no age restriction

No one can resist Timm Thaler's (Arved Friese) laugh. It is so infectious and disarming that the rich Baron Lefuet (Justus von Dohnányi) is desperate to possess it. And so Lefuet proposes an unusual deal to the orphan boy: If Timm sells him his laugh, he will win every future bet. Timm signs the contract. Thanks to his new ability, he can now seemingly fulfill all his wishes, but without his laughter he also becomes increasingly lonely and falls more and more into the clutches of the devilish baron. But Timm's friends Ida (Jule Hermann) and Kreschimir (Charly Hübner) do everything they can to help him get his laughter back. Will they, together with Timm, succeed in outwitting the baron?

Directed by: Andreas Dresen
Screenplay: Alexander Adolph
Producer: Oliver Berben
Music: Johannes Repka
Cinematography: Michael Hammon
Film editing: Jörg Hauschild
Cast: Arved Friese, Justus von Dohnányi, Axel Prahl, Andreas Schmidt, Jule Hermann, Emil von Schönfels, Charly Hübner, Nadja Uhl, Steffi Kühnert, Bjarne Mädel, Fritzi Haberlandt, Harald Schmidt, Reiner Heise, Milan Peschel, Joachim Król, Heinz Rudolf Kunze, Thomas Ohrner

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