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Once I Was a Child

Plot: 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
Release Date: Friday, March 20 1987
37 years ago
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Portrait of Tamara TrampeTamara Trampe
Tamara Trampe was
44 in Once I Was a Child
as 'Director, Writer'
Fri, Dec 04 1942 –
Thu, Nov 04 2021
Portrait of Gudrun SteinbrückGudrun Steinbrück
Gudrun Steinbrück was
>> in Once I Was a Child
as 'Editor'
Unknown Birthday
Portrait of Thomas PlenertThomas Plenert
Thomas Plenert was
36 in Once I Was a Child
as 'Cinematography'
Thu, Feb 01 1951 –
Sat, Jul 15 2023