Directed by:
Gernot RollScreenplay:
Ulrich LimmerComposer:
Nicola PiovaniCast:
Armin Rohde, Rufus Beck, Katharina Thalbach, Manuel Steitz, Piet Klocke, Barbara Schöneberger, Christiane Hörbiger, Martin Stührk, Armin MaiwaldPlots(1)
Long, long ago in a small town in southern Germany. Kasperl lives with his grandmother and his friend, Seppel. Life would be so wonderful if that mean robber Hotzenplotz hadn't stolen grandmother's new coffee mill – and if Constable Dimpfelmoser wasn't such a nincompoop. For this reason, Kasperl and Seppel find themselves obliged to take the matter in hand. A trick enables them to track down the peregrinating villain to his hideout. But Hotzenplotz overpowers them. The crook can't seem to tell Kasperl from Seppel, but this doesn't help them one bit right now. The duo are well and truly Hotzenplotz' prisoners – and he has got big plans for Seppel, who is really Kasperl. For two sacks of "nose-comfort" snuff, he sells his prisoner to the big, bad, potato-addicted magician, Petrosilius Zwackelmann, who is in desperate need of a conscientious but simple-minded slave to peel his potatoes.
Kasperl soon realises that he isn't the only prisoner in Zwackelmann's castle. In the cellar he comes across a slimy toad bemoaning its fate. In reality the toad is none other than the lovely fairy Amaryllis, whom Zwackelmann has cursed. Kasperl and the fairy succeed in outwitting Zwackelmann and capturing Hotzenplotz. But the thief manages to escape, and this soon brings certified clairvoyant Portiunkula Schlotterbeck and her secret admirer Dimpfelmoser on the scene...
(Berlinale)
Cast
Armin Rohde
West Germany
Best movies:
Run Lola Run (1998)
Life Is All You Get (1997)
Barefoot (2005)
Rufus Beck
West Germany
Best movies:
The Most Desired Man (1994)
Sapphire Blue (2014)
Jasper: Journey to the End of the World (2008)
Katharina Thalbach
East Germany
Best movies:
Head Full of Honey (2014)
The Tin Drum (1979)
Sophie's Choice (1982)
Manuel Steitz
Germany
Best movies:
The Crocodiles (2009)
Vorstadtkrokodile 2 (2010)
Polizeiruf 110 (1971) (series)
Piet Klocke
West Germany
Best movies:
The Flying Classroom (2003)
The Wild Chicks (2006)
Der Räuber Hotzenplotz (2006)
Barbara Schöneberger
West Germany
Best movies:
Rabbit Without Ears (2007)
The Flight Before Christmas (2008)
Men in the City 2 (2011)
Christiane Hörbiger
Austria
Best movies:
Tafelspitz (1994)
Stiller Abschied (2013) (TV movie)
Secret Hope (2015) (TV movie)
Martin Stührk
West Germany
Best movies:
Not All Were Murderers (2006) (TV movie)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Schlafsack für zwei (2005) (TV movie)
Armin Maiwald
German Empire
Best movies:
Der Räuber Hotzenplotz (2006)
Rudy: The Return of the Racing Pig (2007)