Once I Was a Child

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Tamara Trampe
Editing	Editor	Gudrun Steinbrück
Crew	Cinematography	Thomas Plenert
Writing	Writer	Tamara Trampe
Department	Role	Name

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