Director
Caroline Link
Composer
Niki Reiser
Cast
Elea Geissler, Max Felder, Juliane Köhler
Edition 1999
107'
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1999
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Drama, Comedy, Family
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Dialogue:
German
Annaluise (10) and Anton (11) are best friends although they are from totally opposite backgrounds. Anton, very poor with a sick mother, works evenings in an ice-cream parlour to support her and falls asleep in school. Annaluise wants to help him but although her parents are extremely rich they give her little time or money. Fortunately she has enough imagination to earn some money at night for Anton. In the new film adaptation of Erich Kästner’s children’s book, Annaluise isn’t selling matches, but is singing instead. She learned the songs from Laurence, the French au pair, whom the eternally absent parents considered the ideal chaperone for Annaluise. However, it turns out that Laurence’s boyfriend, Carlos, is not altogether harmless. Fortunately, Anton is there when the situation gets critical…
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Credits
Directors
Caroline Link
Composers
Niki Reiser
Cast
Elea Geissler, Max Felder, Juliane Köhler
Scenario
Caroline Link
Director of Photography
Torsten Breuer
Editors
Patricia Rommel
Producers
Christoph Holch, Uschi Reich, Susanne van Lessen
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Dialogue
German
Countries of production
Germany
Screenplay based on
"Pünktchen und Anton" (Erich Kästner)
Year
1999
Filmography
Caroline Link
Glück zum Anfassen (1988), Bunte Blumen (short, 1988), Sommertage (1990), Kalle der Träumer (Tv Movie, 1992), Spurlos (TV-series, 1993), Beyond Silence (1996), Annaluise & Anton (1999), Nowhere in Africa (2001), A Year Ago in Winter (2008), Exit Marrakeh (2013), All About Me (2018)