Once I Was a Child

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.

Country:

East Germany,

Germany

Genre:

Documentary

Duration:

17 minutes

Year:

1987

Director:

Tamara Trampe

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Company:

DEFA-Studio für Wochenschau und Dokumentarfilme

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Crew:

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Writer

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