Once upon a time, the Mucklas could be found everywhere. But in an increasingly tidy world, the cheerful goblins have a hard time, since they love disorder more than anything. Soon the last tribe will have to leave their home. For generations, the little creatures have made themselves at home unnoticed in Hansson’s old, chaotic grocer’s store. In the wonderful mess, they find everything they need to live, tinker and make mischief. But Hansson’s successor, Karl the exterminator, turns the paradise into a tiled and sterile nightmare. So Svunja, Tjorben and Smartö set off on a dangerous search for the promised land. The great adventure begins.
film giffoni 2023
THE MUCKLES –THE QUEST FOR A NEW HOME
Category: Elements +3
| Original Title | Die Mucklas ... und wie sie zu Pettersson und Findus kamen |
| Category | Out of competition |
| Section | Elements +3 |
| Tipology | Feature Film |
| Duration | 81’ |
| Production Year | 2022 |
| Nationality | Germany, Luxembourg |
| Directed by | Ali Samadi Ahadi, Markus Dietrich |
| Screenplay | Thomas Springer |
| Director of photography | Mathias Neumann |
| Editor | Andreas Menn |
| Production Design | Bertram Strauß |
| Costume Design | Uli Simon |
| Make up | Emilie Franco |
| Main cast |
Uwe Ochsenknecht Christine Urspruch André Jung Stefan Kurt Marianne Sägebrecht Marco Lorenzini music/musica André Dziezuk |
| Produced by | Helmut G. Weber, Talin Özbalik, Thomas Springer |
| Production | Senator Film Produktion, Amour Fou Luxembourg |
Ali Samadi Ahadi
Ali Samadi Ahadi was born in 1972 in Tabriz, Iran. After graduating from high-school in Kassel, Germany, he studied visual communications at the University of Hannover, Germany with a post-grad in Social Sciences and Design for Electronic Media. Today, he is a renowned and successful director of family features and comedies. His critically acclaimed titles include the culture-clash comedy SALAMI ALEIKUM, the turbulent middle-eastern comedy 45 MINUTES TO RAMALLAH in cooperation with ARD Degeto, the spy-comedy DIE MAMBA, as well as the children’s book adaptation PETTERSON & FINDUS – KLEINER QUÄLGEIST, GROSSE FREUNDSCHAFT. For his work on the sequel of the PETTERSON & FINDUS brand, he won the German director’s price METROPOLIS 2017. Besides his work on feature films, Ali Samadi Ahadi has been a successful director of documentaries such as the THE GREEN WAVE (Grimme Prize 2011), which was part of the official selection of the Sundance Film Festival and German Film Prize (2004) winning documentary LOST CHILDREN. It took Ali Samadi Ahadi several years to develop the script for MOONBOUND, which is based on the German children’s book classic “Peterchens Mondfahrt” and shall mark his debut as a writer and a director of an animated feature film.
Markus Dietrich
Markus Dietrich, born in Strausberg in 1979, studied theater in Berlin and Weimar, is a graduate of the Berlinale Talent Campus and the Zurich Masterclass - and one of the most exciting German children's film directors. His cinema debut SPUTNIK was nominated for the German Film Award, his second feature film INVISIBLE SUE, a co-production with Luxembourg, was also shortlisted for the German Film Award.
He also gained experience as a director for the children's series SCHLOSS EINSTEIN, as well as with two fairy tale adaptations for ARD. Recently completed was the feature film THE MUCKLES - THE QUEST FOR A NEW HOME, for which he directed the live-action part of the film. Most recently, he worked on the film WILDHEART, which will be released in 2023.
production/produzione
Senator Film Produktion
(Germany/Germania)
www.senator.de
Amour Fou Luxembourg
(Luxembourg /Lussemburgo)
www.amourfoufilm.com
international distribution/distribuzione internazionale
festival contact
Sola Media
(Germany/Germania)
www.sola-media.com