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GIFFONI FILM FESTIVAL 1980 - 26 July.3 August

Sections & Films

THE CHILDREN FROM NUMBER 67

Category: Edition 1980

Synopsis
The "Our Gang" type adventures of German working class kids from a Berlin apartment building (number 67) during the early 1930s. With Nazism's rise, however, their tight-knit group unravels. One leader, Paul, becomes a Nazi. (In a later book of the series, you discover he renounces Nazism and flees to Switzerland.) One, Erwin, resists Nazification. (In a later book, his father takes him to Sweden. He eventually, however, fights for the British.) And the girl, Miriam, who is Jewish, immigrates to Canada. (In a later book, she returns to Europe after the war, where all three comrades finally meet in Geneva to renew their vows of friendship once again.)

Original Title DIE KINDER AUS NR. 67
Category Official Competition
Festival Awards Special Prize (1980)
Section Official Competition
Tipology Feature Film
Duration 103'
Production Year 1980
Nationality West Germany
Directed by Usch Barthelmeß-Weller, Werner Meyer
Screenplay Usch Barthelmeß-Weller, Werner Meyer
Main cast Bernd Riedel, René Schaaf, May Buschke
face manUSCH BARTHELMESS-WELLER

face manWERNER MEYER

Werner Meyer was born in 1948 in Kronberg, Germany. He is a director and writer, known for Die Kinder aus Nr. 67 (1980).