PRODUCTION Germany / Switzerland
A 2019 Christmas release for When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
- Warner Bros. Pictures will release Oscar-winner Caroline Link's classic children's book adaptation in Germany on 26 December 2019
As the Christmas holidays draw closer, the latest project by the German Oscar-winning writer-director Caroline Link (Nowhere in Africa [+see also:
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The film features newcomers Riva Krymalowski, in the lead role of 9-year-old Anna, and Marinus Hohmann (Welcome to Germany [+see also:
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The original novel When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit is often used in German and British schools as a way of introducing pupils to a dark chapter in German history and to life as a refugee. Caroline Link's film version is supported by the German Ministry of Culture BKM, the German Federal Film Board FFA, the German Federal Film Fund DFFF, the Agency for Media, IT and Film Baden-Württemberg, the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, the FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, and SRF Swiss Radio and Television, amongst others. The film's international sales are being handled by Beta Cinema.
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