Momo
– In the ruins of an amphitheatre just outside an unnamed Italian city lives Momo, a little girl of my..
In the ruins of an amphitheatre just outside an unnamed Italian city lives Momo, a little girl of mysterious origin. She is remarkable in the neighbourhood because she has the extraordinary ability to listen — really listen. By simply being with people and listening to them, she can help them find answers to their problems, make up with each other, and think of fun games.
24 Oct 1986
German
Johannes Schaaf
Johannes Schaaf (screenplay), Rosemarie Fendel (screenplay), Michael Ende (screenplay), Marcello Coscia (screenplay), Michael Ende (novel)
Radost Bokel, Mario Adorf, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Sylvester Groth
In the village of Momo the pace of time goes very slowly. Nobody is bothering about stress but everyone has time to chat and rest - until the day the grey men arrive. With a great selling strategy they offer the people an account to collect time. Now everybody is in stress in order to gain time for collecting, except for Momo who obviously is the only one without stress. Watching her former friends having no time at all for friendship and other social activities she deceides to fight the grey men. The story is a modern fairy tale about how to use time.
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