Peppermint Frieden
Peppermint Peace
The story of a post-war childhood in rural Bavaria. Marianne is five in 1945, when she and her ethnic German parents arrive in Straubing as displaced persons from Terezín in then Czechoslovakia. Her father, a former soldier in the German army, returns to his pre-war occupation as a teacher. Under permanent rebuke from the village priest, Marianne and her friends are curious about religion and sex. They are especially fascinated by an American GI. Part of the occupation forces, he starts up an affair with a pretty neighbour, while generously distributing chewing gum to the town's children. So for them, peace (Frieden) tastes of peppermint. But the preacher's constant sermons about the evil of the Soviet "Ivans" awaken in Marianne memories of the trauma of war, which intensify when "Mr Peace" receives orders to go to Korea.
In neo-realistic scenes and colourful dream sequences, the film uses idiosyncratic camerawork to look at Cold War taboos from a child's point of view. Made in 1983, during the era of rearmament debates, Marianne Rosenbaum's alternative take on history in this Heimatfilm, with its Bavarian and American star cast, can be considered a political statement.
Quelle: 69. Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin (Katalog)
Credits
Director
Screenplay
Director of photography
Editing
Music
Cast
- Mr. Frieden
- Marianne
- Mutter
- Vater
- Großmutter
- Nilla Grünapfel
- Kriegsblinder Arira
- Schreiner Lustig
- Schieber Scharrer
- Herr Expositus, Priester
Production company
Alle Credits
Director
Script supervisor
Screenplay
Director of photography
Assistant camera
Still photography
Lighting design
Construction manager
Make-up artist
Costume design
Editing
Assistant editor
Sound
Sound assistant
Music recording
Foley artist
Audio mixing
Music
Cast
- Mr. Frieden
- Marianne
- Mutter
- Vater
- Großmutter
- Nilla Grünapfel
- Kriegsblinder Arira
- Schreiner Lustig
- Schieber Scharrer
- Herr Expositus, Priester
- Dr. Klug
- Elfriede
- Klara
- Schosserl
- Karl
- Siegfried
- Franzi
- Frl. Dax
- Schreinergeselle - Jesus
- Russe Vladimir
- Frl. Emma
- Militärpolizei
- Militärpolizei
- Amerikanischer Beamter
- Frl. Kriegelstein
- Frl. Hambach
- Frl. Müller
- Baron Erwin
- Fotograf
Production company
Location manager
Production assistant
Original distributor
Shoot
- Mai 1982 - Juli 1982: Straubing, Haslbach, Parkstetten, Steinbach, Mittenfels
FSK-Prüfung (DE): 23.03.1983, 53773, ab 12 Jahre / feiertagsfrei;
FSK-Prüfung (DE): 22.09.1983, 53773 [2. FSK-Prüfung]
TV-Erstsendung (DE): 05.05.1989, 3Sat
Titles
- Arbeitstitel Ich bin vor dem Jahre Null geboren
- Originaltitel (DE) Peppermint Frieden
- Weiterer Titel Peppermint Peace
Versions
Original
FSK-Prüfung (DE): 23.03.1983, 53773, ab 12 Jahre / feiertagsfrei;
FSK-Prüfung (DE): 22.09.1983, 53773 [2. FSK-Prüfung]
TV-Erstsendung (DE): 05.05.1989, 3Sat