Struwwelpeter - Wer nicht hören will, muss fühlen (2026)
When Eli enters her grandmother’s house with her mother Renate for the first time, it quickly becomes clear why she has never met her grandmother. When Eli opens the forbidden cellar door, she not only learns about her mother’s cruel past, but also unleashes Struwwelpeter – and with him the violence inflicted on Renate as a child, embodied in the form of the ill-mannered child that should have stayed in the cellar forever. Struwwelpeter now avenges the past and the injustices of harsh, authoritarian child-rearing.
Director: Moritz Schlögell
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Valentina Schüler as Eli |
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Katrin Filzen as Renate |
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Nils Thalmann as Struwwelpeter |
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Astrid Polak as Eleonor |
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Victoria Abelmann-Brockmann as Nurse |
| Directing | Moritz Schlögell | Director |
| Camera | Leander Hartung | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Nicolai Otteni | Writer |
| Editing | Carmen Walker | Editor |
| Art | Tizian Erlemann | Set Designer |
| Art | Lukas Schuhmacher | Set Designer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Nadezhda Agriiants | Makeup Artist |
| Sound | Emma Kélalèche | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Justus Wirth | Sound |
| Sound | Giulio Conversi | Sound Designer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Pauline Schulze | Costume Design |
| Production | Anne Hünseler | Casting |
| Editing | Florian Utsi Martin | Colorist |
| Production | Nicolai Otteni | Producer |
| Production | Leonard Leitgeb | Producer |