Lepel (Film)
- Joep Truijen: Lepel
- Loes Luca: granny Koppenol
- Carice van Houten: boss Broer
- Barry Atsma: Vendor Max
- Neeltje de Vree: Pleun
- Kees Hulst: Teacher Bijts
Lepel is the title of a children's film from the year 2005. The screenplay was written by Mieke de Jong, Willem van de Sande Bakhuyzen directed. The German - British-Dutch co-production was shot in 2004 in the cities of Gera, Weimar and Leipzig. The premiere took place on 20 October 2005.
Action
The seven year old Lepel ( German: spoon ) lives with his grandmother, the owner of a small haberdashery business. The grandmother supplied with studs by huge amounts of shirts, blouses and jackets entrains at Kaufhaus Visit to the dressing room and there cut off the buttons. In their store visits her Lepel must always wear the clothes in the dressing room, at home forcing him to sort the knob yield his grandmother. To escape this dreary life, decides not to go spoon with his grandmother home, but instead stay in the store. There he discovers that he is not alone. The 13 -year-old Pleun for some time living in a department store. The days she spends sleeping in a shelf behind sweaters and ties at night it uses from the cake cabinet. Only seller from Max knows its hidden existence. While Pleun in the department store prefers a boring life with annoying parents the secret of existence, to Lepel wants nothing more than his father and mother finally see again that circumnavigate the world with a free balloon. One day Lepel learns that his parents are killed in a crash. To his domineering grandmother, he does not want to go back, either. To school his math teacher Last used Lepels computing talent only for the purpose of winning a prize in a mental arithmetic competition. That is why Pleun and the seller Max make the search for suitable parents for Lepel. Max first tries to recruit various department store customers as a mother, but this fails because of the selfish desires of women. In the department store owner Max Broer discovered not only his love, but also the right mother for Lepel. As a " team - Broer ," Max, Lepel, Pleun - realize they Broers dream to participate in an all-terrain vehicle at a Africa Rally.
Criticism
"Wonderful between surreal tales and existential problems of children balancing film, which is also convincing acting and design. "
Awards
The film won the 2005 at the 14th Children's Film & TV Festival " Golden Sparrow 2005 " the price of the Broadcasting Council of the Central German broadcasting as an expert jury vote for the best screenplay.