Momo (Film)

  • Radost Bokel: Momo
  • Leopoldo Trieste: Beppo
  • Bruno Stori: Gigi
  • Mario Adorf: Nicola
  • Ninetto Davoli: Nino the innkeeper
  • Concetta Russino: Liliana
  • Francesco de Rosa: Mr. Figaro
  • Sylvester Groth: Agent BLW / 553 X
  • Elide Melli: Daria
  • Piero Tordi: Ettore
  • Hartmut Kollakowsky: Lord Grey
  • John Huston: Master Hora
  • Michael Ende: passenger in the train
  • Rosemarie Fendel: over-excited American ( Tourist )

Momo is a film adaptation based on the novel by Michael Ende.

Action

The Orphan Girl Momo is found by the street sweeper Beppo in an ancient amphitheater. The neighbors around take care of Momo, in turn, their time and attention dedicated to their fellow man. She listens to them and asking questions, the questions frequently asked by her question "Why?" Fellow human beings often compelled to reconsider their actions fundamentally.

The situation changes when the gray men of the time the adult possession. They are representative of the time savings and collect people's time, in order to consume itself. Momo detects this and tries to fight back with their playmates, thus they become the target of the men in gray. The manager of the time, the professor, also recognizes the danger and leads Momo by his assistant, the tortoise Cassiopeia, to be in his house in safety. He inaugurates Momo into the secrets of the time and wins the girl for his plan to rid the people of the men in gray.

The professor stops time while Momo returns from the timeless sphere Horas with a flower in the normal hours, but stopped time. The gray men who receive no more supplies of new time by stopping the time, fear for their existence and try to remove the hours Momo flower. At the same time they reduce their number, so that the few remaining men can live with the remaining time longer. So, they could not manage to overpower Momo, and so dissolve at the end of the last men in gray, in the fight against Momo and against itself

Background

The shot in Cinecittà Studios in Rome film adheres closely to the novel. Author Michael Ende, the film, unlike the film version of "The Neverending Story " expressly approved and adopted a minor role in the film. The epilogue of the story was moved to the beginning of the film.

Reviews

" A fairy tale film that relies less on gross effects than on believable characters and atmospheric density -. Albeit end pseudomythologischer profundity sometimes seems flimsy and the staging comes close to kitsch "

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