Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern

Overview

On a cold Christmas Eve, a little girl is shivering in the streets. She has a bundle of matches to sell. She decides to not returns the orphanage, and ran away, in the rundown family home . "If I could light at least one, to have a little warm. Just one to warm me up." This heartbreaking version of Hans Christian Andersen's tale tells how her parents' visions gently accompanied her to death.

Directed by Uwe Janson

Top cast

Lea Müller

Inga

Maximilian Ehrenreich

Emil

Nina Kunzendorf

Frau Landfried

Jörg Hartmann

Der Fremde

Oliver Korittke

Der Gendarm

Ferdinand Lehmann

Franz

Michael Lott

Der Händler

Theo Trebs

Emil

Anna Schäfer

K

Kerstin Kramer

Ingas Mutter

B

Ben Zimmermann

Vater

N

Nevena Schöneberg

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