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The Crocodiles

2009 · 98 min

A sunny, good-natured kids' adventure about belonging, with scrappy gang antics and a gentle lesson about accepting others.

Directed by
Christian Ditter
Genres
Adventure, Family
Starring
Nick Romeo Reimann, Leonie Tepe, Fabian Halbig
Overview
Ten-year-old Hannes, growing up with his young, poor and single mother wants to join the coolest gang in the area, the Vorstadtkrokodile. When the ‘entry test’ goes wrong, Hannes’s life is saved by Kai, who is desperate to join too but is wheelchair bound and unable to even run away when things get hot. Hannes would accept Kai but the other gang members don’t seem happy to accept a handicapped member...

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Directed by
Christian Ditter
Genres
Adventure, Family
Starring
Nick Romeo Reimann, Leonie Tepe, Fabian Halbig
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Tone
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • lightstrength 2 of 3
  • upliftingstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • friendship
  • coming-of-age
  • found family
  • isolation
  • family
Places
  • suburbs
  • small town
Era
contemporary
Audience
family
Form
  • ensemble
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action4
Horror0
Humour4
Realism6
Romance1
Tension3
Darkness2
Complexity2
Emotional weight4

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Genres
adventure, family
Directed by
Christian Ditter
Written by
Christian Ditter, Martin Ritzenhoff
Starring
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Music
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Cinematography
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Runtime
98 min
Country
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Languages
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