KÄSTNER AND LITTLE TUESDAY
(GER: Kästner und der kleine Dienstag)

Germany, 1931. The youth novel “Emil and the Detectives” is being filmed, which will make its author, Erich Kästner, world famous. An unusual friendship begins between the childless author and fatherless Hans, the 9-year-old playing the character Little Tuesday. Their friendship is put to the ultimate test in the Third Reich when Kästner’s books are banned and little Hans becomes a Hitler Youth. Based on a true story.

Screenplay: Dorothee Schön
Director: Wolfgang Murnberger
Camera: Peter von Haller
Production design: Hans Jager
Costume designer: Brigitta Fink
Make up: Tünde Kiss-Benke
Editing: Evi Romen
Music: Annette Focks
Editorial staff ARD-Degeto: Claudia Grässel
Editorial staff WDR: Götz Schmedes
Editorial staff ORF: Sabine Weber
Producers: Roswitha Ester, Eva Holtmann, Danny Krausz, Torsten Reglin, Kurt Stocker

Starring: Florian David Fitz, Nico Kleemann & Jascha Baum, Hans Löw, Inga Busch, Katharina Lorenz, Martin Brambach, Catrin Striebeck among others

An Ester.Reglin.Film and Dor Film Köln production in co-production with Dor Film Wien, ARD/Degeto, WDR and ORF.

Screenplay development supported by FFA
Production supported by RTR Fernsehfonds and Filmfonds Wien

Festivals
34th Filmfest München 2016, New German TV Movies
10th Five Lakes Film Festival 2016
7th Portland German Film Festival 2016
Film Festival Cologne 2016
38th Biberacher Filmfestspiele
27th Kinofest Lünen

TV premiere: 22 Dec. 2017 (ARD)

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