Gritta of the Rats' Castle (1985)
The tale of young Gritta who lives with her father, an unsuccessful inventor. When her new stepmother tries to put her away in a convent she discovers some dark secrets there.
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Thanks for the memories!
Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .
Best movie ever!
Admirable film.
Gritta vom Rattenschloß (also known as Gritta vom Rattenzuhausbeiuns) is the amusing tale of a young girl whose father, an inventor of bizarre and spectacular machinery, remarries.Gritta doesn't get on with her new stepmother and so runs away from the home she shares with father's inventions and some friendly rats - taking refuge in a convent.There she makes friends with a bunch of other waifs. They all break out of the convent and learn a few survival skills, including evading capture and cow-milking, before Gritta eventually finds her way home and back to her young love.Sumptuously filmed, much higher quality than your usual East German children's story. A classic which is regularly repeated on German children's television.