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  • Flowers for the Man in the Moon (1975)
  • 84 min | Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Flowers for the Man in the Moon (1975)
84 min | Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

Adam, Evchen, and Manni are looking at the moon through their home-made telescope. Evchen isn't interested, and dismisses the moon as a lump of cheese. Manni, who is a big fan of technology, sees satellites and a car driving over the ...See moreAdam, Evchen, and Manni are looking at the moon through their home-made telescope. Evchen isn't interested, and dismisses the moon as a lump of cheese. Manni, who is a big fan of technology, sees satellites and a car driving over the moon's surface. But Adam hears the moon speak, and hears it ask for flowers to cover its surface. From then on, Adam is determined to breed a kind of flower that can grow on the moon. Although he is made fun of at school and is yelled at by his father, who develops extra-nutritious vegetables for Professor Vitamin, Adam keeps trying. Eventually things take a positive turn. Kondensmaxe, in his airplane, finds Professor Vitamin's old magic greenhouse. It turns out the Professor was herself concerned with developing such a flower, before the war, and is willing to assist Adam in his research. Manni and Evchen support him every step of the way, and so does Adam's grandfather. Eventually Adam's mother even convinces her husband to assist the children as well, although he believes that flowers are something "for poets and women." Even he is finally persuaded to abandon the purely useful for the extraordinarily beautiful. What is particularly charming about this movie is the magic found in the every-day. The clips of growing flowers seem just as magical as the idea of a flower on the moon. The university seen from the perspective of a child is just as impressive as the bewitched greenhouse in the middle of the woods. Suddenly anything is possible. The happy message of the film is to fight for what you believe in, as Adam does. That Adam convinces skeptics to help him is almost more important than the successful development of the moon flower. Written by DEFA Film Library See less
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Director
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Gudrun Deubener (dramatisation) | Rolf Losansky | Irmgard Speitel (scenario) | Ulrich Speitel (scenario)
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Updated Oct 10, 1975

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Oct 10, 1975 (East Germany)

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31 cast members
Name Known for
Jutta Wachowiak
Mutter Ledermann Mutter Ledermann   See fewer
Stefan Lisewski
Vater Ledermann Vater Ledermann   See fewer
Sven Grothe
Adam Ledermann Adam Ledermann   See fewer
Annemone Haase
Professor Vitamin Professor Vitamin   See fewer
Gerhard Bienert
Opa Sielaff Opa Sielaff   See fewer
Dieter Franke
Kondensmaxe Kondensmaxe   See fewer
Astrid Heinze
Evchen, Kind Evchen, Kind   See fewer
Dirk Förster
Manni, Kind Manni, Kind   See fewer
Yvonne Dießner
Susi, Kind Susi, Kind   See fewer
Ronald Schwarz
Egon, Kind Egon, Kind   See fewer
Carl Heinz Choynski
Faktotum Faktotum   See fewer
Evamaria Bath
Gertrud Gertrud   See fewer
Hannelore Groth
Irmchen Irmchen   See fewer
Klaus Gehrke
Bäcker Pfannkuchen Bäcker Pfannkuchen   See fewer
Gertraud Last
Dozentin Dozentin   See fewer
Werner Wieland
Zerstreuter Professor Zerstreuter Professor   See fewer
Friedrich Teitge
Alter Mann Alter Mann   See fewer
Günther Grabbert
Narrator (voice) Narrator (voice)   See fewer
Peter Pohl
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Sabine Heinrich
Actress Actress   See fewer
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