Ciné-Club: "Der kleine Nick erzählt vom Glück" ("Le petit Nicolas: qu'est-ce qu'on attend pour être heureux?")

Ciné-Club, the film series on French cinema organized by Cinema Quadrat and Institut Français Mannheim, is showing an animated film about three icons of French (pop) culture:

Little Nick tells of happiness (Le petit Nicolas: qu'est-ce qu'on attend pour être heureux?).

FRA/LUX 2022. D: Amandine Fredon, Benjamin Massoubre. Animated film. 86 min. FrzOmdtU. FSK: 0

In 1950s Paris, comic author René Goscinny ("Asterix") and illustrator Jean-Jacques Sempé invent the character "Little Nick": Nick's school, his friends, his parents - it's a fun and adventurous childhood. During these lively animated episodes, Nick keeps stealing away to the studios of his creators...
In an original way, the animated film combines the adventures of the well-known and popular title character with biographical flashbacks to the not so cheerful (childhood) lives of Goscinny and Sempé: Goscinny's relatives were murdered in Auschwitz; Sempé grew up in a violent foster family. The film thus conjures up three national myths at once: little Nick and his two creators.

Introduction: Shirine Daumas, Institut Français Mannheim