WILLKOMMEN IM TOLLHAUS

In the organizer's words:

"Lichtspiele Kalk" show in the film series "Cinemania Kalk"...
WELCOME TO THE MADHOUSE
Director: Todd Solondz
USA 1995 | 87 min. | HD | FSK 12
English original version with German subtitles

"Eleven-year-old Dawn 'Weinerdog' Wiener is a junior-high geek who just wants to be popular. Teased by her classmates and tormented by the school bully, she develops an improbable plan to seduce the star of a high-school garage band. Todd Solondz's celebrated black comedy follows Dawn through the many dark corners of suburban youth. Bitterly funny and true to life, the film launched Solondz's career, won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, and is now hailed as a classic of modern independent cinema." Film at Lincoln Center

"90 minutes of concentrated childhood trauma without a happy ending, wrapped up in a laconic and biting tragicomedy. Completely unsentimental but extremely sensitive, director Todd Solondz ("Happiness") depicts the everyday horrors experienced by children, focusing on the ambivalent behavior of perpetrators and victims. Heather Matarazzo's impressive performance as the brave outsider is particularly good." Prisma

Price information:

Tickets at the Box Office or in advance via www.lichtspiele-kalk.de ... Reservation by telephone on 0221 29 49 49 79 ... Admission € 9.00 // reduced € 8.00 (students, apprentices, school / FSJ / people under 25 / guild pass) // Cologne Pass € 7.00