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Wenn ich weine, schlägt mein Hertz (When I Cry, My Heart Beats)
Film
Title of the film
Original title:
Wenn ich weine, schlägt mein Hertz
English title:
When I Cry, My Heart Beats
Hungarian title:
Amikor sírok, dobog a szívem
Production and shooting info
Country of the production:
Germany - de
Year of production:
from 2006 to 2008
Year of shooting:
2006
Length of the film:
97 min
Colouring:
colour
Standard format:
DigiBeta
Recording format:
DV
Original language:
Romanian
Language of subtitle:
English
Description of the content
Home: The Sewers. Life: Drugs, Stealing, Begging. Hope: A Circus. Mustafa is eleven years old, and doesn’t really have a childhood. As a street-kid in Bucharest, he leads a sad and dangerous life amid drugs, prostitution and violence. If it wasn’t for the Parada Circus, he and twenty other street-children wouldn’t have a home. It’s here, during the daytime, they train to be circus performers, get a warm meal, a change of clothes and school lessons. “I miss having a house,” says Mustafa, “ a bed, a table, and a knife and fork and a spoon and a cooking pot. I’m happy when I’ve got money for cigarrettes and a bag of glue to sniff. When I take drugs, I dream and cry. I see pictures that move. I only sniff though, I don’t inject in my vains. I’ve already lost my voice a lot from begging. Sometimes I sing, too. I want to stop this life, not be a scallywag anymore. I don’t want to have dirty ears and dirty fingernails anymore.” Mustafa and five other street-children filmed with a mini-dv camera their own and very personal views of their lives. Using this remarkable material, together with her own observations, the director Annett Schütze, and her film-team created a poignant and moving portrait about forgotten children who refuse to give up- “When I Cry My Heart Beats.”
Credits
Director:
Annett Schütze
Music composer:
Simon Frontzeck
Antje Volkmann
Producer:
Annett Schütze
Holger Lochau
Cinematographer:
Aleksandrs Grebnenvs
Editor:
Friederike Schuchardt
Sound:
Christoph Engelke
Silvia Schmidt
Ruslans Gailiris
Casting:
Gabriel Costache
Alin Gheorghe
Mustafa Alexandru
Vandana Constantinescu
Natalia Burlan
Company / Institution
Production:
University for Film and Television HFF Konrad Wolf
Distributor:
University for Film and Television HFF Konrad Wolf
Ethnicity and locality
Etnic group:
Romanian
Continent:
East Europe
Country:
Romania - ro
Location
(City, village, region, mountains, etc.):
Bucharest
Tipology
Type:
non-fiction film
Form:
documentary film
Related sciences
Social science:
psychology
sociology
Keyword:
urban life
disadvantage
young people
drog
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