Momo

Oct 24 1986 N/A 1h 41m
Comedy, Family, Fantasy

Momo is a young orphan girl who lives in the ruins of an old Roman amphitheater and becomes friends with everybody in the neighborhood. But when a powerful international corporation starts stealing everybody’s time, nobody has any time left for her, let alone their friends or families. Momo, together with Master Hora, the custodian of time, are the only ones who can go up against the time thieves before all is lost forever.

Plot

In the village of Momo the pace of time goes very slowly. Nobody is bothering about stress but everyone has time to chat and rest - until the day the grey men arrive. With a great selling strategy they offer the people an account to collect time. Now everybody is in stress in order to gain time for collecting, except for Momo who obviously is the only one without stress. Watching her former friends having no time at all for friendship and other social activities she decides to fight the grey men. The story is a modern fairy tale about how to use time.

Written by

Johannes Schaaf, Rosemarie Fendel, Michael Ende

Directed by

Johannes Schaaf

Cast

Radost Bokel, Mario Adorf, Armin Mueller-Stahl

Crew

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Production Countries

Italy, Germany

Production Companies

Iduna Film Produktiongesellschaft, Sacis, Cinecittà

Languages

Deutsch

Awards

1 win total

Scores
# of Votes
2,154
Average Rating
6.5 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
NA