Früchtchen - Am Äquator ist alles möglich

Nov 6 1998 N/A 1h 15m

Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

The story is an allegory, combining narrative aspects of comedy films, documentary films, fairy tales, and road movies. The story starts with a dying old woman, who is calling for her distant son. Her calls take solid form in the shape of a giant breadfruit, which falls from the sky right in front of her son's residence. Realizing that this is a message from his mother, the son sets out to find her and takes the fruit with him. His trek across the island involves interactions both with people who are either amused or disturbed by his abnormal fruit, and with those to whom the fruit seems to an answer to their "fantasies", "desires and dark longings".

Plot

São Tomé, a tropical island, the head of a pin off the west coast of Africa and right on the equator, the middle of nowhere. There lies an old woman, dying, who calls to her distant son. Her cry becomes concrete as a breadfruit of gigantic proportions, a huge thing, falls to the ground in front of the son's hut. 'Ma is calling me!' He names the monster Little Fruit, this vegetable meteorite, and begins his journey. Little Fruit treks across the island and into the city to Ma, through much danger and many challenges, spells and counter-spells. A turbulent tour. 'Little Fruit' is a burlesque, an African fairy tale, documentary and road movie, the description of a wondrous island world. Its residents are the actors in the 'song of Ma'.

Written by

Herbert Brödl

Directed by

Herbert Brödl

Cast

Jacinto Alfonso, Atalmira, Simão de Sousa

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Production Countries

Austria, Germany

Production Companies

3sat, Baumhaus Film Brödl, HR, ORF, WDR, Bayerischer Rundfunk

Languages

Português, Deutsch

Awards

N/A

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6 out of 10

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