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ContentAs every weekday, Torsten (Torsten Römer) and Julia (Julia Selbeck), eleven and ten years old, leave their home in north-east Munich to go to school. Their path leads through industrial and nature areas, which they absorb with ardent fancy. Their actual destination - school - is quickly forgotten and only reappears from time to time in short daydreams. Again and again the children's minds interweave fact and fantasy as everyday reality is projected onto the backdrop of their imagination. They cross paths with signs of the adult world, pick some up and play with - but also against - them. After a playful battle with leaves on an old graveyard, they lose sight of one another during a game of hide-and-seek. Each of them copes differently with the state of being alone. On their way through the forest they are confronted with images and sounds of the wind and trees. Again it is their imagination which gives them the strength to deal with their fear. Finally the two are reunited in a gravel pit, where they frolic until the onset of dusk. From a hill of gravel they watch evening fall upon the city. A flock of birds soaring skillfully through the air and the evening commercials on TV compete for the childrens attention, as an eventful day draws to a close. Abstaining from any dialogue, the story and its atmosphere is related through images, sounds and music. The different scenes are made up out of images from all four seasons. Summer and winter alternate seamlessly, continually unravelling the sequence of events. The images brought forth by the childrens imagination is an equally important component of the film. Like in the perception of a child, in this film dream and reality are being granted equal significance. Awards
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