It is a relationship that prepares you for future loves and the world ahead. Anyone who ever had a special bond with a stuffed animal will understand. Dorothea, once a celebrated pianist in Berlin, with her life turned upside down, is now mainly concerned with making sure that her children have enough to eat and a roof over their head.Ĭarla Juri on Anna (Riva Krymalowski) making a tough decision: “Pink Rabbit, was very much about protecting the children and not to make them feel the war.” It is as much about the parents comforting the children as it is about the kids signalling that they understand and are on board. The older brother Max (Hohmann), who calls his sister “little man” to her perpetual chagrin, plays along, together with Anna. The daughter Anna (Krymalowski), whose perspective is guiding us through the story, is a stand-in for Judith Kerr and how she experienced the numerous uprootings and what her parents did their best of disguising as an adventure. The father Arthur (Masucci), a famous theatre critic, modelled after the author’s father Alfred Kerr, is on Hitler’s hit list, and he and his wife Dorothea (Juri) and two children become refugees, first in Switzerland, then Paris, then London. Pink Rabbit is the story of a well-off Jewish family, the Kempers (Alfred Kerr’s actual family name was Kempner), living in Germany in 1933, the year the Nazis came to power. Housekeeper Heimpi (Werner) is the lost, doting presence children will remember all life long, the nosy concierge in Paris (Bennent) teaches them about the vileness of neighbourhood gossip, and uncle Julius (von Dohnányi) sends missives from their home country as it loses its soul. The father Arthur Kemper (Oliver Masucci) reunited with his son Max (Marinus Hohmann), wife Dorothea (Carla Juri), and daughter Anna (Riva Krymalowski)Ĭarla Juri, Riva Krymalowski, Oliver Masucci (a Joseph Beuys look-alike in Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s Never Look Away), and Marinus Hohmann star as the Kemper family, with a terrific ensemble cast, including Ursula Werner, Anne Bennent ( Volker Schlöndorff’s Swann in Love and unforgettable in Hans W Geissendörfer’s The Wild Duck), and Justus von Dohnányi ( Christian Petzold’s Transit).

When hitler stole my pink rabbit