Film

Das Mädchen mit den Feuerzeugen

1987 · Drama

IMDb

7.2

This modern variation on Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale "The Girl with the Matchsticks" begins Christmas in a home for the disabled. The four wheelchair users Aga, Ringo, the White Giant and Spasski are fed up with the same old boredom and decide to celebrate their own "party". They requisition the collected donations and set off to explore Munich at night. There, all doors are initially closed to the wheelchair gang, but then the friends meet an angel in the form of a lighter saleswoman who grants them three wishes. None of the runaways take them seriously until the first wish is actually fulfilled unexpectedly.

Enrico Boetcher

Ringo

Arnold Frühwald

Aga

Rupert Seidl

Stefan, der Weiße Riese

Stefan Wood

Spasski

Eva Ordonez

Engel

Ludger Pistor

Taxifahrer

Ortrud Beginnen

Heimleiterin

Barbara May

Hotelgast

Mathias Herrmann

Hotelgast

Elena Rublack

Dirigentin

• Ralf HuettnerDirector

Release date

December 17, 1987

Status

Released

Original language

German

Genres

Drama