18.09.22 | ハウルの動く城 / DAS WANDELNDE SCHLOSS (JP 2004, Hayao Miyazaki)

JP 2004, D: Hayao Miyazaki, 119′, German version, DCP, approved for ages 6 and older

In DAS WANDELNDE SCHLOSS we see everything that makes Studio Ghibli’s animated films so adorable: a love story against all odds, a venerable Europe with giant gadgetry, amiable monsters and tragic heroes, sweeping fighting and food feast. DAS WANDELNDE SCHLOSS tells of the love between Sophie and Hauro. She is a hatter, turned into an old mummy by an evil witch, he is the beautiful wizard, travelling through no-man’s-land with his moving castle. There, Sophie signs up for housekeeping and now has enough time to approach her heartthrob, who yet has to find out that she is actually as young as he is. And then, there is a war to stop…