Once I Was a Child
1987, German. Directed by Tamara Trampe.
The interviews conducted by Tamara Trampe in a Pankow kindergarten testify to a rare attempt to enter the world of the young interviewees completely, to give their stories a space where reality and fantasy, worries and wishes can mix freely. A space that’s not always provided in the daily life of the kindergarten, as the film casually suggests even after it was toned down by the DEFA censors: toilets without doors, ghastly birthday parties and friendly but unmistakable reprimands when the children let too much dialect slip into the grammar exercise or when their pictures of soldiers are not realistic enough.
- Runtime
- 0h 17m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- German
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- Released
- 20 March 1987
- Original title
- Ich war einmal ein Kind
- Country
- East Germany
- Written by
- Tamara Trampe
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Once I Was a Child runs 17 minutes (0h 17m).
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Once I Was a Child isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 20 March 1987. (Checked 11 November 2026.)
What movies are like Once I Was a Child?
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Who directed Once I Was a Child?
Once I Was a Child (1987) was directed by Tamara Trampe.