Children
Feature Film
Family

Help, I’ve Shrunk My Parents

Felix Vorndran's school is haunted again, only this time it's not the benevolent spirit of school founder Otto Leonhard and the nuisance he caused, but the hated and long-since dead Director Hulda Stingbeard. An accursed coincidence causes the former shrunken and skeletonized school ghoul to rise again in the school basement. She manages to return to real life, shrinks Dr. Schmitt Gössenwein, and takes over the school to re-impose 19th century education. Felix, Ella and their gang set the levers in motion to save the school again and stumble across a big secret!

While Felix's turbulent adventure to save the school is packed with fast-paced excitement and lots of humor, his emotional challenges lie on the home front. His mother's return from America created a lot of tension between the parents which drives Felix crazy. That they end up getting shrunken through no fault of his own actually comes in handy. This way he has both squabblers in control, and the balance of power in the house of Vorndran shifts – little turns to big, and big turns to little. But when his parents find themselves in real danger and end up in Hulda Stingbeard's claws, Felix realizes how important his parents really are to him.

Data

Genre: Family
Category: Children, Feature Film
Financing: Minority coproduction
Format: Digital Cinema Master, 90 Min
Release: 19.01.2018
Distribution: Sony Pictures Filmverleih GmbH
Admissions: 123.557
Funding Film Institute: 254.000 €
Share of Austrian production costs: 28 %
Share of total production costs: 4 %
Co-production: Blue eyes Fiction (DE, 87%), Karibu Film (DE), Deutsche Columbia Pictures Film (DE), ARRI Media (DE)
International funding: Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, Filmfernsehfonds Bayern, Filmförderungsanstalt, Deutscher Filmförderfonds, HessenFilm
Funding program: ÖFI
first run on ORF1 Austrian Broadcasting Service: 25.12.2024
Viewers: 32.000
Film location: Germany, Vienna, Lower Austria
Shooting time: March - May 2017
Days of shooting: 45
Completion: Winter 2017/2018
Funding institutions Austria: Filminstitut, Filmfonds Wien, Filmstandort Austria, Land Niederösterreich

Credits

Production: MINI FILM ProKids-Kulturverein Filmproduktions KG
Producer Austria: Katja Dor-Helmer
Director: Tim Trageser
Script: Gerrit Hermans
DOP: Felix Poplawsky
Editor: Marco Pav D'Auria
Sound engineer: Max Vornehm
Costume design: Birgit Hutter
Set design: Alexandra Maringer
Cast: Oskar Keymer (Felix), Anja Kling (Dr. Schmitt Gössenwein), Axel Stein (Peter), Julia Hartmann (Sandra), Lina Hüesker (Ella), Andrea Sawatzki (Hulda), Otto Waalkes (Otto), Johannes Zeiler (Hausmeister), Michael Ostrowski (Lehrer)
Production manager: Dirk Engelhard
German Title: Hilfe, ich hab meine Eltern geschrumpft