
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
- 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
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