Children
Family

Help, I shrunk my friends

Felix learns how to shrink people from the in-house school ghost (Otto Waalkes) himself so that he can protect the school founder’s magic collection on the school trip. Unfortunately, he fails to notice that he is playing into the hands of the evil Hulda Stingbeard when he shrinks his friends so that he can be alone with new girl Melanie.

Data

Genre: Family
Category: Children
Financing: Minority coproduction
Format: DCP, 95 Min
Release: 02.09.2021
Distribution: FILMLADEN Filmverleih GmbH
Admissions: 25.167
Funding Film Institute: 443.508 €
Share of Austrian production costs: 33 %
Share of total production costs: 6 %
Co-production: Blue Eyes Fiction GmbH & Co KG, Karibufilm GmbH, DCM Pictures GmbH (DE, 63%), Filmvergnügen Gmbh (IT, 10%), Potemkino (BE, 9%)
International funding: NRW, FFF Bayern, FFA, DFFF, IDM + Tax Credit (IT), Screen Flanders + Tax Shelter (BE)
Funding program: ÖFI
first run on ORF1 Austrian Broadcasting Service: 26.12.2024
Viewers: 37.000
Film location: Vienna, Lower Austria, South Tyrol, Germany, Belgium
Shooting time: August - October 2019
Days of shooting: 42
Completion: Summer 2020
Funding institutions Austria: Filminstitut, Filmfonds Wien, Land Niederösterreich, Filmstandort Austria

Credits

Production: MINI FILM ProKids-Kulturverein Filmproduktions KG
Producer Austria: Katja Dor-Helmer
Director: Granz Henman
Script: Gerrit Hermans
DOP: Marcus Kanter
Editor: Ingo Recker
Sound engineer: Hubertus Müll
Sound design: Marius Heuser
Costume design: Birgit Hutter
Set design: Pierre Pfundt
Music: Anne-Kathrin Dern
Cast: Oskar Keymer (Felix), Axel Stein (Peter), Anja Kling (Frau Schmitt-Gossenwein), Lina Hüesker (Ella), Andrea Sawatzki (Hulda Stechbarth), Michael Ostrowski (Herr Coldegol)
Production manager: Konstantin Seitz
German Title: Hilfe, ich hab meine Freunde geschrumpft