Dschungelkind

2011 [GERMAN]

Adventure / Biography / Drama / Family

3
IMDb Rating 7.1/10 10 1358 1.4K

Plot summary

A family of a German linguist lives with an indigenous tribe in Papua New Guinea.

Director

Roland Suso Richter Photo
Roland Suso Richter

Top cast

Thomas Kretschmann Photo
Thomas Kretschmann as Vater Klaus Kuegler
Claes Bang Photo
Claes Bang as Herb
John Keogh Photo
John Keogh as Al
Martina Ysker Photo
Martina Ysker as Junge Dame im Internat
720p.BLU 1080p.BLU
1.18 GB
1280*544
German 2.0
NR
us  
24 fps
2 hr 11 min
Seeds 3
2.43 GB
1920*816
German 5.1
NR
us  
24 fps
2 hr 11 min
Seeds 3

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Horst_In_Translation 8 / 10

A really positive surprise

Reviewed by spammail12 10 / 10

A true story to reflect on

I read the original book "Dschungelkind" some years ago and was simply amazed. Despite simple language the perceptible clash of cultures described with so much feeling was astonishing. This film does not entirely reach up to the book, but still catches one's heart and depicts the life of Sabine Kuegler very believably.Always keeping in mind this is an entirely true story with nothing made up, this biography makes one really think about how life could have been different and what perfect world means for yourself.Overall I can strongly recommend this film although reading the book before watching this film is probably the better order since this is even more thought-provoking.
Reviewed by Andy-296 8 / 10

Not up to the book, but worth watching

Sabine Kuegler's autobiographical "Jungle Child" is one of the best books I've read in the last 10 years. In it, she recounts her life as the daughter of a couple of German missionaries, living as a child with his family (that includes her parents, a brother and a sister) deep in the jungle of Indonesia's Papua (the western part of the island of New Guinea) working with the Fayu, an isolated tribe, still living in the stone age and in a stage of constant warfare, that has just decided to come forward to meet the rest of the world. Her story is enthralling. And an even big of a culture clash, was when Sabine returned to Europe at 17 years of age.Now we have a film version of the book. The movie was filmed in Malaysia, and I found it interesting though less compelling than the book. The movie, almost two and a half hours long, is relatively faithful but a bit sanitized (for instance, the fact that they were missionaries goes almost unmentioned). Kuegler is played by Stella Kunkat as a child and by Sina Tkotsch as a teenager. Of the actors in the movie, the best known is Thomas Kretschmann, who has appeared in many German movies and plays here Klaus Kuegler, Sabine's father. The color photography is a plus.
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