“Bibi & Tina – Simply different”
“Crying is part of the experience”: That’s what Detlev Buck says about the debate about crying children
Director Detlev Buck with the actresses Harriet Herbig-Matten (left) and Katharina Hirschberg during the shooting of “Bibi & Tina – Simply Different”.
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Children are said to have left the cinema screaming: “Bibi & Tina – Simply Different” has been criticized for days. Director Detlev Buck has now spoken out – and underpinned his point of view with a personal anecdote.
This new start was not to everyone’s taste: Eight years after Detlev Buck brought the first part of the “Bibi & Tina” series to the cinemas and thus gave the starting signal for one of the most successful radio play film adaptations of the past 20 years, the director The adventures of the witch Bibi Blocksberg and her friend Tina Martin are restaged. With other actresses: Instead of Lina Larissa Strahl and Lisa-Marie Koroll, Katharina Hirschberg and Harriet Herbig-Matten now played the two friends.
But that wasn’t the only change from the first four films. This time the horse lovers have to deal with an extraterrestrial, among other things, and the Martinshof is threatened by a hail of meteorites. That was obviously too much for the nerves of some young viewers: According to a report by RTL News, several children left the cinema disturbed.
“Bibi & Tina”: Now director Detlev Buck expresses himself
Was the movie too hard? “The lively story, told with a lot of humor and fantastic elements, is always told in a way that is suitable for children,” the FSK testing center explains its decision to release the film for all age groups.
Now Detlev Buck has also spoken out: Not every misfortune is a catastrophe, said the director, and based on a personal anecdote he explained why one can also expect something from young people: “The beady eyes of my teddy fell off and were made by my mother sewn on again, I will never forget that. I wanted to pass on the experience that if something breaks, it can also be repaired.” Crying is part of the experience, in the end everything ends well in the film, “and that’s the best experience you can have. But before that there have to be ups and downs, that’s called dramaturgy, otherwise everything is the same! “
In his statement, Buck also went into how the media dealt with any scandals or dangers: “A big point of the film that is important to me is that the media can spread hysteria, and that seems to be happening again here.”
Sources used: RTL newsOpinion Detlev Buck