30/5 — 5/6/2024
64th International Film Festival
for Children and Youth

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Section: Panorama

The Peppercorns and the Secret of the Deep Sea (2020) 10

Germany | 2020 | 90 min.

An unbeatable team of five teenage friends, the “Peppercorns” detective gang, unites to find out who is behind the kidnapping of a missing oceanographer who has discovered a means of getting rid of plastic waste in the ocean, and who has made some enemies. One shady garbage dealer seems to have no scruples. A race against time begins to save her life and their future.

CountryGermany
Year2020
Duration90 min
Rating10
LanguageGerman
SubtitleEnglish, Simultanneous transla
Directed by Christian Theede
Screenplay Dirk Ahner
Director of Photography Matthias Fleischer
Music Mario Schneider, Cornelius Renz
Edited by Martin Rahner
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Biography

A German director educated in literature and theater, later specializing in film and TV. He’s made mainly TV films and series, as well as the adventure film Time Heroes (Allein gegen die Zeit, 2016) and two films about a group of young detectives The Peppercorns (Pfefferkörners, 2017, 2020).

Friendship, Action + Adventure, Crime, Environment, Technology, Entertainment, Entertainment, Environment