DER GROSSE BRUDER
THE BIG BROTHER

film type animated film Production Country Germany, Switzerland production year 2011 runtime 6'00 colour
screening format 35mm aspect ratio 1.78:1 (16:9) sound format Dolby SR
screening format HDCAM aspect ratio 1.78:1 (16:9) sound format Dolby SR

A children's film about fun and cruelty among children. Two cartoon characters develop a life of their own in the combination of pixilation and classic animation. They humiliate and mock the third unfinished figure, but their temporary superiority shifts as he turns out to be their big brother.

director Elisabeth Hütterman, Jesús Pérez Animation Jesús Pérez, Lukas Huber Schnitt / Editing Jesús Pérez Drehbuch / Script Jesús Pérez Original-Filmmusik / Original Score Cergio Prudencio Bildgestaltung / DOP Gerd Gockell Produktion / Production Gerd Gockell Tongestaltung / Sound Design Gustavo Navarre
Festivals
Berlinale - Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin, Germany
Annecy International Animation Film Festival, France
Internationales Trickfilm-Festival Stuttgart (ITFS), Germany
FILMFEST DRESDEN - International Short Film Festival, Dresden, Germany
DOK Leipzig - Internationales Leipziger Festival für Dokumentar- und Animationsfilm, Germany
Filmfest München, Germany
Solothurner Filmtage, Switzerland
Ottawa International Animation Festival, Canada (Best Short Film for Children)
International Film Festival "Nueva Mirada" for Children & Youth, Buenos Aires, Argentina (Golden Kite)
Chicago International Children's Film Festival, USA
Production
  • Gerd Gockell Filmproduktion
  • Gerd Gockell
  • Etterlinhalde 1
  • 6004 Luzern
Distribution
  • Gerd Gockell Filmproduktion
  • Gerd Gockell
  • Etterlinhalde 1
  • 6004 Luzern
Sales
  • Gerd Gockell Filmproduktion
  • Gerd Gockell
  • Etterlinhalde 1
  • 6004 Luzern

Elisabeth Hütterman

Born 1943 in Luzern;
in 1974 she graduated in Design in Dortmund;
since 1995 working together with Jesús Pérez as a producer;
THE BIG BROTHER is her first co-direction

Jesús Pérez

Born 1954 in Bolivia;
since 1977 animation films;
since 1995 realizing animated films about migration and globalization for German and Swiss schools;
since 2002 professor for animation at the Lucerne University of Applied Science and Arts

Filmography
1977 UN INSTANTE -UNA VIDA
1978 EL PASTOR MENTIROSO
2000 MITEINANDER
2005 PUNKT & STRICHE
2006 ICH UND DIE ANDEREN
2006-2008 CAMINAR EN DEMOCRACIA
2011 DER GROßE BRUDER