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Das Lachen

1987-08-21 · 9 min · Not rated

Animation

An ancient fairy tale tells that Athanga created the world with animals and humans. Since the creatures soon began to quarrel with each other, he decided that from then on, everyone would only live for a short time and then die. This brought much suffering upon the people, but the power of laughter remained with them.

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Directors
Peter Pohler, Alexander Reimann
Production companies
DEFA-Studio für Trickfilme
Countries
East Germany
Status
Released

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Volkmar KleinertVolkmar KleinertNarrator (voice)

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