The Legend of Timm Thaler or The Boy Who Sold His Laughter

Original title: Timm Thaler oder Das verkaufte Lachen

2017
1h 42m

IMDb RATING

6.1/10

624

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The Legend of Timm Thaler or The Boy Who Sold His Laughter (2017)

The devil tricks a little boy off his laughter in exchange for assured wins in all his bets. It depicts his journey after the deal with the devil, how he loses his soul bit by bit with each win.

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The devil tricks a little boy off his laughter in exchange for assured wins in all his bets. It depicts his journey after the deal with the devil, how he loses his soul bit by bit with each ... Read allThe devil tricks a little boy off his laughter in exchange for assured wins in all his bets. It depicts his journey after the deal with the devil, how he loses his soul bit by bit with each win.The devil tricks a little boy off his laughter in exchange for assured wins in all his bets. It depicts his journey after the deal with the devil, how he loses his soul bit by bit with each win.

Director
- Andreas Dresen
Writers
- Alexander Adolph
- James Krüss
Stars

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IMDb RATING

6.1/10

624

YOUR RATING

Director
- Andreas Dresen
Writers
- Alexander Adolph
- James Krüss
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 3 wins & 5 nominations

Trivia
Thomas Ohrner, who plays the concierge in this remake, played the title character Timm Thaler in an earlier adaption of the same book, Timm Thaler (1979).

Connections
Version of Tim Taler, Prodannyy smekh (1970)

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3/10

No. Nonono.

This is just to forget just after watching. They transformed a special series to fit the expectations from today - or what they think the expectationas are.

Just go for the original with its uique style, athmosphere and soundtrack from a time when they dared to go a new direction.