Rabbit Max, a juvenile shoplifter from a big city, gets trapped in an old-fashioned boarding school in the middle of the woods. With the help of rabbit girl Emmy he acquires the Easter Rabbits secret skills, battles a sneaky family of foxes and learns a lot about friendship on the way.
Inspired by the children’s book classic by Fritz Koch-Gotha & Albert Sixtus.
Genre family entertainment, CG-animated feature film
Length, Format 76 min., 2K/HD
Target audience families; girls and boys aged 6-11 (accompanied by their parents)
Production 2015-2017
Funded by FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, MFG Filmförderung, Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, Filmstiftung NRW, Filmförderungsanstalt, Deutscher Filmförderfonds, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, MEDIA
Distributor LEONINE Distribution
World Sales Sola Media
Written by Katja Grübel and Dagmar Rehbinder
Director Ute von Münchow-Pohl
Art Director Heiko Hentschel
Character Design Gerlinde Godelmann
German Cast Noah Levi (Max), Senta Berger (Madame Hermione), Friedrich von Thun (Mr. Fritz), Melina Witez (Emmy) and many more
Development Executives Katharina Wicke, Jan Strathmann, Claudio Winter
Producer Dirk Beinhold
Production Manager Tobias Weingärtner
Executive Producer Valentin Greulich, Sebastian Runschke
Co-Production Company Virgin Lands
Festivals World Premiere at Berlin International Film Festival, Giffoni Film Festival, TIFF KIDS, Anima Festival Bruxelles, ITFS 2017, Goldener Spatz, Zlin Film Festival, Gijon Int. Film Festival, Schlingel Festival, Zurich Film Festival, Munich Film Festival, Children’s Film Carnivals, Cinanima, Mumbai FF, Brazils Kids Film Festival, 11th Int. Children’s Film Festival Bangladesh, Les Tolles Filantes
Awards Audience Award at Zurich Film Festival, Children and Media Award “White Elephant” at Munich Filmfest as best animated feature, Audience Award at Anima Festival in Brussels and Audience Award at Les Tolles Filantes
Available on DVD, Blu-Ray, Video on Demand