![]() ![]() She is illiterate and can’t count, and she doesn’t know how old she is. She came to the ruin, parentless and wearing a long, used coat. In the ruins of an amphitheatre just outside an unnamed city lives Momo, a little girl of mysterious origin. The book won the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 1974. The full title in German ( Momo oder Die seltsame Geschichte von den Zeit-Dieben und von dem Kind, das den Menschen die gestohlene Zeit zurückbrachte) translates to Momo, or the strange story of the time-thieves and the child who brought the stolen time back to the people. It is about the concept of time and how it is used by humans in modern societies. ![]() Momo, also known as The Grey Gentlemen or The Men in Grey, is a fantasy novel by Michael Ende, published in 1973. The German fantasy and children’s author, Michael Ende, and his 1973 novel, Momo or The Men in Grey: ![]() One of those children’s foreign films I watched a very long time ago, born of a children’s book and author with a mind and imagination that was out of this world and so delightful. It came to me suddenly just now, and brought a smile to my face. Watching the video, More, with the grey misshapen men shuffling about their assembly-line and robotic tasks on the factory floor, and the colourless grey tall generic city buildings, I have memories of an old movie from a long time ago flashing across my mind, scenes with mysterious grey men going about their mysterious soul-robbing work and ways in a drab grey city…but I just couldn’t remember what movie it was. ![]()
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