Trivia / The Robber Hotzenplotz

• Dawson Casting: Seppel in the 1974 movie is played by 19-year-old Gerhard Acktun. He's supposed to be a preteen boy. Even more egregious in the sequel, where the actors of Kasper and Seppel were 29 and 33 respectively.
• Magnum Opus Dissonance: Preußler worked ten years on Krabat (with breaks). When the darkness of this story was too much, he decided to write something Lighter and Softer instead. It took him just a few weeks to write the first Hotzenplotz book, and he got very surprised by its popularity and the demand for sequels.
• The Other Darrin: The film sequel of 1979 changed the whole casting.

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