Felidae

To stay sane and nice, NEVER trust a germans animation movie!

Nah, I think, I choose another introduction for this topic...

As far as I know, a lot of british people had a great childhood. They watched Disney and Beatrix Potter and Watership Down...
No, honestly, I heard that a lot of peoples childhood included Watership Down :'D
I read from experiences with that movie as young as being 5 years old, due to the fact that the BBFC (British Board of Film Classification) had rated the movie U (suitable for all), making parents believe that this was just another sweet childrens movie.
And so a lot of children saw bunnies getting attacked and killed by dogs, bunnies, falcons, humans and whatever came along.

But hey, you learn from this, such a thing wouldn't happen again, right? You would make sure that your kids only watch nice movies, right?
WRONG.
German children actually were "endangered" to go through that two times.
I myself watched Watership Down with 7, my sister had been 5 and screamed during the whole movie (my mom had been in the garden, so nobody knew our horror).
And when I was 9, there came a german movie from 1994 on television for the first time.
The description said, it is a animation. About cats. A cat is a detective, researching a dark mystery case. Well, it said "FSK 12" (FSK = Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle der Filmwirtschaft = Voluntary Self Regulation of the Movie Industry), meaning that the viewer should at least be 12, but the FSK is more a suggestion for parents then anything and hardly any parents take it serious as long as it doesn't say FSK 18.
And since my family loves cats since generations, my mom was thrilled and made us watch it (while going shopping, since she saw me as old enough to watch the house for a while).

If you think, Watership Down is the horror for a child, then watch the german animation movie Felidae and imagine being 7 (like my sister had been).

Felidae is a movie, made after the book "Felidae" from Akif Pirinçci, a immigrant from Turkey and a successful german novelist.
The movie is one of the rare movies were it actually stays extremly close to the book without any major changes. And while the book had (obviously) only been read by adults, the movie was mainly watched by children (and the few who knew the book already).
And it is indeed pretty much about a cat, named Francis, that moves into a new city and encounters a lot of weird things happening that he wants to stop.
It is the most expencive german animation movie, since it had cost 15 million Mark (which would be about 9 million Euros, considering the changes on the Stock Markets over the last years) and has some of the most fluid and realistic depictions of cats of all times. It had been translated in spanish and english, but never became well-known anywhere (not even in Germany). The main song is sung by Boy George.

I won't spoil anything about the movie other then that it is actually a cat movie full of cruelity, aggression, gore, angst and (even though in a lot less amount then the rest) sex. With cats. About cats.
Yeah...
So Greece totally knows what he is doing by refusing to watch any german animation movie about cats. Because you just never know (since the book series actually has eight equally brutal novels that could all be animated, if wanted).


IF YOU WANT TO WATCH THE MOVIE:
Felidae in german dub with english subtitles (I recommend this one, because the english one actually changes things of the movie and also sounds pretty bored and cheesy)
Felidae in english dub



And you thought, Germanys porn movies were weird.
Honestly, they at least wouldn't have given me three years of nightmares about singing cat corpses hanging on strings :'D