There Are No Blue Mice
(Blaue Mäuse gibt es nicht)

Blaue Mäuse gibt es nicht © DEFA-Stiftung, Wolfgang Ebert
| Georgi, Klaus |
| Georgi, Klaus |
| Georgi, Katja |
| Cleve, Wera |
| Münch, Ingeborg |
| Schöne, Hans |
| Hörig, Günter |
| Philipp, Horst |
| Kurt Höfken |
| DEFA Studio for Animation Films |
Synopsis
Two little mice are forbidden by their parents from playing with the differently looking blue mouse: All respectable mice are gray! We don't want anything to do with you! But the little mice ignore their parents' demands and play all together in a painter’s studio, jumping into pots of paint in different colors! The horrified parents are suddenly presented with three colorful mice, and they no longer know which ones are their own children. A story about accepting differences and how prejudices may be built on false assumptions.
Commentary
“A bourgeois mouse couple is shown who has to accept instruction from their own children and are forced to move in reality without preconceived judgments. The indirect narrative method of making a behavioural study of the child-parent relationship tangible via a family of mice was [officially] disparaged and dismissed as a ‘non-realistic’ creative approach. Skillful graphic solutions and ideas were even labeled as ‘straining after formal effects’.” —Jörg Herrmann, Die Trick-Fabrik
Awards
| 2018 | Generation Special, Berlin International Film Festival, Germany |
| 2014 | Colorful DEFA Animation Parade, Short Film Program, Zeughauskino, Berlin, Germany |
| 2015 | Retrospective 60 Years of Dresden Magic, Potsdam, Germany |
| 1960 | VII. Sydney International Film Festival, Australia |

