Directed by Jimmy Hayward and Steve Martino with the Ice Age animation team, the children’s book of the same name by Theodor Geisel, also known as Dr. Seuss, reaches the screen. Christoph Maria Herbst and Anke Engelke provide voices for the German version. Jim Carrey, Steve Carell and Carol Burnett lead the original voice cast.
Behind Horton the elephant, The Wave rolls into second place. The film adaptation of Morton Rhue’s classic drew 270,000 viewers. To explain the origins of dictatorship to his class, a secondary-school teacher played by Jürgen Vogel undertakes an experiment that quickly gets out of control. Rhue’s book is based on a real experiment conducted in Palo Alto, California, in 1967. Napola director Dennis Gansel transferred the events to the present day and a fictional Berlin school.
Earth at 215,000 admissions falls to third place. More than 2.4 million people have now seen the nature documentary.
Roland Emmerich’s 10,000 BC, the previous week’s leader, loses ground. Its 167,000 viewers are enough for fourth place. Dance film Step Up 2: The Streets follows with 152,000 tickets sold.
