Geschichte vom kleinen Muck

Sultan: Choose what your heart desires, make me a pauper, but free me from these donkey ears!

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Mukrah: You see, there's nothing more valuable in this whole house than that golden spoon. Ah, Besides all my books naturally.
Kleiner Muck: I never use it.

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Sultan: You have the audacity to tell me that the sun comes up earlier in the neighboring country of sultan Wasil Husain than in mine?
Magier: ...since it lies to the east, yes.
Sultan: Get out of my sight! And don't come back until the sun decides differently.
[to the ramudschins:]
Sultan: I counted the slaves in the bath today. There were only 31! I'm not going to have to dry myself, am I?

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Director Wolfgang Staudte was scheduled to direct the film Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder, but due to an incomplete script and disagreements with Bertolt Brecht (the author of the play) the project was laid off. To Staudte, Little Mook was, at first, little more than an interim solution.
At the time of the GDR, this was the number one selling film of the ministry for foreign trade, attracting close to 13 million viewers between 1953 and 1990.
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