Sadakos Geschichte Senbazuru

In the organizer's words:

千羽づる Senbazuru

Director: KÔYAMA Seijirô
1989, 96 minutes, original German, 16 mm

The film is based on a true story and depicts the short life of schoolgirl Sasaki Sadako, who was two and a half years old at the time of the atomic bombing. The girl became a symbol for innocent victims of the war, numerous books have been published about her life story and there is a monument to her memory in Hiroshima Peace Park.

In April 1954, Sadako is in the sixth grade and enjoys going to school, she especially loves sports. But a few months later she caught a cold and her lymph glands swelled up. A specialist diagnoses leukemia, caused by the nuclear radiation she was exposed to as a small child. Sadako begins to fold paper cranes, because according to popular belief, anyone who folds 1000 paper cranes (senbazuru) will be granted a wish by the gods.

Price information:

Admission free