
Autorin Helena Wagner (1eS3)
Towards the end of his life Pete spent most days on the porch of his old wooden house. He would sit and gaze at the beauty of the land that surrounded it, his mind drifting, lingering, particular moments in his life reappearing before his inner eye … some had become blurry over the years, others were still astoundingly vivid.
Among all those memories, all the wonderful and painful experiences that he had gathered throughout his life, there was this one day that would stand out from everything else, the day that had changed his life so profoundly.
He just turned sixteen and his mother had presented him with a movie ticket to the Thief of Bagdad. He was looking forward to seeing it. He didn’t go to the movies very often, because he and his mother were short of money. His mother barely made ends meet with her new job as a tailor. Nevertheless she made him this gift for his birthday. The movie he was going to watch was a fantasy film produced by Alexander Korda with the gorgeous actress June Duprez. In addition, since it was a color film and not one of the ordinary black and white films, good entertainment was guaranteed. (weiterlesen…)