DSCHUNGELKIND, a hard-cover book featuring the beautiful face of its author, Sabine Kuegler, at 352 pages (published in 2005) has become one of Germany’s favorite books. It has already sold more than 1.5 million copies and been translated into 33 languages. Since the middle of last month, Dschungelkind, as with many other successful books, has taken to the big screen.

The book tells of the childhood experiences of Sabine (from 1980 to 1989)�