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Castles and eccentric counts, rats, an evil countess and an intelligent 13-year-old girl (Kadja Klier) are the main components of this children's film from Jurgen Brauer. Gritta's father, the count, is always coming up with some hair-brained invention that never seems to have any practical connection with reality. While the young girl can live with that, matters take a much more serious turn when her impulsive father falls in love with a nasty countess. The countess joins up with a decidedly unholy abbess and plans to imprison Gritta in the abbess' cloister. Just when everything looks darkest, Gritta's good friends, the rats, put their incisors to inspired use and help her save the day.