Trick or Treaters (Die drei Räuber): what age is it for? 5 alone, 4 with a parent
5 alone, 4 with a parent.
In France, zinema would say 5.
Alone, or with you
Alone from 5; from 4, with an adult or by talking about it afterwards.
The sweet spot: around 5-7, the age at which you enjoy being a little afraid of robbers and understand that a small girl can turn them around; at seven, you talk about the orphanage and the treasure. Why a sweet spot?
What it's about
Three robbers pilfer from the countryside until they are charmed by a young orphan girl.
Why 5
- Our readingA picture book on screen: three robbers whose axe and blunderbuss never hurt anyone, and an orphanage aunt whose nightmare of red sugar and a door with teeth is the one real fright, a minute or two. Five years old, four with a parent for that nightmare.reading
- The orphanage aunt and her red-sugar nightmareThe orphanage director, clawed hands and hooked nose, puts the children to work in her beet-sugar factory and locks up those who disobey; Tiffany dreams of it, red walls, a door with teeth, a tentacled monster, a minute or two that is very graphic. The three robbers, black silhouettes with white eyes under their hats, are frightening at first and turn into good guys.
- An axe, a blunderbuss, pepperStagecoach attacks open and close the film: the axe splits the wheels, the blunderbuss fires in the air, the pepper makes the horses sneeze, the travellers run away; nobody is hurt. Tiffany says her parents are dead, we never see them. A lot of night, a little girl alone in a cave full of gold.
What the movie brings
- Tomi Ungerer's picture book as it is: the flat colours, the hats, the blue night, and the little girl who is afraid of nothing.
- An orphan who turns three robbers around and empties an orphanage: courage as cheek.
- What do you do with a treasure? The question asked at five, and the robbers' answer is a castle for lost children.
Watching it together
Stay for the factory nightmare; say beforehand that the aunt loses in the end and the children get out.
at 5 and up
The robbers stole from the rich and kept everything: did Tiffany make them good, or were they already a little good?
See the facts
For the same age, on zinema
- WALL·E 5, 4 with a parent
- Mon voisin Totoro 5, 4 with a parent
The latest guides
A zinema reading from September 22, 2026 · the whole movie, watched in full · the age by zinema's rules for the US and France, and a human reading · report an error · how this guide is made