Adventure in the magic forest

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Movie
German title Adventure in the magic forest
Original title Морозко
(Morosko)
Country of production Soviet Union
original language Russian
Publishing year 1964
length 82 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Alexander Rou
script Nikolai Erdman ,
Michail Wolpin
production ZFfKuJf "Maxim Gorki"
music Nikolai Budashkin
camera Dmitri Surensky
occupation
synchronization

Adventure in the Magic Forest (reference title: Father Frost - Adventure in the Magic Forest , Adventure in the Magic Forest - Father Frost and Father Frost ; Original title: Russian Морозко , Morosko ) is a Russian fairy tale film by Alexander Rou from 1964, the various characters and stories of Slavic folklore like Father Frost and the witch Baba Yaga .

action

The beautiful young Nastjenka, called Nastja, lives with her father and her wicked stepmother , who takes advantage of her and constantly drives her to work while she pampers and pampers her own, not very handsome daughter Marfuschka. The two girls are of marriageable age, but the stepmother hides and disguises Nastja so that nobody can see how beautiful she is in contrast to Marfuschka. She successfully keeps her husband, Nastjenka's father, under the slipper by repeatedly trying to intimidate him.

Iwan, who has his heart in the right place but is a vain boastful man, lives in another village with his poor old mother. Ivan wants to go out into the world and immediately takes on a couple of robbers whose clubs he throws into the sky. Next he meets a little wood man who wants to play hide and seek with him and finally gives him a bow and arrows. However, Ivan is far too proud to say thank you for it and replies that he should look for a bear that might throw itself at his feet.

Ivan reads on a large stone that he should follow a little feather to find his happiness. He then shoots a bird, plucks a feather from it and lets the wind carry it. The feather leads him to a river, where he meets Nastja, with whom he immediately falls in love. At first Nastja doesn't want to know anything about him because she can't stand his boasting. When he wants to shoot a mother bear in order to impress her, Nastja puts an empty bucket of water over his head and at the same time the forest man turns him into a bear. Since Ivan incorrectly attributes this to Nastja, he insults her terribly and quickly runs away. Nastja remains completely disturbed.

Ivan is just reading on the big stone that being enchanted by a bear is the punishment for his vanity when the wood man meets him again and suggests that he should do something good for others. Ivan understands the little man's words to mean that all he has to do is do one good deed to break the spell. But this should come from the heart and not just serve the goal of getting rid of the magic. So it doesn't help him when he carries an old blind woman home. When he wants to carry the old woman with her stick completely selflessly, the wood man transforms him back and also transfers him back to the place where he met Nastja. Ivan has given up hope and wants to throw himself into the river. However, he sees his picture in the water and is overjoyed and full of enthusiasm in search of Nastja.

In the meantime it has become winter and Nastja is rejected by her stepmother and abandoned by her father in the forest, since a possible suitor for Marfuschka was only interested in Nastja. Nastja soon meets Father Frost there in the cold winter forest , who brings her to his house and to safety. Only his scepter should never touch her, he explains, because it turns all things into ice .

On his way through the woods, Ivan meets the witch Baba Yaga and her walking house. Hoping for help from the witch in his search, he orders her hut several times to turn around so that he can talk to Baba Jaga. The witch is finally tired of it and uses her magic to give some nearby trees the order to take Ivan to her hut, where she wants to put him in the oven. Ivan manages to outsmart the witch so that she ends up in the oven herself (but does not burn). Baba Jaga gives up on the pretense and gives Ivan a pig that has been transformed into a sleigh, which is supposed to show him the way to Nastja. However, the sled pig just drives senselessly around and Ivan cannot follow him.

Meanwhile, the witch sends out her black cat to kill Ivan's loved one. The animal enters Father Frost's hut and makes Nastja touch his scepter, which turns her into ice. In the meantime, however, Iwan has found his way to Father Frost's house with the help of Nastja's dog, who also went looking for her. When Ivan finds the frozen Nastja, he apologizes to her for his insults. His sincere love can eventually melt the ice and bring her back to life. When Nastja realizes how much Iwan has changed, she also falls in love with the young man and together they travel back to Nastja's homeland after Father Frost gave both of them a rich gift of precious stones.

The stepmother is outraged and also sends Marfuschka into the forest to find a rich man. The ugly and lazy daughter, however, behaves rude and demanding towards Father Frost and therefore returns to the mockery of the whole village alone on a children's sleigh pulled by pigs and with a chest full of ravens . For the first time the angry stepmother is speechless.

Meanwhile, Ivan and Nastjenka are attacked in the forest by the robbers who were paid by Baba Yaga to kill them. In the middle of the fight, however, the clubs that Ivan had thrown away a year earlier fall from the sky and incapacitate the attackers. In the end, the two young people can finally get married.

Background, changes, publication

The original title of the film, Морозко (Morosko) is one of the Russian names of Father Frost. This is because the original intention was to film the fairy tale of Father Frost. However, since the expansion of the story (several Russian fairy tales were combined into one plot) the role of Father Frost in the film is comparatively small, the title became in German in to Adventure in the Magic Forest . Other fairy tales that were picked up in the film are, for example, The old boletus and Ivan the bear .

Due to the title change, the entire opening credits (except for the music) were changed in Germany. In the original, the opening credits run against the background of winter motifs (e.g. ice crystals), in German you can see a green forest at this point.

The film premiered on March 24, 1965 in the Soviet Union . On December 17, 1965, it was shown in GDR cinemas . The film was shown on German television for the first time on January 7, 1967 on the DDR 1 station on East German television. In 1994 he appeared on video .

DVD

On January 5, 2005, the film was released under the title Father Frost - Adventure in the Magic Forest by Icestorm Entertainment GmbH within the series "The most beautiful fairy tale classics in Russian film history" with a German soundtrack on DVD in Dolby Digital 1.0 sound and 4: 3 aspect ratio issued. This is the shortened DEFA synchronized version.

Only the Russian DVD from the Ruscico Moscow company contains the digitally restored version in the now uncut Russian original version. It contains the beggar scene and a scene at the beginning of the film in which Ivan strolls through the forest singing.

synchronization

The German dubbed version by DEFA Studio for Synchronization was released in GDR cinemas on December 17, 1965. Annette wrote the dubbed script for you , Hilde Gruner was responsible for the dialogue direction .

role German speaker
Jack Frost Heinz Suhr
Nastyenka Madeleine Lierck
Ivan Erik Veldre
Marfuschka Katja Paryla
Nastenka's father Fritz Links
Stepmother Else Wolz
Baba Yaga Ruth Kommerell

criticism

“A Russian folk tale populated by wizards, witches and robbers, in which nature also plays an active role. Clearly differentiating between good and bad, captivatingly staged and played in an appealing way, the film is not only entertaining for children. "

- Lexicon of International Films

Award

At the Children's Film Festival in Venice, the film was awarded as the best children's film of all time.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. Adventure in the Magic Forest on pp. 171–174 in 77 Fairy Tale Films - A Guide for Young and Old (ed.) Eberhard Berger, Joachim Giera u. a. Henschel Verlag GmbH; Berlin 1990; ISBN 3-362-00447-4
  2. ↑ Information on the publication on kino-teatr.ru , accessed on January 5, 2017
  3. ↑ a b Adventure in the magic forest. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 5, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  4. ↑ Father Frost - Adventures in the Magic Forest DVD case