Alice in Wonderland (1949)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Alice in Wonderland |
| Original title | Alice au pays des Merveilles |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1949 |
| length | 83 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Dallas Bower |
| script |
Edward Eliscu Albert E. Lewin Henry Myers |
| production | Lou Bunin |
| music | Sol Kaplan |
| camera |
Gerald Gibbs Claude Renoir |
| cut |
Marity Cléris Denys de La Patellière |
| occupation | |
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Alice in Wonderland (Original title: Alice au pays des merveilles ) is a French musical film from 1949 based on Lewis Carroll 's fantasy novel of the same name . Directed by Dallas Bower .
action
Alice Liddell is the daughter of Dr. Liddell, the Dean of Oxford, has two other daughters, Edith and Lorena. Dr. For some time now, Liddle has disapproved of the activities of one of his university teachers, Charles Dodgson , who practices provocative plays with the students and believes that the chiming of the venerable church is out of date and needs to be changed.
One day Queen Victoria visits in person and the dean's children are instructed to stay in their rooms. So that they are not too sad about not being allowed to meet the Queen, Dodgson later tells them the story of Alice and a strange country in which strange people do strange things. While Edith and Lorena find this boring and do not want to hear the story, Alice listens very closely. After Dodgson agrees that animals and nonsense would also appear in this story - which the two sisters would like - they too are ready to listen.
While Dodgson is narrating, Alice falls asleep and suddenly finds herself in the story. She is sleeping under a tree when a large white rabbit walks past her. Burning with curiosity, she runs after the rabbit right into its den. There it falls strangely slowly down a well. When she gets there, she finds herself in the palace of the Queen of Hearts. At first nobody seems to notice, but suddenly there is a table in the middle of the room. The contents of a bottle with a note on it: "Drink me" makes Alice shrink to a height of 25 centimeters. Now Alice can get into the beautiful garden, which she has already discovered, but could not go in because the door there was too small. After she finds a cookie that says "Eat me", she suddenly grows oversized and hits the ceiling with her head. Then she finds a fan that makes her smaller again. So small that she suddenly finds herself in a sea of her own tears that she had just cried when she was so big. You meet a talking mouse that nearly drowned and rescues Alice. After this good deed, the water drains away.
Alice manages to grow again, but is now stuck in a house that is far too small for her. Fortunately, she finds another cookie that will make her shrink. Now she is pursued by a group of strange animals, led by the white rabbit, and flees into a forest. There she meets a caterpillar, to which she complains of her suffering, being confused about what has happened to her recently. Then she meets a Cheshire Cat who accompanies her to a house where a baby suddenly turns into a pig.
Alice wanders back and forth in the strange world looking for a solution to get out of there. In doing so, she reaches the bottom of the sea, where a flock of crabs perform a dance, and in the end she meets the Queen of Hearts in the palace. She loves to chop off the heads of her subjects when they disobey. Alice is supposed to play cricket with her first , but is then accused of stealing the Queen's cherry tarts. You will be thrown into prison, where already a sheep and a turtle on its execution wait and has to fear being executed. The King of Hearts insists on a trial and has witnesses heard. The white rabbit acts as a public prosecutor and would like to see the stranger convicted. In a meaningless letter, he says he has evidence against Alice. But a witness is found who testifies that the Jack of Hearts stole the cakes. It becomes a mess and Alice finds herself on the bank of the lake where she fell asleep and cannot believe that it was all just a dream.
background
The scenes set in England are shown with real actors, but those set in Wonderland with puppets (except for Alice). Just as in The Wizard of Oz , certain characters in the dream world have counterparts in the real world and are also spoken by the corresponding actors.
Stephen Murray can be seen as Lewis Carroll and heard as the voice of the Jack of Hearts , Pamela Brown as Queen Victoria and the voice of the Queen of Hearts. The stop-motion dolls were made by Louis Bunin .
publication
The film opened in the USA in 1951, almost at the same time as the cartoon Alice in Wonderland by the Disney studios. As a result, there was a lawsuit between Disney and the distribution company of Alice au pays des Merveilles (Souvaine Selective Pictures).
Both films flopped in US cinemas, but Disney made its version fame by releasing two albums based on the film and broadcasting it on national television. The Dallas Bower version, on the other hand, was only shown on local TV channels. In Germany, the film was only released on DVD on November 17, 2011.
criticism
“At the same time as Walt Disney's animated film version of the same name, but technically but not to the same extent impressive adaptation of the classic subject by Lewis Carroll. The passages set in Alice's dream world [...] fascinate with their highly idiosyncratic artistic charm. "
Web links
- Alice in Wonderland in the Internet Movie Database (English)