Alice in the land of the magic mirror

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Movie
German title Alice in the land of the magic mirror
Original title Alice Through the Looking-Glass
Country of production Australia
Italy
original language English
Publishing year 1987
length 73 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
Rod
Director Andrea Bresciani
Richard Slapczynski
script Jameson Brewer
production Jameson Brewer
music Todd Hayen
Songs: Will Ryan
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Alice Through the Looking Glass is an Australian - Italian animated film from the year 1987 and is based on Lewis Carroll's children's book Alice through the Looking Glass . The film was directed by Andrea Bresciani and Richard Slapczynski , while Jameson Brewer wrote the script.

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It's a cold winter day. Alice is sitting by the window and stroking her cat Cindy. Since she cannot go outside to play in the snowstorm, she thinks about what she could play inside. When Cindy knocks down the chess pieces, Alice decides that she would like to be a queen. She stands in front of the mirror in the room and dreams of another world that the mirror actually brings her to.

Happy and exuberant, Alice walks across a summer meadow and is welcomed by butterflies. While she is still wondering if there are people in this country, a miraculous ball of fire appears, which turns into the fool Tom Fool. With him she makes her way to the White Queen, who rules this part of the country. You want to ask her if Alice could be a queen too. Tom Fool first tries to amuse the somewhat eccentric White Queen and shows her some tricks, then he introduces her to Alice. After complimenting the queen nicely, she plans to appoint Alice Prime Minister. But she immediately objects that she would rather be queen. So she sends Alice out into the country so that she can take all the exams and then become queen.

Tom Fool accompanies Alice for a while and the first thing they do is slide over a rainbow into the second row, because the whole country is structured like a chess game. In addition, everything is mirrored. Next they encounter a colony of bees, but Alice only sees small flying elephants, which suck the nectar from the flowers with their long trunks. Without further ado she calls them Fantienen. Then they come to a meadow where unicorns and centaurs cavort. While Tom is riding a unicorn, Alice tries to get into the third row on a centaur, but that fails and so Tom calls Pegasus and they fly the distance to a train, which Alice gets on. Tom stays behind and Alice encounters a billy goat who claims to be the president of the railroad, a horse who hates yogurt and a talking newspaper she cannot read because it is printed in mirror writing. So she takes the train and flies over a mountain because there is no tunnel and she drives through the water because there is no bridge. To get to the fifth row, she should take a ferry even though there is no water. Then she meets Tweedledee and Tweedledum and asks them to show her the way to the fifth row. However, the two just argue and send her straight on. At the end of the fourth row, she finds a single door. There she goes through and meets Humpty Dumpty , who thinks he is a dinosaur egg. He accompanies her for a while and shows her huge eggs, all of which he has painted in bright colors. Then he sends her to a suspension bridge, over which she can get to the sixth row. But little green monsters are blocking her way. Fortunately, they are put to flight by a white knight. Together with him she has to cross a mountain range, where she is attacked by dragons. After these have also been driven out, the White Knight says goodbye and goes on his way. Before Alice knows it, Tom Fool will be back and continue protecting her. Just in time, because the Red Queen, to whom Alice is supposed to find her way, sends the Jabberwock to stop the girl. To do this, they want to drive Alice into the swamp to see the hungry crocodiles. But thanks to Tom's magical powers, they get to the eighth row in front of the castle of the malicious Red Queen who rules this part of the country. When she sees Alice, she pulls the drawbridge up. But that doesn't stop Alice and Tom. Alice insists on being crowned queen now. The Red Queen does this reluctantly and tries to harm the girl through her court magician, but Tom always does magic against it. And so he conjures her right out of the castle again, where the servants of the Red Queen want to catch her. However, Alice loses her crown in the process. Chased by the henchmen of the dead queen, they run all the way back in no time until Alice is standing in front of her magic mirror. She says goodbye to Tom and goes backwards through the mirror into her room, where she greets her father, who is just coming home. In the end, Alice doesn't know whether she really experienced it all or only dreamed it ...

Deviations from the original

Large parts of the film consists of Alice and the fool Tom Fool, the journey through some incidents from the original, while Alice ultimately finds an imaginary friend in Tom Fool and the leitmotif consists of logic, illogic and defeat. The film was distributed by Purple Cow Productions . In contrast to the original, Alice Through the Looking-Glass is actually the sequel to the book Alice in Wonderland . However, the film for the book did not appear here until 1988 , one year later.

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