Cinderella (1947)

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Movie
German title Cinderella
Original title Золушка
(Solushka)
Country of production Soviet Union
original language Russian
Publishing year 1947
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Nadezhda Kosheverova
Mikhail Shapiro
script Yevgeny Black
production Lenfilm
music Antonio Spadawekkija
camera Yevgeny Shapiro
occupation

Cinderella (original title: Russian Золушка , Soluschka ) is a Soviet fairy tale film by Nadezhda Kosheverova and Mikhail Shapiro from 1947 based on the fairy tale Cinderella .

action

One day a king is holding a ball in his kingdom , to which the forester and his wife and their two daughters Anna and Mariana from their first marriage also go. His biological daughter, who is still too young for the ball, is given work by her stepmother for a whole month. Only when Cschenbrödel has done this is she allowed to watch the dancers from the royal park through the palace window.

A fairy then appears to the hard-working Cinderella, who prompts the animals in the area to do the job. She turns a pumpkin into a carriage, four white mice into four white horses, a rat into a coachman, and Cinderella's worn-out things into a pretty dress so she can attend the ball. She also receives a pair of crystal shoes from the fairy's apprentice. However, she must be home by midnight, because then all the changed things would change back.

When she arrives at the ball, Cschenbrödel is not recognized by her family. Impressed by her beauty, her singing and dancing as well as her understanding, the prince falls in love with her. But shortly before twelve the beautiful has to leave the ball in a rush, which she loses one of her crystal shoes. Since they cannot be found anywhere, the king sends his soldiers across the country to find the love of the prince again with the help of the crystal shoe he has found. The one to whom the shoe would fit should be the bride of the prince.

When the soldiers arrive at the forester's hut, the stepmother's daughters try to put on their crystal shoes. After this fails, Cschenbrödel is summoned and forced to use her skillful fingers to squeeze the shoe of her stepsister Anna's foot. The stepmother then goes with her two daughters to the king's palace, where she wants to demand the marriage between the prince and Anna. Once there, Anna is supposed to perform a dance with the Marquis Pas de trois, which, however, leads to the improperly fitting shoe coming off and the cheater being exposed. Mariana's attempt to slip into the shoe fails again, whereupon the king asks the stepmother if she doesn't have another daughter to see if the shoe would fit. Then the father appears together with Cinderella, who is recognized as the beautiful and thus becomes the bride of the prince.

background

Cinderella was released in Soviet cinemas on May 16, 1947 . The film was shown in German cinemas on November 14, 1947 and on August 18, 1973 it was shown for the first time on DFF 1 on East German television .

criticism

For the lexicon of international film , Cinderella was a "coarse, theatrical and intrusive didactic adaptation" of the Grimm fairy tale, "which does not do justice to the original".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information on the publication on kino-teatr.ru , accessed on January 5, 2017
  2. ↑ a b Cinderella. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 5, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used