Cinderella (1955)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Cinderella |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1955 |
| length | 78 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Fritz Genschow |
| script | Fritz Genschow |
| production | Fritz Genschow Filmproduktion, Berlin |
| music | Richard Stauch |
| camera | Gerhard Huttula |
| cut | Albert Baumeister |
| occupation | |
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Cinderella is a German fairy tale film from 1955. The film is based on the Grimm fairy tale Cinderella .
action
The girl Margit lives on a farm. Her stepmother and her two stepsisters (Hulla and Trulla) are vain and are condescending to them. Your father doesn't notice. So Margit as Cinderella has to do all the work and becomes lonely and desperate. She can only complain of her suffering to the animals on the farm. One day a being appears from the roots of a tree. It is called Quirliquax (played by Werner Stock) and calls for the spirit of the tree; a good fairy - Urla - appears. Together they decide to help Cinderella.
The prince is looking for a wife but cannot find the right one. Quirliquax transforms into a court jester and shows the prince the right way to find one. The prince organizes a folk festival. The two stepsisters want to go to this party too. Quirliquax - he's turned into a hairdresser - blemishes their hair. Cinderella dreams of going to this festival too; but it has to get lentils out of the ashes for the stepmother. The good fairy Urla sends pigeons, the Cinderella peck the lentils from the ashes. Urla conjures up a golden chariot, the farm animals become coachmen and horses, so that Cinderella can go to the festival.
The prince dreams of a girl who looks like Cinderella. At the festival he recognizes Cinderella as the girl of his dream. But Cinderella's dream disappears again; What remains is a golden shoe on the party that she has lost. The prince searches all over the country for the woman who fits this shoe because he wants to marry this woman. Only Cinderella fits the shoe.
background
The shooting took place from July 11, 1955 to August 8, 1955 in the Berlin-Wannsee studio . The prince's castle is on Pfaueninsel . Further exterior shots were taken at Charlottenburg Palace , Grunewald Hunting Lodge , in the Glienicker Volkspark and at the Immanuel Hospital . Waldemar Volkmer created the film structures, producer, director and author Fritz Genschow was also the production manager.
The world premiere took place on September 4, 1955.
Awards
The FBL awarded the film the title valuable .
criticism
Ronald M. Hahn / Volker Jansen and Norbert Stresau note in their dictionary of fantasy films: "The plot has been stretched to include a few dance and song interludes and features characters that do not appear in the literary original."
The film watcher remarked: "A special praise deserves the actor of the court jester, the only one who knew how to breathe life into a fictional supporting character."
The lexicon of international films was less critical: "A fairy tale film that was quite acceptable for its time."
Web links
- Cinderella in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Cinderella in the online film database
- Photos of Cinderella
- Cinderella (film by Fritz Genschow)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cinderella ( Memento of the original from December 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Content, cast and film program (www.maerchenfilm.de; with exact length information)
- ^ Sigrid Scherer, Johannes Kamps, Deutsches Filmmuseum Frankfurt am Main: Märchenwelten: the actor, director and producer Fritz Genschow. Frankfurt, 2005, p. 23
- ^ Alfred Bauer : German feature film Almanach. Volume 2: 1946-1955 , pp. 486 f.
- ↑ a b Cinderella. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 29, 2016 .
- ↑ Ronald M. Hahn , Volker Jansen, Norbert Stresau : Lexicon of Fantasy Films. 650 films from 1900 to 1986 . Heyne, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-453-02273-4 , p. 36.
