DEFA fairy tale film

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In the early 1950s began in the GDR with the production of the DEFA - fantasy films . The films were followed by millions of viewers in the cinema and are therefore among the most important German films . Over the decades, the films developed into cult films and are regularly shown in KiKA - Sunday Fairy Tales and at Christmas time in the third programs . Above all, the cooperative production of Three Hazelnuts for Cinderella (1973) with the ČSSR became well known.

background

DEFA was the first film studio in the four occupation zones to receive a license after 1945, but did not produce any fairy tale films during the occupation . The DEFA children's film production approached the fairy tale heritage only slowly at first, also because the Grimm collection was not undisputed in the Soviet zone of occupation . The fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm appeared on the one hand to be too illusory, romantic and mystical, on the other hand to be too cruel and bloody. In 1948, Wolff von Gordon proposed a film adaptation of the fairy tale The Cold Heart by Wilhelm Hauff to DEFA . It wasn't until two years after the founding of the GDR that the first fairy tale film, The Cold Heart , which is also the first DEFA color film in Agfacolor , was shot under the direction of Paul Verhoeven in the Babelsberg studios in spring and summer 1950, and thanks to 9,779. With an audience of 526 it also became one of the most successful DEFA films ever. In 1953, the audience record was broken with DEFA's second fairy tale film, The Story of Little Muck by Wolfgang Staudte , with 12.9 million moviegoers, which is also due to the elaborate production and the special effects that were not so common at the time . This makes the Wilhelm Hauff film adaptation of the GDR cinema film with the most visitors.

The following fairy tale productions reached an average of four to five million viewers. In 1961 a fairy tale film was banned for the first and last time with a film adaptation based on Hans Christian Andersen , which was entitled The Dress . In July 1989, Hannelore Unterberg's production Verflixtes Misgeschick! , in which Carmen-Maja Antoni plays the title role, the last DEFA fairy tale film shown on the big screen.

Overview of DEFA fairy tale films

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Sabine Hake: Film in Deutschland. History and stories since 1895. Reinbek b. Hamburg 2004, p. 161.
  2. ↑ See Eberhard Berger, Joachim Giera: 77 fairy tale films. A movie guide for young and old. Berlin 1990, p. 19.
  3. ↑ Cf. Kristin Wardetzky: Fairy tales in education and teaching. In: fairytale mirror. Journal for international fairy tale research and fairy tale care. 1/2014, pp. 3-14.
  4. ↑ See Eberhard Berger, Joachim Giera: 77 fairy tale films. A movie guide for young and old. Berlin 1990, p. 19.
  5. ↑ Cf. Joachim Giera: Vom Kohlenmunk-Peter, the little Muck and his people. Fairy tale films from the DEFA film studios. In: Helge Gerndt, Kristin Wardetzky: The art of storytelling. Festschrift for Walter Scherf. Potsdam 2002, pp. 293-300.
  6. ↑ The most successful GDR films in the GDR . Insidekino.com.
  7. ↑ The most successful GDR films in the GDR at Insidekino.com.