The girl with the sulfur sticks (2013)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The girl with the sulfur sticks |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2013 |
| length | 60 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
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| Director | Uwe Janson |
| script | David Ungureit |
| production |
Martin Hofmann for Askania Media Filmproduktion |
| music |
Michael Klaukien , Andreas Lonardoni |
| camera | Marcus Stotz |
| cut | Melania Singer |
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The girl with the sulfur sticks is a German fairy tale film from 2013. It is based on the fairy tale The little girl with the sulfur sticks by the Danish poet Hans Christian Andersen . The production came about as part of the sixth season of the fairy tale film series Six in One Stroke , which Erste Deutsche Fernsehen first broadcast in the 2013 Christmas program.
action
The girl Inga lives with her little friend Emil and other minors in an orphanage. Its cold-hearted leader, Mrs. Landfried, lets the children work in order to enrich themselves under the pretext of improving living conditions in the home. Anyone who does not provide the required service will be punished with a stick. On Christmas Day the hungry and freezing children have to sell sulfur sticks at the market in the nearby town . Those who bring home the most pennies will be rewarded with a roasted Christmas goose leg. Inga attracts the attention of the policeman on duty with her courage and her strong voice in the mostly unsuccessful efforts. The magical amulet , in which her deceased parents become visible, gives her additional strength. Since Emil is afraid of the threatened chastisement, Inga selflessly gives him the little money he has earned and goes alone to look for more customers. In the process, she meets an unknown man who is apparently familiar with the fate of her family and who finds comforting words. Instead of returning to the home, she runs to her parents' dilapidated house and takes shelter from the cold with the stranger. In doing so, she forbidden to ignite a stick as a source of heat. Her parents and the living room from earlier days appear for a brief moment, decked out in festive splendor. Meanwhile, Emil informs the helpful gendarme about the conditions in the home and goes with him to search for his missing girlfriend. When they both arrive in front of their house, she is sitting lifeless on the icy floor. Her visions gently accompanied her to death by frostbite in the presence of the stranger, who was revealed as an angel .
A few years later, the now grown-up Emil is the new home manager. In contrast to his predecessor, he takes care of the orphans and gives Mrs. Landfried a second chance as an employee after her release from prison. Emil now wears Inga's amulet and thus remains connected to his former mate. Looking back on the shared past full of privation, she lives on in his memories with her self-sacrificing nature.
Comparison to the literary original
The central motif of a small, poorly dressed girl who has to sell sulfur sticks at the end of the year under threat of corporal punishment was retained in the film adaptation. In contrast to the work by Hans Christian Andersen, the adaptation by screenwriter David Ungureit has an additional framework that takes place on Christmas instead of New Year's Eve. The story of the orphanage also enabled a dramaturgical intervention to provide the tragic end with an optimistic outlook.
The girl's name remains unknown to Andersen, while her name is Inga in the film. In addition, she has sturdy shoes, while the girl in the original fairy tale wears her mother's oversized slippers and loses them at the beginning of the story. This forces her to walk barefoot in the snow, which makes the suffering in the cold even more intense. In the film adaptation, the punishment for unsuccessful sales comes from the home manager instead of her father. Inga does not dream of her grandmother like the figure in Andersen and glides with her into heaven, but sees her parents in the visions after lighting the sulfur sticks. While she is accompanied by her boyfriend Emil in the film adaptation, the girl in the fairy tale is on her own and is not missed after her death. At Andersen's house, she freezes to death in a corner between two houses with red and blue frozen feet, while Inga dies in the remains of her parents' house.
background
The film was produced by Askania Media Filmproduktion on behalf of ARD under the leadership of Rundfunks Berlin-Brandenburg (editor: Sabine Preuschhof) and Saarländischer Rundfunk (editor: Andrea Etspüler ). The film was shot in February and March 2013 at Marquardt Castle near Potsdam and in the Spandau Citadel in Berlin .
It was first broadcast on December 25, 2013 on Das Erste and achieved an audience rating of 2.10 million viewers and a 14.7 percent market share. The DVD release was released on November 14, 2013.
Awards
At the Chicago International Film Festival Television Awards in April 2014, the fairy tale received the silver award in the children's program category .
At the beginning of July 2014, the film won the Children's Media Prize The White Elephant for Best Director TV Film and Best Young TV Actress at the 32nd Munich Film Festival .
The production was also nominated for the 2014 Grimme Prize in the special culture category.
Reviews
“ The girl with the sulfur sticks is the ideal fairy tale for the Christmas ARD series Six in one go . This contemplative, contemplative 60-minute film based on Hans Christian Andersen does not come in the naive, precocious fairy-tale film mode, renounces the unimaginative and-then-and-then dramaturgy and does not (only) turn children into objects of emotion, but opens up to them Eye level. Nuanced child actors, an ambiguous Kunzendorf, an impressive interplay of the trades. "
“The adaptation of the story of the girl with the sulfur sticks stands out so much from this year's offer that the other contributions almost fade. [...] The story may be too dark for small children, especially since the sinister Frau Landfried is angry to the core. But with the help of a little dramaturgical artistic freedom, Ungureit managed to give the film a positive ending without being unfaithful to Andersen. And the image composition is outstanding thanks to some ingenious drives and several surprising perspectives. "
Web links
- The girl with the Schwefelhölzern in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The girl with the sulfur sticks at filmportal.de
- The girl with the sulfur sticks in the online movie database
- The girl with the sulfur sticks at Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for the girl with the sulfur sticks . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , October 2013 (PDF; test number: 141 363 V).
- ^ A b Tilmann P. Gangloff: Unusually gloomy, but outstanding. In: fr-online.de. Frankfurter Rundschau, December 25, 2013, accessed on December 27, 2013 .
- ↑ Filming Locations - The Girl with the Brimstone. (No longer available online.) In: visitatio.de. Roland Wagner, archived from the original on December 27, 2013 ; accessed on December 23, 2019 .
- ↑ "Cinderella" and Co are convincing at Christmas. In: quotenmeter.de. Quota meter, December 28, 2013, accessed December 31, 2013 .
- ↑ Cinema / Chicago Television Awards - 2014 Award Winners. Chicago International Film Festival, accessed December 23, 2019 .
- ^ Munich Film Festival - Prizes & Winners 2014. International Munich Film Weeks, accessed on December 23, 2019 .
- ↑ 50th Grimme Prize 2014 - nominations. Grimme Institute, accessed on December 23, 2019 .
- ↑ The girl with the sulfur sticks. In: tittelbach.tv. Rainer Tittelbach, November 25, 2013, accessed December 27, 2013 .
