The fairy tale castle

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Movie
Original title The fairy tale castle
Country of production GDR
original language German
Publishing year 1961
length 54 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
Rod
Director Herrmann Zschoche
script Herrmann Zschoche
production DEFA , KAG "Red Circle"
music Helmut Nier
camera Karl Plintzner
cut Bärbel Weigel
occupation

The fairy-tale castle is a German children's film of the DEFA of Herrmann Zschoche from 1961. It is based on the picture book story , the fairy tale mold of Fred Rodrian .

action

The brothers Peter, Günter and Klaus set off to find the object of their dreams. Günter and Klaus want to find a combine harvester and a tractor , but give up after a short time. The youngest, Peter, is looking for the fairytale castle he read about in his book and sets out on his own. A pony runs towards him in a meadow, which resembles the pony in his book. He calls it Pedro and rides off with him. On the way he meets a shepherd who shows him the way to the rose castle, where Pedro obviously comes from.

On his trip, Peter meets a crying girl who is supposed to fetch water for farmers, but who does not dare to walk past a barking dog at the inn. Peter helps her and calms the dog down. Peter picks up the apples for a boy who was supposed to bring apples to the workers, but lost them on the way, and fetches a bucket that has fallen into the well for another boy. He later arrives at the fairytale castle and inspects the rooms. In each room he finds seven beds with seven pairs of shoes in front of the door. High in the tower, a door decorated with roses shows him to a sleeping girl and everything else seems like a fairy tale. Peter continues to search the rooms, nibbles on chocolate pudding from a plate and sits down on one of the beds.

In reality, the castle is a holiday camp for young pioneers . Numerous children soon appear and Peter is chased. It can only be caught after numerous successful hiding places. When the children find out that he has brought the runaway Pedro back to the castle, they take him into their midst. The young pioneers are allowed to celebrate the last harvested field together with the workers in the nearby small town. Peter made a significant contribution to the success of the harvest, as his various aid actions were aimed at the workers: the drinking water from the inn, the apples as food and the well water for cooling the harvesting machines. He is allowed to ride the tractor and combine harvester as a thank you, but leaves that to his brothers, who have since joined him. It is decided that Peter can raise the harvest crown. At the end, everyone celebrates a big harvest festival in the village.

production

The fortress Heldburg, in the film the "fairytale castle"

The fairytale castle was shot in Heldburg . The fairytale castle, actually the rose castle in the film, was found in the Veste Heldburg .

The film premiered on June 1, 1961 in Heldburg. It was Herrmann Zschoche's directorial debut. On February 26, 1976, the film ran for the first time on DFF 1 on television.

criticism

Contemporary critics judged that in his directorial debut, Zschoche "was still too hesitant to exhaust the poetry and fantasy inherent in the subject matter."

Frank-Burkhard Habel described it as pleasant "that he [Zschoche] did not work with intrusive ideologization, although the demand for it was publicly made."

For the lexicon of international films , The Fairy Tale Castle was a "structural children's film with a clear educational, rock-solid intention."

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Charlotte Czygan: … as for adults, only better! In: Deutsche Filmkunst , No. 9, 1961.
  2. ↑ Habel, p. 728.
  3. ↑ The fairytale castle. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed August 7, 2018 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used