The blue light (1976)

Movie
Original title	the blue light
Country of production	GDR
original language	German
Publishing year	1976
length	82 minutes
Age rating	FSK o. A.
Rod
Director	Iris Gusner
script	Dieter Scharfenberg (scenario) Iris Gusner
production	DEFA , KAG "Johannisthal"
music	Gerhard Rosenfeld
camera	Jürgen Lenz
cut	Helga Krause
occupation
Viktor Semyonov : Hans (dubbed by Jaecki Schwarz!) Fred Delmare : Little man Katharina Thalbach : Princess Helmut Strasbourg : King Blanche Kommerell : Anne Marylu Poolman : witch Christa Löser : Chambermaid Jaecki Schwarz : Knut Günter Schubert : Robbers Kurt Radeke : Landlord Carl Heinz Choynski : General Pedro Hebenstreit : Executioner Jürgen Hölzel : Guardian Hasso von Lenski : Post Heinz Wilfried Pucher : Hermann Joachim Schönitz : Conc

The blue light is a DEFA fairy tale film by Iris Gusner from 1976. The film, made in the DEFA studios of the GDR , is based on Grimm's fairy tale The Blue Light .

The remake of the fairy tale by Carsten Fiebeler was produced in 2010 by the Hessischer Rundfunk in cooperation with the Kinderfilm production company in the ARD series " Six at a stroke ".

action

The farmer Hans went to war as a soldier. Returned and cheated of his wages by his king, he makes his way home. Then he meets a witch who asks him to fetch a light from the well for her. He keeps it when the witch tries to betray him and discovers its magical power. When the light is ignited, a little man appears who has to serve the owner of the light, but he can only do as much as he trusts himself. Having grown courageous, Hans went to the king once more to ask for his pay. He is turned away again, and so he kidnaps his daughter, who has to run the household for him. The king's captors catch him, the gallows has already been set up, and a robber's accidentally fired cannon shot saves his life.

background

The DEFA film, which interprets Grimm's original The Blue Light in the sense of the prevailing ideology , was Iris Gusner's first directorial work and her only fairy tale film.

The premiere in the cinema was on March 14, 1976, on December 17, 1977 it was broadcast for the first time on the GDR television station DFF 1 .

criticism

“Here, not only was the absolute cultural heritage taken over, but also processed and enriched in a meaningful and positive way; The fantastic and realistic given more space - a film that goes far beyond the content of fairy tales in terms of message and effect. The film relates to our realistic today, touches on the problem of human exploitation. What the little man put into the room at the beginning of the film is unobtrusively proven: He who knows how to use it has power ... "

- Ingeborg Zimmerling : film mirror

literature

• The blue light . In: Ingelore König, Dieter Wiedemann, Lothar Wolf (eds.): Between Marx and Muck. DEFA films for children . Henschel, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-89487-234-9 , pp. 215-216.

Web links

• The blue light in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• The blue light in the online film database
• The blue light at filmportal.de
• The blue light . In the DEFA Foundation's film database.
• Images from the fairy tale film "The Blue Light". ( DEFA , 1976) In: D. Glaser's private homepage , accessed on February 23, 2020.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ingeborg Zimmerling; in: Filmspiegel , 3/1976, Berlin