The singing, ringing tree (2016)
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| Original title | The singing, ringing tree |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2016 |
| length | 60 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
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| Director | Wolfgang Eissler |
| script | Gabriele Circle |
| production | Milena Maitz |
| music | Marian Lux |
| camera | Cornelius Plache |
| cut | Vincent Assmann |
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The singing, ringing tree is a remake of the DEFA classic from 1957 for the ARD fairy tale film series Six in One Stroke . The film is based on motifs by the Brothers Grimm and the template by Anne Geelhaar .
action
At the beginning, the prince meets a young woman and a nasty little man in the market. The short conversations with both of them are not particularly friendly, but the prince falls in love with the princess, who, at her father's request, is to marry a prince who is appropriate to her status, but out of arrogance she refuses all suitors. Even the prince of the market is free for her. She asks him to bring to her an enchanted little tree that begins to sing and resound with true love. He agrees and after a long search finds this little tree. But since it is guarded by an evil forest spirit, which he had already met at the market, the prince has to enter into a trade in order to be able to bring it to the princess.
When the sapling does not begin to sing and sound, the princess chases the prince away and he has to realize that she is hard-hearted and haughty and cannot love. However, he keeps his word and takes on the service of the forest spirit, from which he can only be released if he manages to split 10 loads of wood. However, by magic this is impossible. The greedy princess desperately wants to own the tree and sends her father to fetch the tree back. He also meets the forest spirit and receives the tree from him on condition that he brings him the creature that greets him first when he returns. The king agrees because he is sure that his dog would be the first to meet him. When he then returns to the castle with the tree, the impatient princess unexpectedly welcomes him first. Reluctantly, she now has to go to the forest spirit, where she now meets the prince, who doesn’t like the snooty princess.
The prince has his human form, but behaves more like a bear and the princess has lost her beauty, because the forest spirit has enchanted both. His realm is bounded by an invisible wall so that nobody can get in or out. The princess, who has not yet noticed that she is on her own here and no one will serve her, behaves extremely repugnant to the prince. Only slowly does she become aware of her ugliness and is happy to have her little dog with her, who doesn't care what his mistress looks like. Just as she is beginning to get on a little with the prince, the forest spirit tries to prevent this. However, this only brings the two closer to each other. The princess learns to be grateful, amiable and humble and thereby regains her old beauty bit by bit. The curse is gone and the princess can go back to the castle. When she hears the little tree singing and ringing in the castle garden, it is clear to her that she truly loves the prince. So he too is released from the spell of the forest spirit, and both become a happy couple.
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The remake was produced by rbb and SR . The film was made from June 14 to July 7, 2016 in the Brandenburg state capital Potsdam (at the Belvedere on the Klausberg in Sanssouci Park and in rooms including the dance hall of Babelsberg Palace in the park of the same name in the Babelsberg district of Potsdam ), in the former Chorin monastery and in Berlin and Saxony-Anhalt in the Harz Mountains ( Hamburg coat of arms with the Teufelsloch near Timmenrode , Tierra del Fuego near Blankenburg, sand caves near Blankenburg, Bodetal , Teufelsmauer (Harz) near Weddersleben ).
Christel Bodenstein , who played the princess in the DEFA film, can be seen here in the role of the herb woman. There is also a picture of her from the old film as a portrait of the queen. The TV premiere took place on December 25, 2016.
Reviews
Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv said appreciatively: “The film, which with its humorous mixture of fairy tales and romantic comedy manages the trick of being equally attractive for young and old, impresses with its wit, irony and (psychologically) complex morality. The film is also aesthetically pleasing like no other of the ARD's 42 fairy tale films. The comedy-fairytale handling of language is exemplary thanks to the script and the main actors. "
The TV Spielfilm editorial team gave the fairy tale a "thumbs up" rating without comment.
Web links
- The Singing Ringing Tree in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The singing, ringing tree at rbb-online
- The singing, ringing tree at Fernsehserien.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ PNN: It sings and sounds again Potsdamer Latest News from July 1, 2016, accessed on July 10, 2016
- ↑ rbb: 6 in one fell swoop - Märchenfilm Deutschland 2016: The singing, sounding tree rbb-online from December 25, 2016, accessed on July 10, 2016
- ↑ Sandstone caves at blankenburg-tourismus.de, accessed on February 15, 2017.
- ↑ rbb: rbb and SR film “The singing, sounding tree” rbb, accessed on June 21, 2016
- ↑ PNN: It sings and sounds again Potsdamer Latest News from July 1, 2016, accessed on July 10, 2016
- ↑ The singing, ringing tree at fernsehserien.de. Retrieved December 25, 2016.
- ^ Rainer Tittelbach : Jytte-Merle Böhrnsen, Lucas Prisor, Kreis, Eißler. A cinema classic obliges film criticism on tittelbach.tv, accessed on February 16, 2017.
- ↑ TV Spielfilm : Film review at TV-Spielfilm.de, accessed on February 16, 2017.
