The wig maker
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The wig maker |
| Original title | The Periwig Maker |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1999 |
| length | 15 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Steffen Schäffler |
| script | Steffen Schäffler Annette Schäffler |
| production | Annette Schäffler for Ideal Standard Film |
| music | Christian Heyne |
| cut | Annette Schäffler Steffen Schäffler |
The wig maker is a German animated short film by Steffen Schäffler from 1999.
action
London in September 1665: The plague has the city firmly under its grip and a wig maker has been alone in his apartment for days. He keeps a diary in which he writes down his thoughts. Most of all, he is worried about the air in the house, since he cannot ventilate. From his window he sees a mother dying of the plague in the house opposite and her corpse being let down through the window. Her little daughter, who has long copper-red hair, runs outside but is brought back to the apartment by a guard. The child's doll remains lying on the street and so the girl secretly climbs out of the window at night to fetch the doll. He stays outside the night, warms himself by a fireplace and plays with his doll in the wigmaker's shop window. It is already coughing up the cough of the plague sufferers and is hoping that the wig maker will let it into its home, but he remains unmoved. The girl is brought back to the apartment by the guard. The apartment is now being boarded up.
The wigmaker sees the girl as an accusing vision in his house - she tells him that she is ill and has been brought back to the apartment to die. He ignored her for fear of the disease. In fact, the wig maker suspects that the plague is transmitted as an infection. When the girl's body is removed, however, he forgets all caution. He goes to the mortuary pit and cuts the girl's hair. Back at his house, he made a wig out of the copper-red hair, which he wore a little later. His cough shows that he has now contracted the plague himself.
production
The wig maker is based on texts from the book The Plague in London by Daniel Defoe . The credits end with a quote from Samuel Pepys ' diary:
“And it is a wonder what will be the fashion after the plague is done as to periwigs, for nobody will dare to buy any haire for fear of the infection - that it had been cut off of the heads of people dead of the plague. ”
“What kind of fashion in wigs will come when the plague is over? Now nobody dares to buy hair for fear it might have come from a plague corpse. "
It was the film debut of Steffen Schäffler, whose sister Annette Schäffler produced the film. While the set and decorations were created in Germany with the help of the parents of Annette and Steffen Schäffler, the film itself was shot in London. It was realized as a puppet trick in stop motion . The dolls are from Mackinnon & Saunders, the animation was done by Phil Dale . Individual effects were created as a real film (a burning candle on the wigmaker's table) and as a computer trick (a drop of ink that comes off the wigmaker's pen and falls into his diary).
synchronization
| role | Original speaker |
|---|---|
| Wigs maker | Kenneth Branagh |
| Orphan | Alice Fairhall |
Awards
The wigmaker won the jury award for best short film at the 1999 San Sebastián Horror and Fantasy Film Festival. In 2000, the film won the OIAF Award for best professional film debut at the Ottawa International Animation Festival . At the Zagreb World Festival of Animated Films he was also awarded the prize for best film debut in 2000.
The wig maker was nominated in 2001 for an Oscar in the category “ Best Animated Short Film ”, but could not prevail against Father and Daughter . The film also received a BAFTA nomination in 2000 for “ Best Animated Short Film ”.
Web links
- The wig maker in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The wig maker on bcdb.com
- The wig maker on awn.com
Individual evidence
- ^ Translation from: Samuel Pepys: Diary from 17th century London . Selected, translated and edited by Helmut Winter. Philipp Reclam jun., Stuttgart 1998, p. 268.
- ↑ See mellart.com ( Memento of the original from January 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ See awn.com ( Memento of the original from March 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
