The devil with the three golden hairs (2009)
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| Original title | The devil with the three golden hairs |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2009 |
| length | 74 minutes |
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| Director | Hans-Günther Bücking |
| script | Bettina Janis |
| music | Hannes M. Schalle |
| camera | Hans-Günther Bücking |
| cut | Zaz Montana |
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The devil with the three golden hairs is a German fairy tale film from 2009 . It is based on the fairy tale of the same name by the Brothers Grimm and was produced by ZDF in co-production with Provobis , Moviepool and Moonlake Entertainment for the film series Märchenperlen .
action
The king rides with his entourage to the poor peasants of his empire to collect taxes. In a remote house in a village he finds a blind old woman who is said to be able to see into the future. She lives in her house with her newborn grandson, whose parents recently died of Frieselfieber . She prophesies to the king that the boy will marry the king’s just-born daughter, because he came out of the womb with a bonnet, which is a sign of it. The king takes the child with him under the pretext of taking good care of him. However, when he is alone on the way home to his castle, he puts it in a wicker basket in the river. The child is drifting along the river in the basket and is rescued at a mill by the miller and his miller's wife, who have obviously just lost their own child; they take it and raise the boy.
Seventeen years later, the now grown-up boy, Hans, is sitting in a tree and observing the king in a clearing, whose horse was frightened by a snake and ran over. He jumps on the horse and can calm it down and save the king. He invites him to his family in the mill. The parents recognize him as the king and casually tell him how Hans came to see them. Of course, the king immediately recognizes which boy this is. Fearing the prophecy, he sent Hans off with a letter to the queen, in which he let her know that she should have Hans executed immediately. Hans immediately sets off and meets robbers in the forest. He asks her for a place to sleep. However, they consider him to be a spy of the king and lock him up. You take the letter from him and read it. Now that they are convinced that Hans is not a spy and that they want to get rid of the king, they write a new letter in which it says that the queen should immediately marry Hans to the princess. So they send the ignorant Hans on the next morning with the letter they have exchanged.
On the way, Hans meets Prince Willibald's carriage, the actual future husband of the princess. He succeeds in traveling on the carriage unnoticed, and so he reaches the castle at the same time as the prince. He can deliver the supposed letter from the king and is immediately engaged to the princess and is supposed to marry her the next day. Prince Willibald is sent home again. Shortly after the engagement, the king returns to court and realizes the betrayal. He suspects Hans had forged the letter and wants to have him executed. The queen, however, convinces him that he cannot because the engagement has already taken place. In order to get rid of Hans anyway, the king sends him to hell to cut off the devil's three golden hairs. If he can bring them to him, he can marry the princess.
With the help of a falcon, Hans sets off. He comes to a village where the well has dried up and the fields wither. He is told that only the devil knows why. He promises to find out why and continues on his way. Shortly afterwards Hans comes to an inn where nothing is going on, the bread is dry, the soup is watery and the apple tree, which once bore golden apples, is no longer yielding. Here, too, he is told that only the devil knows why. Here, too, Hans promises to find out the solution to the riddle and continues on his way to hell. Arriving at a river, he meets a taciturn ferryman, from whom he can coax that he always has to go back and forth without relieving himself and cannot stop, and why only the devil knows. Hans also promises to bring the solution to his problem with him on the way back.
Arriving in hell, Hans meets the devil's grandmother, who is immediately enthusiastic about the handsome and courageous young man. After helping her catch a fly, she promises to help him get the three golden hairs and solve his puzzles. While eating and half asleep, she coaxes the devil's secrets and cuts his hair. Hans succeeds in getting her hair off and flees from the devil. On the way back, he tells the ferryman that he is free if he gives his staff to the next one who wants to run over, because from then on he has to run over. Back in the restaurant, he tells the people how they can get their apple tree to bear fruit again: the roots of the tree are gnawed by mice, the residents catch the mice, and immediately the tree begins to bear golden apples again. As a reward, Hans receives one of the apples and continues on his way to his Isabella, who in the meantime is to be married again to Prince Willibald, who has already traveled with his valet and this time also with his mother.
In the village with the dry well, he tells people that the well has dried up because a toad is blocking it. As a reward for his help, he receives a horse, but also learns of Isabella and Willibald's planned wedding. He rides quickly towards the castle. He can outsmart and shake off the devil who is now hunting him. He arrives at the castle just in time to prevent the wedding and to become Princess Isabella's husband himself. The king is enthusiastic about the noble steed and the golden apple, but says Hans would be an idiot because he didn't bring any more with him. Hans agrees and says that only someone who is not an idiot can do this. The king immediately asks how he gets to the devil and Hans explains the way to him and sends him to the ferryman. Prince Willibald and his mother leave and Hans' parents, the miller and miller's wife, are brought to the wedding. The king, who has meanwhile arrived at the river, receives his oar from the ferryman, giving him his freedom and the king his just punishment.
Differences to the fairy tale of the Brothers Grimm
- The fairy tale begins with the birth of the child, in the film with the discovery by the king.
- In the fairy tale the child was born with a happy skin, which enables him to turn everything for the better in his life and to marry the daughter of the king one day, in the film it is a bonnet that brought him out of the womb and only the marriage with the princess is discussed.
- With the Brothers Grimm, the king buys the child from the poor parents, in the film the parents have died and the king takes the child from his grandmother.
- In the fairy tale 14 years have passed until the king comes to the mill, in the film it is 17.
- In the fairy tale the well that used to give wine has dried up. In the film it is a "normal" well that has just dried up.
- In the fairy tale, the devil's grandmother turns Hans into an ant and hides him in the hem of her skirt, in the film she just hides him in a corner of the cave.
- In the fairy tale the mice and the toad are killed, in the film they are only captured.
- In the fairy tale, Hans deliberately sends the king to the ferryman, under the pretext that gold is in abundance on the other bank. In the film this happens reactively because the king is greedy, wants horses and golden apples and Hans asks how he got to hell.
background
The shooting took place from June 3, 2009 to June 27, 2009 in Altenstein (there, among others, the Altensteiner Höhle and Altensteiner Park ), Erfurt and the surrounding area, as well as at the Kranichfeld Upper Castle in Thuringia . The TV premiere took place on December 26, 2009. The first broadcast saw 2.01 million viewers.
Reviews
Tilmann P. Gangloff from tittelbach.tv praises this film and writes: “The ZDF adaptation of“ The Devil with the Three Golden Hairs ”with its gloomy imagery is close to the spirit of the original, but the film adaptation by Hans-Günther Bücking works therefore joyless in comparison with the fairy tales of the ARD. Visually, the hero's journey is definitely a pleasure, on the other hand the young couple in the film looks a bit boring, and Oliver Korittke and Fritz Karl don't keep what their names promise. "
Kino.de judges somewhat cautiously: “While the lovers in the ARD fairy tales are consistently interesting and attractive, the couple in this film (Belà Baptiste, Ina Alice Kopp) is a bit boring; and Oliver Korittke as a rival, who constantly complains about the constant carriage rides, is just a pain in the ass for Hans. "
"(TV) remake of the Grimm fairy tale, which mainly accentuates the 'cross-class' love story."
Trivia
The bodies involved in the Actor Leonard Lansink , Oliver Korittke and Rita Russek play all three main roles in the Wilsberg mysteries of the ZDF .
Web links
- The Devil with the Three Golden Hairs in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Photos for The Devil with the Three Golden Hairs on tvspielfilm.de
- The devil with the three golden hairs on the Provobis Film homepage
Individual evidence
- ↑ The devil with the three golden hairs (FRG 2009) - details of the rotation ( memento of the original from January 3, 2014 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.
- ^ Tilmann P. Gangloff film review on tittelbach.tv, accessed on February 17, 2014.
- ↑ Film review on kino.de, accessed on February 17, 2014.
- ↑ The devil with the three golden hairs in the lexicon of international films
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