The devil with the three golden hairs (2013)
The devil with the three golden hairs is a fairy tale film from the ARD series Six in One Stroke , which was produced by SWR with HR participation for the 2013 Christmas program. The film is based on the fairy tale of the same name by the Brothers Grimm .
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In a kingdom in the village of Ammenried a boy with a lucky bonnet is born. The midwife prophesies to the parents, poor small farmers, wealth and happiness for the child; one day it might even marry the king's daughter. The news of the child of fortune spreads quickly in the kingdom and finally reaches King Ottokar. The king, engaged in alchemy research, is obsessed with making gold . He seeks the life of the lucky child. On the pretext of wanting to take care of his upbringing and finally found a playmate for Princess Isabell, he takes the child away from its parents. He puts the child in a basket by the river and hopes that it will perish in the falls. However, it is saved by the blacksmith's wife , who gives it the name Felix. The blacksmith and his wife, who had long since wanted a child in vain, see the child as a sign of God and raise it. Felix grew up in the village of Sohlbach, charmed people with his violin playing and made them happy with it.
King Ottokar is now on the go looking for an old book by the alchemists, which is kept by the monks in the Morbach monastery . In a village inn he meets Felix and his parents. The king recognizes from the story of his life that the child he abandoned survived. He now tries again to bring Felix to death with the help of devious tricks. He sends Felix to the castle with a letter; there he should play on the occasion of the princess's birthday.
On the way to the castle, Felix gets lost in a forest, where he meets insurgents who want to kill the king because he is wasting the people's money on his senseless research. That night, the rebels found the king's letter with Felix, in which King Ottokar had ordered the murder of the child of fortune immediately after his arrival at the castle. They decide to outsmart the king, let Felix go and send him on with a forged letter. Princess Isabell is to marry Felix, the bearer of the letter. That's the letter. Isabell, spoiled, snooty, bitchy, initially refuses; however, the wedding ceremony is finally performed by the castle priest. Upon his return, King Ottokar finds out that he has been tricked. From his trip he brought back an old book from the monks from the 1st millennium. Then you need the three golden hairs of the devil to make gold . Felix should bring him this golden hair; he should prove that he was a lucky child.
Princess Isabell, enchanted by Felix's violin playing at night, asks her father to spare Felix the trip over the Jordan to the devil. When King Ottokar refuses, she renounces her father and follows Felix disguised as a hunter. Isabell shares her provisions with him and together they make their way to the devil. Felix confesses to the hunter on their way together that he loves the princess, her gait, her neck, her eyes. You reach the city of Füllkrug. At the well they meet a woman with a child. This tells them that the devil has visited their beautiful city; the well that gave wine and water has dried up. She cannot show them the way to the devil, but she sends them east. There is supposed to be a place there with a tree where golden apples grow. Once there, they find that the tree has not produced any fruit for years. An old man sends her to an old oak tree where six paths cross. There they have to find the seventh way that leads to the Jordan. Through a crack in the tree they enter the kingdom of the devil, the Jordan, the river that separates the world of the living from the world of the dead. There Felix is put across the river by the ferryman .
In the hell arrived, Felix meets the grandmother of the devil, who asks him to tell her his life story. The grandmother realizes that Felix has taken the path to the devil out of love for the princess. Love, she philosophizes, is the only force strong enough to oppose evil. She hides Felix when the devil arrives. He appears accompanied by Princess Isabell, who wanted to swim through the Jordan. Isabell succeeds in extracting his secrets from the devil. In the jug he placed a toad at the bottom of the well, which poisoned the well; the residents would only have to go down and get the toad out. The tree would bear golden fruit again if it were cut down. And the ferryman would simply have to push the ferryman's pole into the hand of the next passenger and he would be free. When the devil fell asleep for a moment, the devil's grandmother helped them escape because she realized that Felix and Isabell truly love each other. On their escape they meet King Ottokar at the Jordan, who has made his own way to the devil. The ferryman puts the oar in his hand; from now on King Ottokar is condemned to take over the office of ferryman. The ferryman is free. On their way back, Felix and Isabell keep their promises of rescue that they had given to the inhabitants of the east and in Füllkrug on the way there.
In the end, Felix and Isabell let the devil's three golden hairs, which the devil's grandmother had pulled out and given them with, fly, as a sign that the devil has no place in their house.
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The film was shot in June and July 2013 in the Beuren open-air museum near Esslingen am Neckar , at Teck Castle near Kirchheim unter Teck , in the Bebenhausen monastery in Tübingen , in the Schönbuch nature park southwest of Stuttgart , at the former Reusten quarry west of Tübingen, in the Falkensteiner Höhle between Grabenstetten and Bad Urach and at Ehrenfels Castle in Hayingen .
The film was released on DVD on November 14, 2013, and was first broadcast on December 26, 2013.
Web links
- The Devil with the Three Golden Hairs in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The devil with the three golden hairs in the online film database
- The devil with the three golden hairs at Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg
Individual evidence
- ↑ Filming Locations - The Devil with the Three Golden Hairs. (No longer available online.) In: visitatio.de. Roland Wagner, archived from the original on December 25, 2013 ; Retrieved December 27, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
