Little and Big Klaus (1971)

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Movie
Original title Little and big Klaus
Country of production GDR
original language German
Publishing year 1971
length 67 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Celino white lead
script Wera kitchen master
Claus kitchen master
production DEFA
for German television broadcasting
music Reiner Hornig
camera Horst Hardt
cut Erika Lehmphul
occupation

Little and Big Klaus (West German distribution title: Klaus und Kläuschen ) is a German television film from 1971 . The film made in the DEFA studios in the GDR is an adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale Little Klaus and Big Klaus .

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Little Klaus is a small farmer who lives with his wife and seven children in poor conditions. From Monday to Saturday he works on the farm of the great Klaus, who is a large farmer . Big Klaus lends him two horses only on Sundays and little Klaus can work his field with them and his own horse “Hans”. He drives them by calling out "all my horses". He annoys big Klaus so that he kills little Klaus' horse. In order to be able to continue to feed the family, little Klaus decides to sell the skin of his horse. On the way to the market, he wants to spend the night in the miller's house due to the heavy rain , but only his wife is there and sends him away. So he crawls on the floor of the barn and watches how the miller's wife receives the sexton , with whom she has a relationship, and prepares him a sumptuous meal. When the miller unexpectedly comes home, the miller's wife hides the food in the oven and the sexton in a box. Little Klaus asks the miller for a place to sleep and something to eat; this receives him. Little Klaus puts his sack with the horse's hide under the table. He claims there is a wizard in it and proves it by predicting the food will be in the oven and the sexton (claiming he is the devil ) in the box. The miller is so impressed that he buys little Klaus' sack for plenty of goods, the box and a bushel of money. On the way home, little Klaus releases the sexton, who gives him his shoes out of gratitude. After big Klaus finds out how much little Klaus has got for the horse's hide, he slaughters his animals and tries to sell them on the market at such a high price. There he is chased away because of his asking price. He furiously tries to drown little Klaus in a sack in the river. But the shepherd frees him and they fill the sack with stones so that the great Klaus thinks he has thrown his enemy into the river. A little later, however, he finds it intact on a meadow next to the flock of sheep. Little Klaus reports that he met a fairy at the bottom of the river who gave him the animals. Because the great Klaus wants this too, he drowns himself in the river.

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