The Sweet Porridge (2018)

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Movie
Original title The sweet porridge
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2018
length 90 minutes
Rod
Director Frank Stoye
script Anja Kömmerling ,
Thomas Brinx
production Ingelore König (kinderfilm GmbH)
music Mathias Rehfeldt
camera Bernd Fischer
cut Wiebke Henrich
occupation

The sweet mash is a German fairy tale film by Frank Stoye from 2018 with Svenja Jung and Merlin Rose in the leading roles. It is based on the fairy tale The Sweet Porridge by the Brothers Grimm . The film is a joint production by ZDF - where it was shown in the Märchenperlen series - and MDR .

action

The country is very hungry and people are miraculously turning into birds instead of starving to death. After one of Jola's sister is turned into a pigeon, Jola goes in search of the legendary pot that makes porridge. In the forest she meets the forest woman Moira, who gives her part of the broken pot. The parts of a sentence are on the pot, but she cannot read herself. Only when an old bard can read her the first part of the sentence and sing an unknown stanza does Jola know that the next shard is on a mountain. On the way she meets Veit, the brother of Count Ruben von Hammerlitz, who is being followed but does not reveal himself to her. Jola finally finds the second shard and lets Veit read the newly found part of the sentence to her.

She now goes to the mistress, who only gives the last shard when Jola decides: to transform her now deceased sister and her deceased mother back again or to receive the shard and thus the pot of porridge.

With a heavy heart, she decides for the pot, but doesn't know the little saying to let it boil. The saying on the potty alone does not help her, she has to go to the forest woman again. Jola learns from her how the spell has to be recited. When the hunters track down Veit, Jola learns of his true identity and feels betrayed. The captors steal the pot from her and bring it to the count. Jola gets to the count because he is holding her two remaining siblings prisoner. To get her free, Jola has to say the magic spell "Cook the potty!" And the pot finally begins to boil porridge. But the count doesn't know how to stop the pot and so the porridge pours over the whole city. He and his loyal followers are washed away by all the pulp from the castle into the forest. Once there, they meet the forest woman. Without many words, she turns the three into cackling chickens. Jola gets her pot back and with the words: "Stand up potty!" She ends the flood of pulp and brings the pot to her poor village. Veit stayed with her and helped her distribute the food. Now nobody has to go hungry anymore and her mother and her little sister are turning back.

background

Building in the Bergstadt Bleiberg open-air museum, a location for the film
Kriebstein Castle, one of the filming locations and location of the film's plot

The shooting took place from April 5 to May 7, 2018 in Saxony in the medieval mountain town of Bleiberg near Frankenberg , at Kriebstein Castle and in the Elbe Sandstone Mountains ; the TV premiere took place on Christmas Eve 2018 on ZDF .

According to the ZDF editor-in-chief Irene Wellershoff , a particular difficulty in developing the fairy tale film and the script on which it was based was that the Brothers Grimm's original fairy tale only offered a very short textual template. It was a matter of “looking for the deep dimension of the fairy tale”, which then had to be designed for a script. The “archetype of the search for the Holy Grail” as a metaphor for the meaning of a filled pot in times of hunger was important in developing the plot, which echoes modern problems. "In a deeper sense, fairy tales are always up-to-date because they address existential problems that have essentially changed little over the centuries."

The music was recorded with the Bulgarian Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Grigor Palikarov .

Reviews

The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm gave the best rating without comment (thumbs up).

Tilmann P. Gangloff from tittelbach.tv said about this fairy tale film: “In contrast to the mostly sunny and colorful ARD fairy tales, the colors are muted, which is realistic but always a bit joyless. The dignified staging fits this; the music is clearly faster than the pictures in places. The experienced screenplay duo Kömmerling and Brinx allowed themselves great artistic freedom when adapting Grimm's fairy tale, but the plot is still quite manageable for a ninety-minute film. "

TVGids writes: “[...] Although a child dies in the fourth minute and the whole film is heavy, the story of greed, lies, trust and love is not a Depri program, but first-class, gripping adventure television. The roles are well cast, everything ends well. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ZDF press portal: ZDF and MDR are making the fairy tale film "Der süße Brei" ", accessed on January 25, 2019
  2. ↑ Falk Bernhardt: Why many cooks sweeten the broth in: Freie Presse from April 14, 2018.
  3. ↑ Filming locations at Mittelachsen.lokal, accessed on February 25, 2019.
  4. ↑ Pauline Lörzer: The look behind the fairy tale film - Irene Wellershoff and "The sweet porridge". In: fairytale mirror. Journal for international fairy tale research and fairy tale care (Ed .: Märchen-Stiftung Walter Kahn), issue 3/2018, page 48 f
  5. ^ Bulgarian Symphony Orchestra . Production list 2018.
  6. ↑ The sweet porridge at tvspielfilm.de , accessed on February 25, 2019.
  7. ^ Tilmann P. Gangloff : Svenja Jung, Merlin Rose, Kömmerling / Brinx, Stoye. A fairy tale in the fictional film format film review at tittelbach.tv , accessed on February 25, 2019.
  8. ↑ The sweet porridge. Retrieved February 27, 2020 .