The Goose Girl (1957)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The goosemaid |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1957 |
| length | 78 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Fritz Genschow |
| script | Fritz Genschow Ruth Hoffmann Renée Stobrawa |
| production | Fritz Genschow film |
| music | Richard Stauch |
| camera | Gerhard Huttula |
| cut | Erika Petrick |
| occupation | |
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The Goose Girl is a German fairy tale film by and with Fritz Genschow from 1957. It is based on the fairy tale of the same name by the Brothers Grimm .
action
A queen lives in a kingdom who wants to marry off her daughter Rosemargret to a prince from the neighboring kingdom. So she sends the princess on a trip with the maid Malice. However, she comes up with a plan how she can get into the kingdom instead of the princess and marry the prince herself. First she sends a carrier pigeon with a fake message to the neighboring kingdom so that she has more time to carry out her plan.
Since Rosemargret's mother cannot accompany her on the trip, she gives her daughter a handkerchief with three drops of her blood. In addition she speaks the words:
“Be faithful, dear child, your husband.
Be loyal to your people.
And stand true to your every word, then everything bad that is done to you will turn into good. "
The queen had a gray horse that was said to be able to speak. She gives this loyal animal to the princess. After the passenger train sets off, Malice persuades the princess to test the prince to see if he would really love her. So they swapped clothes so that Malice can pretend to be a princess and Rosemargret has time to judge the prince. Since they were promised each other in childhood and actually didn't know each other, he wouldn't be able to recognize them either. They send the court who accompanies their procession back to the frontier.
No sooner had they switched roles than Malice shows her true colors and treats the princess like a maid. She also throws the Queen Mother's handkerchief into the water. She makes the princess promise not to talk to anyone about their exchange, otherwise she would tell the prince that Rosemargret was planning to cheat on him.
Arrived at the prince's castle, the false princess is greeted and immediately discredits her maid. The king should assign her to work, she doesn't want to see her any more. In addition, the gray horse Fallada is said to be killed because it allegedly dropped her. In truth, Malice was just afraid the horse would betray her. The prince complies with his bride's wish. He has the horse killed and the alleged chambermaid assigned to goose herd. When Rosemargret wants to go through the city gate to the goose pasture the next day, Falada's head appears at the gate and longingly she complains of her suffering to the animal. Kürtchen, whom she was assigned to help, watches her secretly and can hardly believe what he had just seen. He is also amazed at the beautiful golden hair that the new goose girl wears under her headscarf and asks for a curl. But Rosemargret sings to the wind that he should wear Kürtchen's hat so that he would leave her alone. Kürtchen then complains to the king, who wants to investigate the matter. He hides at the city gate and can thus watch for himself how the goose girl talks to the horse's head and how it addresses her with "Virgin Queen". He follows Kürtchen and the maid and can see for himself how the wind, bewitched with a song, tries to carry away the boy's hat. So he addresses the goose girl, but she refers to the oath she took. The wise king says, however, that she had just sworn not to reveal anything to anyone, so she should talk to the oven, which is located near the city wall. Rosemargret does so and so the king learns the real story.
The next day, when the wedding is due to take place, the king uses a ruse to convict the false princess. He lets Rosemargret put on the wedding dress and leads her to the dance as a bridesmaid. Malice betrays herself furiously and the people choose Rosemargret as their new bride. When Rosemargret's mother appears, who was worried, Malice is convicted of the flayer, who is supposed to put her in a barrel. She asks for degrees that Rosemargret will grant her, but she has to live in solitude for five years as a punishment. At the end the gray Falada appears, because since he is a real magic horse, he cannot be killed at all.
production
The goose girl was filmed in Glienicke, Marienfelde, Schloss Monheim, Atelier Wannsee and Schloss Charlottenburg, among others. The shooting took place from September 4, 1957 to October 5, 1957. The film premiered on December 1, 1957 at the Gloria Palast .
The Goose Girl is Fritz Genschow's last fairy tale film for the cinema.
criticism
The film-dienst wrote: "Partly staged in a playful, operetta-like manner, partly dissolved into atmospheric images, the studio production typical of the time does not do justice to the original."
Web links
- The Goose Girl at the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The goose girl in the online film database
- The goose girl at filmportal.de
- The goose girl at croco-film.de (with press material)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Length of the film at spielfilm.de, accessed on November 7, 2016.
- ↑ See filmportal.de
- ↑ a b c d cf. maerchenfilm.pytalhost.com ( memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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.
- ↑ The Goose Girl. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
