The Goose Girl (1977)

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Movie
Original title The goosemaid
Heinrich Vogeler - Illustration Die Gänsemagd.jpg
Country of production Switzerland
original language German
Publishing year 1977
length 25 minutes
Age rating FSK o. A.
Rod
Director Rudolf Jugert
script Heinz Bothe-Pelzer
production Ullstein AV
music Peter Thomas
camera Friedl Behn-Grund ,
Lothar Dreher
cut Alice Ludwig-Rasch
occupation

The Goose Girl is a short Swiss fairy tale film by Rudolf Jugert from 1977. It is based on Grimm's fairy tale The Goose Girl .

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The queen entrusts her daughter to a maid who is supposed to accompany her to a distant land, where she has been promised to a king's son. As they say goodbye, which both find it difficult, she assures the sad princess that she has chosen a faithful maid who will obediently serve her and that she is giving her beloved talking horse Fallada with her. Fallada will see that she does not suffer harm. In addition, the Queen gives her daughter a silk handkerchief with three drops of her heart's blood. As long as she possesses this, no one will have power over her. On the way the maid shows her true colors and does not want to be of service to the princess.

"If you want to drink, drink alone", I don't like being your maid any more, she replies when she is supposed to hand the princess her golden cup. Shortly afterwards she takes the handkerchief with the three drops of blood and orders the princess to ride the donkey from now on, Fallada is her right. When the princess takes a bath in the river, she takes hold of her clothes and asks her to wear her clothes, because from now on, be the princess. With a dagger in front of her, she forces the princess to swear that she will not tell anyone at the royal court who the real princess is. Fallada must also make such a promise.

At court, the scheming maid is greeted by the young prince with all due respect. The real princess is demoted to the goose girl. Together with the shepherd boy, Kürdchen, she has to tend the geese, while the maid is doing well. Fearing that her lie might get out, she orders Fallada's head to be cut off. When the hangman comes with the hatchet, the real princess desperately begs him not to harm the horse. The pleading appeals to him and he gives in. However, it must remain a secret of both of them. The princess then hides Fallada in a wooden shed in the forest. In response to her complaint: "Oh, poor Fallada, you are trapped here", the loyal animal replies: "Oh poor princess, you have been betrayed if your mother knew that, her heart would burst."

The princess manages to make Kürdchen's hat swirl through the air in such a way that it is difficult for him to catch it again. In addition she sings: “Run Kürdchen, run!” The shepherd boy is uncomfortable, so that he complains to the king that the goose girl is not quite right in her head. He also tells him that she talked to a horse in the forest and that she answered it. The king gets to the bottom of the matter and shortly afterwards calls the "goose girl" to him. He wants to know who she really is. She shouldn't tell him that, nor should she complain about her suffering to anyone else. She swore that in the open air. The king says that if she is not allowed to, please tell the fireplace about it. So he learns what happened to the princess. He announced to the young prince that a masked party would be held, with the false bride on his right and the real bride on his left. That's how it happens. The king wants to know from the alleged princess what someone is worth who rises above his class, pretends to be something better and places himself above noble people. Your answer will come quickly. He is not worth anything better than that he is stripped stark naked and put into a barrel with sharp nails on the inside. When it is then stuck in the barrel, a horse should be harnessed to it and dragged to death. “You have just spoken your own judgment,” the king announced, “so it should be done.” The screaming maid is pulled out of the hall by the hangman.

The princess thanks the king for having redeemed her. If her mother knew that, her heart would burst with joy. She doesn't forget her loyal horse Fallada, who from now on will also live in the castle, where he should be fine. The princess even stands up for the wicked maid, the king agrees that her punishment will be modified by being chased away with disgrace and disgrace.

Production and Background

On behalf of the Swiss television station DRS, Rudolf Jugert produced a series of short films based on the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm in 1971, including The Goose Girl .

The fairy tale film was produced by Swiss television for German and Rhaeto-Romanic Switzerland (SF DRS) (Zurich). The production company was Ullstein AV Produktions- und Vertriebs GmbH (Berlin).

The film, shot in 1971, only had its premiere on February 27, 1977.

Alena Sörje (also Arlene Sörje) appeared under the name Alena Penz in various sex films , for example in Franz Antel's wife-landlady films .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f The goose girl at filmportal.de
  2. ↑ Die Gänsemagd ( Memento of the original dated December 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) 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. at neanderpeople.npage.de. Retrieved November 22, 2013.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / neanderpeople.npage.de
  3. ↑ Die Gänsemagd ( Memento of the original dated December 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) 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. at maerchenfilm.pytalhost.com. Retrieved November 22, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / maerchenfilm.pytalhost.com
  4. ↑ From TV fairy tales to naked film business at imagevenue.com. Retrieved November 22, 2013.