The pearl maiden
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The pearl maiden |
| Original title | O perlové panně |
| Country of production | Czech Republic |
| original language | Czech |
| Publishing year | 1997 |
| length | 75 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Vladimír Drha |
| script | Pavel Srut Pavel Sruta |
| music | Lubos Fiser |
| camera | Vladimír Holomek |
| cut | Boris Machytka |
| occupation | |
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The Pearl Maiden (alternative title: The Pearl Princess) is a Czech fairy tale film about the fairytale wonder of a girl crying pearls. The film was made by Tri Bratri, “Studio of the K + K art agency”, as a production for Czech television under Katerina Krjeí and Ivanka Pruchová. The producer was Ilona Jirásková. The film premiered in the Czech Republic on May 8, 1997 . In 1998 the German dubbed version produced on behalf of the MDR was broadcast on ARD . Another German television broadcast took place in KIKA on June 1, 2000. In English-speaking countries, the film is also known as The Pearl Maiden .
action
The black man and his servant
Highwaymen lurk in the forest - the haughty Mr. Cyprian and his fat servant Hubert. A rider comes along - the scoundrels attack him, steal sword, rapier and horse - and the old man, the rider was a knight of Kosa Castle, remains behind, murdered.
The comedians and the dream
In the forest there are also happy people, comedians, Maestro Riccardo, his daughter Linda and a few more. They are rehearsing a piece of Don Quixote under the green canopy of leaves . Linda would like to husband the beautiful dreamer Wendelin from her troop, but Wendelin cheekily disdains the untalented, intrusive Linda. When two riders pass by, the knights Zejdlík and Trumpeta, who live at Kudla Castle, something of the art of acting is presented badly and rightly with many compliments for the riders:
- The principal exposes: Don Quixote, knight from Spain, who once lived and perhaps still lives today, loved Dulcinea, the sweet beauty, the beautiful illusion that may still exist somewhere, and the Don Quixote in the heart or in a picture with himself wearing.
- And Wendelin kneels in front of Linda: Oh, beautiful Dulcinea , what magic transformed your lovely countenance into the sight of a dressed up cleaning lady.
Trumpeta and Zejdlík laughingly offer Wendelin a job after excessive wages when the spectacle gets out of shape; But the dreamer, who reminds the two gentlemen very much of their dreamy lord of the castle Cornelius, answers in the seeming sense of Don Quixote:
- But only where chance or dream lead me and in service I only go for true love.
And when asked, Wendelin, who is curled up in gold, enthusiastically explains what this love looks like:
- It is close when it is far and disappears when I touch it.
Rape of the pearl weeping girl image
Cyprian, the villain, has meanwhile found out through a letter in the looted estate that a treasure can be found at Kudla Castle. There is said to be a portrait of a girl crying pearls, which seems to promise immeasurable wealth to the wicked. He forces his servant and the horse to the castle and pretends to be the nephew and heir of the deceased knight of Kosa on Kudla, the indulgent knight Trumpeta and Zejdlík. Although Trumpeta and Zejdlík quickly recognize the intentions of the black, they indulge in indulging in the pleasures of wine with all five senses . Meanwhile, Cyprian persuades Cornelius, lost in thought, listening to a sweet-sounding song that can only be heard, to show him the mysterious picture: In the high tower, a girl's face is preserved in a picture like a tabernacle in front of burning candles and a pearl lies in the frame . The thief greedily reaches for the pearl. A short time later, the picture is stolen and Cyprian and Hubertus, a rich master and well-behaved servant, wander through the country in the Cornelius picture's coat sack.
Cornelius' wedding
The world is collapsing for Cornelius. He remembers the beautiful girl who was his bride many years ago and whom he had portrayed by a sinister painter. The girl with the dark long hair, the round face and the big sad eyes was afraid of the painter. But the young knight Cornelius wanted to keep the sight of his bride forever. The day after his wedding night the painter and the beautiful bride disappeared without a trace. And they couldn't be found. Since then, Cornelius has been dreaming in front of the picture and - torn back into life by the robbery - the aged knight on his rickety horse Rosinante sets off again to look for the picture, the girl and the deceitful painter. His friends Trumpeta and Zejdlík remain worried about the wine barrels that are so expensive to them.
Wendelin and Luzia
Meanwhile, Wendelin, the young comedian, has arrived in the city to which the thief's pack, Cyprian and Hubert are on their way on their eager search for the living pearl girl. Wendelin demonstrates his tricks on the market square: He strides over the roofs like living weather flags . As the citizens disperse, a narrow skylight is opened above him. And a beautiful girl's face, in which you think you can see the young pearl princess, appears in the frame and throws Wendelin a rose. The young man, enchanted, climbs the window and sees the scenario of a painter's studio in the attic: A dark, bearded magician paints his most beautiful model on an easel. The painter confuses Wendelin, causing him to crash. Frightened, the girl runs to check on him and finds him unconscious.
- Questioningly she speaks to herself: My God, why did I just go to the window, wake up, please wake up, please! Who are you? - And who am I - I no longer know what is dream and what is truth. - Wendelin wakes up and explains: You are both the dream and the truth. Happily the beauty notes: You are alive. And Wendelin answers just as happily: And you smile.
When Wendelin introduces himself to his beautiful woman and asks her for her name, she doesn't know how to answer. The painter who may be her father or her stepfather and who raised her after her mother's untimely death calls her Little Pearl, but she has no name. Because there is something possessive about a name. Quickly and resolutely, Wendelin calls his beautiful Luzia, who drives away the night, because Wendelin loves it when there is light after the night . Happy with her new name, Luzia climbs the attic again.
Don Cornelius della Kudla on the lookout
Cornelius Weg is a Don Quichottiade: He rides past a peasant couple on a hay meadow : He with a scythe , she with a rake - in Cornelius Vision , death in the form of the Grim Reaper pursues his beloved pearl beauty and bitterly hits the angry people. As he looks around, he is confused by the reality of an amicable couple. Riding on, Cornelius sees a laundress hanging up white sheets in a meadow and has the vision that here Cornelius' sweetheart is being innocently pursued by riders in fluttering coats - when Cornelius tears up the laundry, he has to pay the poor laundress amply afterwards. Cornelius finally meets the dope comedians, Linda in oriental tinsel stuff in an amateurish play of a beheading - of course Cornelius believes his loved one must be saved from the guillotine and steps in: Maestro Riccardo, however, appreciates the real Don Quixote . But Cornelius rides on into the city. A gang of robbers rumbles in the inn when Cornelius wants to stop by. Cyprian and his crony have also taken a seat there. At one word from these, the gang attacks knight Cornelius. Wendelin comes in sees the unjust fight and saves Cornelius' life.
The new pearl maiden
The painter has now completed the picture of the beautiful Luzia. He describes to the frightened girl what this picture cost him. The magician kidnapped Luzia's mother after her wedding to paint the magical picture that cries pearls whenever the person pictured sheds real tears . The eyes are the magical connection of this pearl miracle of archetype and image. But Luzia's mother with incomparable sad eyes died in childbed. The daughter is very similar to her, but until she grew up the painter had to wait 20 years to paint another pearl-crying miracle portrait. The black magician wants to give the painting to Luzia, but Luzia is outraged by the lazy, deceitful magic of the picture. The girl demands that this alchemical instrument of power be destroyed. She leaves the old man and follows Wendelin's calls. Then Cyprian finds the attic: In an argument with the magician , Cyprian destroys Luzia's image and thus robs himself of the goals of his greed for gold . The painter disappears as a raven .
Kidnapping and battle for Kudla Castle
Luzia stepped out on the street in search of Wendelin. There she is kidnapped by Cyprian in front of Wendelin's eyes. Cyprian plans to take possession of Kudla Castle with the help of the band of robbers, there he wants to make the pearl girl cry and find pearls in the frame of the picture left to him. Cornelius and Wendelin pursue the kidnappers and the comedians in the forest can find out where Cyprian and Hubert are going with the captured girl. Linda with a new bridegroom at her side can also wish the young and old Don Quixote luck. At Kudla Castle, the two old friends Zejdlík and Trumpeta were worried about Cornelius. Even the indulgent enjoyment of the two could not dispel the heavy thoughts: And Trumpeta, rolling in an empty wine barrel, meditates on what an astronomer once said to him: That the world was thrown into space like a ball and now turns and turns and turns. The drinking buddies cling to pleasure against this swirling force inherent in life, but Cornelius only has dreams . How can the friends help Cornelius? The attack of the robbers sent ahead by Cyprian surprises Trumpeta and Zejdlík in the dark torture chamber of the castle: with a rack, cage and thumb screw they quickly master the bandits. But when Cyprian kills the brave drunkards, they remain unconscious. Everything goes haywire on Kudla until Wendelin and Cornelius arrive. Hubert, similar to the Sancho Panza, is quickly arrested. Cornelius finds Luzia tied up in the tower, next to her the bride's portrait of Cornelius' beautiful wife, Luzia's mother. Cornelius wakes up as if from a dream, understands the context and recognizes Luzia as his daughter. When Wendelin Cyprian is defeated after long and arduous fencing, the wedding of Luzia and Wendelin and the big reunion can finally be celebrated:
Wedding and endless search
At the banquet table, knight Cornelius explains in front of the picture of his wife that the obvious and Luzia and Wendelin find a father:
- Don't I have any eyes in my head: Look at them and the picture - Then Zejdlík: Now, on closer inspection, the whole father ...
Then everyone hears the mystical singing of a woman's voice, which in earlier days could only be heard by Cornelius:
- Girl's face captured in the picture;
- Meerschaum white his skin.
- Hidden forever from life
- like a pearl in a shell.
Trumpeta and Zejdlík tell stories about the happy ending and their unfulfilled hope of finding a pearl at the bottom of a wine jug - a search that is rather not based on the desire for fulfillment, and they ask about the meaning of what happened. Cornelius sums up:
- It cannot explain the love and the sadness and the search, it is important that one found the other: you an old friend and companion, I a young friend and the daughter - now I believe that we will all be happy together on Kudla Find home.
And when Trumpeta, astonished, discovers a pearl at the bottom of his wine carafe and fears that from now on he will always have to drink apple cider, Cornelius consoles with praise of the wine :
- What a divine drop and that is the meaning. The overcome bitterness of life fades to sweetness on the tongue - the ball once thrown into the air, turns and turns as the sun commands it and our love hopes it will.
In the golden evening light on the keep of Kudla Castle , Wendelin and Luzia are happy lovers.
background
The metaphor of the girl crying pearls is universal: Heinrich Heine aestheticizes the pain in the image of pearl tears, Friedrich Rückert speaks of tear pearls, as does Alphonse de Lamartine or Charles Baudelaire to name just a few outstanding examples of this tradition of poetry. In Clemens Brentano's Chronicle of the Traveling Schoolboy , a girl weeping for pearls appears. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart song Abendempfindung renames tears as beads and Johann Pachelbel wrote the Aria eyes sträuet beads tears . In the painted picture of the pearl teardrop, a feeling of sadness is dispelled in the picture of beauty. Herein lies the main idea of the fairy tale film The Pearl Princess , fairy tale models for pearl weeping princesses are z. B. to be found with the Brothers Grimm in the fairy tale Die Gänsehirtin am Brunnen, but here with a completely different storyline from the fairy tale film. Pearl wines and Rose laugh are also subjects of the Greek and Turkish fairy tale. The two central fairy tale motifs, love flaming in front of a picture of a girl, and the weeping of pearls in the film are united in the Belarusian fairy tale: From the virgin with pearl tears, the unfading roses and the golden fish. However, this fairy tale shows a plot that also differs from the fairy tale film, Grimm's The White and the Black Bride . The fairy tale motif of the search for the most beautiful who has disappeared, which alternates between dream and reality, is the fairytale-like guiding principle in the fairy tale film of the pearl princess, in which action motifs from Cervantes ' Don Quixote fit with great naturalness: the fight against the flying laundry, wandering comedians and the in between Reality and dream changing world experience of the great Theatrum mundi ; the film is reflected here as the medium of the image and as the medium of the theater itself and addresses this in the fairy tale motifs of the magical image of girls and the theme of acting in play. This theater within the theater is represented by the Don Quichottiads by Cornelius on the one hand and by the gypsy comedians on the other. The picture with pearl stands in the horizon of classical paintings: Luzia and her mother are portrayed by the malicious painter in pictures that are stylistically in the Venetian Renaissance between the portraits of girls Giovanni Bellini and Titian . Luzia and her mother in the beauty type are very similar to Titian's portraits La Bella , a girl in fur and a girl with a plumed hat. However, the subject of the pearl is always the most famous girl-with-pearl pictures by Jan Vermeer . The early Baroque costume preferences of the fairy tale films, however, are Venetian : silk and velvet in pale brown, gold-colored muted green or black. Cornelius' drapery - old-fashioned compared to his comrades - remains oriented towards the early Renaissance and armaments of the late medieval knightly .
synchronization
The German dubbing was done in the Synchron- und Tonstudio Leipzig GmbH in cooperation with DREFA Produktion und License GmbH on behalf of MDR television in 1998. The German version was directed by Andreas Schreiber, based on the dialogue book by Klaus Zippel . The production had Frank Egner and editors had Ulrike idol .
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Pearl princess | Karolína Sochorová | Manja Doering |
| Cornelius | Jaromír Hanzlík | Wolfgang Ostberg |
| Vendelin | Filip Blažek | Alexander Doering |
| Cyprian | Radek Žák | Peter Reinhardt |
| Hubert | Filip Rajmont | Tobias Müller |
| Ritter beer mug | Ota Jirák | Bert Franzke |
| Knight Trumpet | Jan Hartl | Walter Jackel |
| painter | Radovan Lukavský | Wolfgang Winkler |
| maestro | Jiří Hálek | Wolfgang Jakob |
| Linda | Michaela Kuklová | Conny Wolter |
Reviews
“Cornelius is an old knight who lives at Kudla Castle with his friends, the knights Zeydlik and Trumpet. He stares sadly at the image of a dark-haired young beauty who is said to have real pearls running down her cheeks when she cries. She is Cornelius' wife who was kidnapped by an evil wizard the day after their wedding. But now even his beloved painting is stolen. The culprit is the Black Knight Zyprian and Cornelius has the image searched across the country. The boy Wendelin, who ran away from a group of comedians, befriends a girl who looks exactly like the girl in the painting. And this Luzia is really the daughter of the Pearl Maiden and King Cornelius. Wendelin and Luzia fall in love ... "
“The picture of his beloved wife, who was kidnapped the day after the wedding, was stolen from an old knight. While looking for him across the country, a young comedian falls in love with a girl he meets in the woods. He does not yet know that it is the knight's daughter. Fairy tale film in which, despite all the drama, everything turns out for the better. "
literature
- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra: The ingenious Junker Don Quixote from the Mancha . Translated from Spanish by Ludwig Braunfels. Winkler Weltliteratur (WWL), The Blue Series; Artemis & Winkler, Düsseldorf / Zurich 2008, ISBN 978-3-538-06354-9 .
Web links
- The beads mermaid in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Pearl Maiden in the online film database
- Film photos of The Pearl Maiden on cefapa.com
- Film photos on ČSFD.cz
- Film photos on cinema.de
- The pearl maiden on fdb.cz
Individual evidence
- ↑ Heine: Every night in a dream
- ↑ Rückert: Heaven has wept a tear
- ↑ Lamartine: La Sagesse (teardrop metaphor in verses 43-47)
- ↑ Baudelaire: To a Madonna . In: The Flowers of Evil
- ^ Mozart: Evening sensation
- ↑ Pachelbel: Eyes shed pearl tears
- ↑ fairy tale motif pearl wines . In: Kurt Derung: Märchenlexikon . With reference to the fairy tale types Aarne Thompsonindex 403, 403 *, 480, 486
- ↑ Johann Georg Hahn: About the girl who laughs roses and weeps pearls . In: Greek and Albanian fairy tales
- ↑ Kurt Derungs describes this fairy tale under the fairy tale type AT 403, in which a king falls in love with the image of a beauty and this girl (not the image) can also cry pearls
- ↑ G. Bellini: Madonna
- ↑ Titian: La Bella
- ↑ Titian: Girl in Furs
- ↑ Titian: Girl with a Feather Hat
- ↑ Vermeer: The Perlenwägerin , Vermeer: Girl a pearl necklace holding , Vermeer: Girl with a Pearl Earring
- ↑ The information on the German dubbing is taken from the credits for Die Perlenprinzessin which were broadcast on ARD in 1998
- ↑ The Pearl Virgin at prisma-online.de (online film database)
- ↑ The Pearl Maiden. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .