The peacock feather

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Movie
German title The peacock feather
Original title Pávie pierko
Country of production ČSSR , Federal Republic of Germany
original language Slovak and German
Publishing year 1987
length 100 minutes
Age rating FSK without age restriction
Rod
Director Petr Weigl
script Petr Weigl
production Československá televízia Bratislava
Südwestfunk Baden-Baden
TV 2000 Günter Herbertz
music Vladimír Godár
camera Richard Valenta
cut Karel Kohout
occupation
synchronization

German Dutch

The peacock feather (Czech: Paví pírko ) is a fairy tale film of the Czechoslovak TV, Bratislava, from the cooperation ČSSR / D. The film deals with the subject of the poor charcoal burner boy, whose fate has been determined by a princess, whose royal father tries to thwart this fate in every way possible. In 1987 the film premiered in Czechoslovakia. The German dubbed version was first broadcast on November 18, 1987 on ARD television. The film is also known under the title The Peacock's Feather in English, in French as La Plume de Paon and in Dutch as Veer van een Pauw . The plot of The Peacock Feather filmed the same fairy tale material as the Czech fairy tale film The Three Golden Hairs of the Sun King from 1981.

music

Vladimír Godár's music is well coordinated with the atmosphere of the fairy tale. Part of the film is accompanied by the symphonic poem Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune by Claude Debussy .

actor

The Peacock Princess is embodied by the internationally sought-after actress Eva Vejmělková . With the open flowers in her hair, she looks like Alfons Mucha's allegory of the lily in the peacock feather film . Eva Vejmělková is known as a fairy tale princess from The Light of Love by Henrik Hertz and The Travel Mate by Hans Christian Andersen . Tobias Hoesl has already appeared in fairy tale films as the main actor with Jacob in Frau Holle from 1984 and with King Valemon in Der Eisbärkönig .

action

Confused dreams

A kingdom, a king who always goes hunting with his hunter, a sad queen and a beautiful thoughtful princess, that's how the fairy tale begins. Strange dreams frighten the king. And he entrusts them to his hunter master. The king dreams of a charcoal burner's hut and a fisherman's hut, of a place that is strangely familiar to him. He wants to look for this place in reality. The Jägermeister is frightened and does not want to accompany his king for the first time.

The peacock princess

The queen talks to the king. She cares about the beautiful amaryllis, the princess. She would like to see her married and happy, but the king sees the thought of his daughter's marriage only as an attack on his royal power. He's obsessed with the thought that he doesn't have a son. He ignores the beautiful daughter. Like a hunted animal, he rages against the queen and princess. He hurts everyone who comes near him. The princess thinks about her father - is he a bad person? As she wanders through the garden and thinks about the meaning of her existence, she lets the feather of one of her beloved peacocks slide into the water with the desire to find someone who understands her.

Koehler and fisherman's son

In search of the dream, the king goes on a hunt with his hunter master and they find the place: an old fisherman puts them across a river. Two young men ride horses through the river. They are the ferryman's sons. One is tall, strong, and looks dreamy and prudent. The other has black curls and a frog mouth and is bragging. The two are joking in the water. Blacks want girls and power, blondes want to know a lot and find love. The blonde discovers a peacock feather in the river and takes it. The father of the two begins to chat in front of the king in the boat: The blond son is a foundling - he came swimming in a basket on the river, just on the night when the daughter was born to the country king. The old man also admits that the foundling is closer to his heart than his own greedy son.

fault

A premonition dawns on the king: Wasn't it here where he had stayed in a charcoal burner's hut? A boy was born there and he and his Jägermeister heard the women of fate predict that the charcoal burner's son would one day marry the king and the princess. The king had thereupon ordered his hunter master to kill the child. But he spared the little one - as he now confesses to the king - he left the child in a basket on the water. The Jägermeister warns the king: Whoever makes room for evil in his heart will soon be dominated by it and evil becomes a tyrant over oneself. The king furiously banishes his Jägermeister, who was also his closest friend and confidante.

assignment

The king announces to the fisherman that he wants to take his two sons with him to court. Ocik crawls before the king - he wants to serve him like a dog. Brother Gehnichtunter is sent to the castle as a messenger with a letter. In the letter the king wrote to his wife that she should have the bearer beheaded immediately, because he was the king's worst enemy. When Gehnicht unter rests at a tree, the women of fate steal the letter from him in his sleep and exchange it for an identical letter with a royal seal: It reads that the queen should immediately marry the messenger to the princess.

love

After the peacock princess is happy too and Gehnichtunter recognizes his longed-for image in the girl, the two are married. But then the royal father returns from his hunt. The king angrily realizes that his plan to kill Gehnichtunter has not only been foiled again, but that the beautiful son of a charcoal burner is the happy husband of the happy princess. The king continues to contemplate the ruin of the charcoal burner's son and resorted to ruse: Don't go under, he says, Amaryllis must first earn himself. And he gives the young man the impossible task of getting the three golden feathers of the golden head bird for him. On the long journey the agitated Ocik is supposed to accompany him for a while and kill him in a lonely area. Amaryllis promises to be with her again in spring.

Delusion

Ocik hesitates at first, but then falls his brother into the abyss on a rock. Gehnichtunter is rescued and carried on by his horse on his way to the Vogel Goldhaupt. Ocik, however, returns to the king in the opinion that Gehnicht is no longer under. Here the greedy begins to blackmail the king as a confidante. Finally he wants to force the hand of the amaryllis and threatens to riot. The princess fears for the fate of her beloved son of a charcoal burner, but she remains clever and prudent and knows how to hold off the cruel Ocik and her blinded father.

Bird gold head

Meanwhile, Gehnicht gets to the wild sea. In the distance lies the cliff-rich island of the bird Goldhaupt. The boy swims there. Many have failed because of the barren, rough rock. But Gehnichtunter achieved his goal. He has found a mysterious place - at the same time a cliff and a temple-like place open to the sky of a sun-like power. The bird spares him because he comes to him not out of greed, but out of love. But the charcoal burner's son is also informed about his fate and origins and also about the evil intentions of the king. The voice of the sun's power urges you to hurry - the boy has to stand between the king and evil. When Gehnichtunter comes to his senses again, he finds himself in golden armor gifted with the three golden feathers.

Recovery

Spring has now come to the king's empire and the ugly Ocik is cornering the ruler - Amaryllis is now to marry Ocik. On the day of the decision, Gehnichtunter arrives. He brings the magic feathers and can thus show the king his limits. The king realizes that whoever wants to rule must also conquer evil within himself. Rule means responsibility. He hands over the royal power to Gehnichtunter and his bride. The abdicated king can ride through the country with his reconciled old Jägermeister. The greedy Ocik is sent back to the old fisherman. Gehnichtunter and Amryllis walk towards the life of their love.

material

The mythical image of a child who has been chosen to be too big and is rescued from the water in a basket is universal and encounters, among other things. a. with Osiris , with Moses and in many fairy tales. Even in the mythical images, this child on the water is often linked to ideas of the sun - and so in the fairy tale film the hero in the bird Goldkopf meets a solar power. The sun, the bird, the peacock and the peacock's eye, but also the rays of the sun and golden feathers, are linked to something supernatural in this fairy tale. In terms of content, the film combines motifs by Božena Němcovás The three golden feathers , by Karel Jaromír Erbens The three golden hairs of Grandfather Omniscient and various fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm : The devil with the three golden hairs , the phoenix bird and the griffin . As with Erben's grandfather omniscient and with Grimm's golden-haired devil , however, the film tells in retrospect of the fortunate prophecy of the women of fate at the birth of the poor boy. Here the king hears what he is not allowed to hear and tries to kill the child. The child then has to survive a river trip in a basket - a motif in Erben's grandfather omniscient , in Grimm's golden-haired devil and Grimm's Phoenix bird . In the course of these three fairy tales, the letter, which fate has been swapped, also follows, which brings the poor boy to the princess instead of being executed. The love of the Amaryllis princess and the charcoal burner is portrayed similarly to the film Němcová in The three golden feathers between the rich merchant's daughter Svatava and the orphaned shepherd boy Tschestmir. In all three fairy tales of the Grimms and also in the two fairy tales of Němcová and Erben, the rich father grudges the poor boy happiness with his daughter and he wants to get rid of the boy with an impossible task with a golden solar power. On his way, in the fairy tales, the boy meets different people in misery: withered tree of life, withered fountain of life, dried up well and a helpless ferryman. He promises to help three times to ask the power about the cause of the misfortune. This connection, through which the boy also gains unusual gifts and riches, is not shown in the film. In all fairy tales, the boy gets to the three golden feathers and the answers with the help of the old grandmother, who pats the bird, devil or sun father, leaves golden hair or feathers and asks three questions each. Go not under in the film only sees the rising sun and hears a voice. With the gold feathers, the princess can no longer be withheld from the poor boy. The motif in which a newborn child is sought after life on the basis of a prophecy is also encountered beyond this fairy tale circle: One might think of Oedipus or Romulus and Remus or the murder of Herod's children . Stylistically, the film's costumes and equipment are based on late Gothic and Burgundian court fashion. There are representational parallels to the fairy tale film The Salt Prince .

synchronization

There is a German dubbing - first broadcast on ARD in 1987.

Reviews

  • “A hard-hearted king, who has remained without an heir, sincerely seeks a boy who was once prophesied that he would one day ascend the throne of the kingdom. Imaginative children's film based on motifs from various fairy tales. ”- Lexicon of international film

literature

  • Karel Jaromír Erben : The three golden hairs of grandfather omniscient in Princess Golden Hair and other Czech fairy tales, pp. 47–62; illustrated by Arthur Scheiner ; Albatros Publishing House; Prague 1981
  • Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm : The devil with the three golden hairs ; Vogel Phönix and Der Vogel Greif in Children's and Household Tales collected by the Brothers Grimm, ed. by Carl Helbling in two volumes; Manesse 2003; Vol. 1: ISBN 9783717511625 and Vol. 2: ISBN 9783717511649
  • Božena Němcová : The three golden feathers in The golden spinning wheel, pp. 37–55; Paul List-Verlag Leipzig, oA; circa 1960.
  • Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Engebretsen Moe : The rich Peter Krämer in Nordic folk tales Part II: Norway, pp. 42–53; translated by Klara Stroebe; Eugen Diederichs-Verlag, Jena 1922

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A. Mucha: The lily
  2. ↑ Božena Němcová : The three golden feathers in The golden spinning wheel, pp. 37–55; Paul List-Verlag Leipzig, oA; circa 1960
  3. ↑ Karel Jaromír Erben : The three golden hairs of grandfather omniscient in Princess Goldhaar and other Czech fairy tales, pp. 47–62; illustrated by Arthur Scheiner ; Albatros Publishing House; Prague 1981
  4. ↑ Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm : The devil with the three golden hairs ; Phoenix bird and The golden bird in children's and house tales collected by the Brothers Grimm, ed. by Carl Helbling in two volumes; Manesse 2003; Vol. 1: ISBN 9783717511625 and Vol. 2: ISBN 9783717511649
  5. ↑ The peacock feather. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used