The Princess and the Pea (2010)
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| Original title | the princess and the Pea |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2010 |
| length | 60 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
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| Director | Bodo Fürneisen |
| script |
Nicolas Jacob , Olaf Winkler |
| music | Rainer Oleak |
| camera | Sebastian Richter |
| cut |
Matthias Behrens , Sonja Geilen (dialogue editing), Christoph Oertel (sound design) |
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The Princess and the Pea is a German fairy tale film by Bodo Fürneisen from 2010 . The remake of the story is based on the fairy tale of the same name by Hans Christian Andersen . It is a production by Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg in the ARD series Six in One Stroke .
action
Disaster threatens the kingdom: the king's sister, well-known for her malice and lust for power, is to inherit the throne. There is a will that stipulates that the king must abdicate on his 70th birthday in order to vacate the throne for his son. However, the young prince must be married on the day of his accession to the throne . Since the young man has not yet found the right one among the princesses he is looking for all over the world, it looks as if the king's sister will actually have a chance, as there is not much time left until the king's birthday. The prince loves working as a carpenter and secretly pursues it. Still hoping to change his son's mind, the old king places his hope in a princess whose arrival he awaits. When he tells his son about it, he only says that he wants to get married out of love and reminds his father that he married his mother out of love.
The princess, however, has concerns on the way and fled. To the disappointment of the king, only her empty carriage arrives, in which there is a bouquet of beautiful meadow flowers. The king's sister instructs the court squire to find the princess in order to kill her. The princess wanders through the forest frightened and already regrets that she ran away. She is found by a Sister of Charity who cares for orphaned children and offers to help. When the prince and the carpenter deliver a cart to the orphanage, he meets the princess without knowing who she really is and is immediately taken with her. When the court captain, who also grew up in the orphanage, asks whether a princess has been seen because her jewelry was found in a barn, the Sister of Mercy denies this when the girl shakes her head slightly. The young prince seeks every opportunity to visit the orphanage again. The affection between the two young people increases daily. When the princess told the prince that the children didn't have their own beds, he couldn't believe it. Then he sets about making their own beds for the children. He later told his father, beaming with joy, that he had finally found the girl he was always looking for. He fell in love with a simple girl! His father tries to make it clear to him that he is no simple carpenter, as he claims, and that he has an obligation to protect his country from the rule of his greedy aunt. He sadly tells the princess that his father has already chosen a bride for him and that he has to get married. The princess advises him to run away. He asks her if she would come with him, which she replies in the affirmative, and they hug happily. When he wanted to inform his father of his decision, the court squire rushed up and showed the king a cloak and a shoe, supposedly the property of the princess, who was probably sunk in the moor. The king is beside himself. His sister and the court squire, who staged it all, laugh up their sleeves. By chance the young prince overhears how happy they are about their plan. He realizes that it is impossible for him to cede the throne to this woman and decides to forego the woman he loves in order to marry the princess. When the princess realizes that she has fallen in love with the prince, she knows what to do next. Just as she is about to rush to the castle, the court squire stands in front of her, locks her in a dungeon and takes the key with him. The orphans have seen everything and steal the key from him.
When there is a knock at the gate, the princess is at the door. The king's sister does everything possible to stir up the king's distrust of the young woman, and the prince doesn't really know what to believe either. The king's sister wants to test the young woman and puts a pea under a mountain of mattresses. She believes that only a princess is able to feel something as small as a pea through these innumerable mattresses. The next morning the king's sister appears together with the king and prince at the bedside of the princess who is still sleeping. If she really was a princess, she must have felt the pea through the innumerable mattresses. When asked, the princess replied that she had been lying on something hard all night. The king's sister moans in anger, but that doesn't help her anymore. There is a wedding at court, and not only the young couple are overjoyed, but also the old king, who now knows his kingdom is in good hands.
background
The Princess and the Pea was filmed from June 1, 2010 to June 22, 2010. The shooting locations were Chorin Monastery , Mosigkau Castle, Diedersdorf Castle and Petzow Castle Park . The film was released on DVD in November 2010, and it was premiered on television on December 25, 2010. The orphans were portrayed by others. a. Students at the Max Kienitz primary school in Britz, which is located near the Chorin monastery.
Reviews
Fred Maurer from Zelluloid.de says, "The cast consists of great experts and young talents," "Michael Gwisdek and his son Robert Gwisdek, Rike Kloster, Iris Berben play the main roles [...] convincingly, full of noticeable enthusiasm for the genre" and "Fairy tales are demanding world literature [...] and we can learn a lot from them". Moviepilot thinks it is a "fresh and sparkling remake of the classic fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen".
TV Spielfilm considers the remake to be "entertainingly staged and aptly cast" and goes on to say, "The quarrel between Gwisdek and Iris Berben alone is worth switching on" and gives all five stars. Tilmann P. Gangloff from Tittelbach.tv is of the opinion that "veteran Bodo Fürneisen ensures a pleasantly balanced mixture of excitement, pleasant shuddering and carefree happiness."
Web links
- The Princess and the Pea in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The princess and the pea in the online movie database
- The princess and the pea at Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release for The Princess and the Pea . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , November 2010 (PDF; test number: 125 023 V).
- ↑ Fred Maurer: The princess and the pea. In: Zelluloid.de. December 26, 2010, archived from the original on July 6, 2017 ; accessed on September 22, 2018 .
- ↑ The Princess and the Pea at moviepilot.de
- ↑ The Princess and the Pea at tvspielfilm.de
- ↑ The princess and the pea at tittelbach.tv
