The Princess and the Pea (1977)

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Movie
German title the princess and the Pea
Original title Принцесса на горошине
(Prinzessa na goroschine)
Country of production Soviet Union
original language Russian
Publishing year 1977
length 87-89 minutes
Age rating FSK without age restriction
Rod
Director Boris Ryzarev
script Felix Mironer
production Gorky Studio Moscow
music Antonio Vivaldi
camera Alexander Matschilski
Vyacheslav Yegorov
cut W. Issajewoi
Nina Vasilieva
occupation

The Princess on the Pea (also: Princess wanted ; Original title: russisch Принцесса на горошине , Prinzessa na goroschine ) is a Soviet fairy tale film based on the fairy tale The Princess and the Pea by Hans Christian Andersen . The open initial situation of Andersen's pea fairy tale, where a prince returns disappointed, is lucidly embellished with motifs from other Andersen fairy tales: The Swineherd , The Travel Mate and The Unbelievable . The film premiered in Soviet cinemas in May 1977. The film was first shown in Finland on October 27, 1978. The German premiere was broadcast on GDR television on August 14, 1977 on DFF2, on February 10, 1978 the German dubbed version was shown in the cinema there, and in the Federal Republic of Germany the first broadcast on ZDF television followed on September 19, 1989. There has been a German dubbed video since 1994.

actor

The princess and the pea is the actress Irina Malysheva . She also starred in the Russian fairy tale film The Rider on the Golden Horse . Andrej Podoschian depicts the Prince Charming through versatile forms of expression in relation to the encounters that are so different in character. From the worried argument of the parental royal couple, portrayed by Alisa Frejndlikh and Innokenti Mikhailovich Smoktunowski , it becomes clear that only the test with the pea can provide clarity.

music

The storyline is accompanied by Antonio Vivaldi's The Four Seasons . The fourfold mood contained therein corresponds to the four encounters between the prince and the four princesses. The pig shepherd princess is also seduced, as with Andesen, by the mechanical music box that plays the melody of Oh, you dear Augustin . L'art pour l'art - Princess is surrounded by musical noise in the diversity and simultaneity of the musical approaches there. Vivaldi's music remains the guiding principle.

action

The royal family and a girl

Rain pours. The walls of a royal, simple castle come into view. A sign can be seen here: Princess wanted . Inside the castle, the royal couple sit by the fire and tease each other. The son, the handsome prince, has grown up. But where is the right princess supposed to come from in the wilderness? Then there is a knock at the gate. When the king opens the door, a girl is standing in front of it, dripping with rain. Who she is is answered simply: She is a princess. She marveled at the handsome prince and joked with him: That's how she always imagined him. Father and son have to laugh. The queen puts the lovely girl to bed. The king thinks it is a little girl's fantasy that there should be a princess here.

Departure

The next morning the king wakes his son early. It's time. The prince should ride into the world and conquer a real princess. The king sends the prince on his way with the only horse. The mother is horrified, but what happened cannot be made good. The prince is gone. Everyone is crying, including the girl who has just woken up and comforts her parents.

The rose and the nightingale

The prince rides and comes to another kingdom. A king resides gracefully here in a pink moated castle. When the prince peers over the castle wall on the shoulders of a swineherd, it is a magnificent sight. The king tends the rocailles in his garden with gold . And then the princess and her maid of honor appear tripping in pink ruffles. It is a real princess. The swineherd grumbles - one is not very proud of this girl in the country. But the prince is thrilled. As a suitor, he asks for an audience and brings presents: But the magical rose from his father's garden and the singing nightingale are despised at court: they are the glories of nature. And the natural is ridiculed as a mess at this court .

The swineherd

The prince goes his way sadly, meets the swineherd on the edge of the field . And for a joke he swaps clothes with him and becomes the new swineherd at court. Dirty and unrecognized, the prince chats as a swineherd with a chiming potty. The princess arrives, none of her court ladies has an idea to dispel the yawning boredom. Then the princess hears the chimes . The desire awakens: she absolutely has to have the potty. It is something new. And not only is the music lovely, the potty also provides information about kitchen dishes. But the swineherd doesn't give up the potty and only sells it for ten kisses from the princess. At first the girl is shy, but she desperately wants to own the pot and finally she lets the dirty swineherd kiss her ten times. The next day the girl is bored again. But the swineherd has another new sounding toy to the tune Oh, you dear Augustin . And the girl asks eagerly for the price. The shepherd wants a hundred princess kisses. When the princess finally kisses him, the royal father catches her at the hundredth kiss. Outraged, the king expelled his daughter from the castle and gave her to the swineherd as a wife. The pink frilled girl now wants to become the prince's wife, but he refers her to the real swineherd, who doesn't want the spoiled girl either.

Turandot

After a long way through mountains and forests, the prince arrives in another kingdom. In the medieval walled city, the royal castle, fluttered in black cloth, rises up in a high Gothic style. Warnings from the citizens try to stop the prince. It is whispered that the princess is a witch and the prince is riding to his doom. In the palace he meets a lively, little king who tries with a lot of wit to avoid a conversation about his daughter. When the prince finally asks for the hand of the king's daughter, the father is deeply grieved: The princess has set the condition for soliciting her hand: the suitor has to guess three things that she is thinking of. If he does not succeed in this he pays with his life. When the prince sees the jackdaws swarming victims of this game in the courtyard, to the delight of the king he wants to forego further advertising. But then the black beauty rides through the city. And he's charmed. The next morning the prince will face the mortal danger of the riddle .

Troll

In a sleepless night the prince watches Turandot riding away and secretly follows her through wide, dark corridors. The goal of the beautiful is a festival of forest spirits. Nymphs and dryads dance their round here . The ruler here is a troll who hides his disfigured face under a cloth. The black princess loves him. They spin around in the dance and think about which questions should be used to help the new suitor. While the prince is hiding with an alder girl , he can hear the answers: The black princess will think of her shoe and her glove . The next morning, to the delight of the court society, the prince answered the first two questions of the beautiful woman. But the princess, horrified and upset, announces the crucial third question for the coming day.

salvation

Hoping to redeem the princess from her troll blindness, the prince again follows the beautiful woman in the night and overhears the troll and his loved one. This time the princess should think of the troll head. When the girl is gone, the prince puts the troll to fight. The presented head should answer the question tomorrow. But then everything turns out very differently. The prince must realize that the princess and troll prince are happy and they cannot love anyone else. Tired of life and sad, however, the troll reports of a shape-destroying curse that lies on him, and which can only be lifted by the princess' public confession of the disfigured person. The girl is not allowed to know anything about this, otherwise the magic will not work. The next morning the prince appears with a sack for the questioning ceremony. On the third question, he waved the sack meaningfully. The princess loses consciousness - believing the troll is dead. But then the living troll appears and the prince solves the third riddle: This is the troll head that you thought of and now confesses that you love it . This truth is life-threatening for the royal father, but in the end the beauty speaks the truth. And a prince stands before her, disenchanted. The king also recovers from the shock. Turandot and her loved one celebrate their wedding. The slain suitors awaken to new life. Everyone is happy, but the sad, handsome prince has to move on, disappointed.

The precious one

Tired, the prince arrives in a distant region. In the loneliness of the forest he meets a painter. On the easel there is a portrait of a charming princess. After some misunderstanding, it turns out that this portrait is painted from life and represents the princess of this land. This princess is a muse and patron of the arts and tomorrow she wants to choose the husband who can do the most incredible things in art. The prince meets the beautiful woman in her palace garden. In the background there is a magnificent classical castle. The red-haired tender woman gladly grants the prince his wooing, but she wishes him to see the improbable, the most astonishing, which only could touch her heart. In the list of suitors and their artistic performances, the prince is positioned sixth.

The most incredible

The next day, the sunny, sculptural palace garden is filled with a thousand different sounds. But since every musician plays for himself, the whole thing sounds quite dissonant . Lutes lie in the grass, dancers skip past, others recite - it's a carnival of the arts. The poet is allowed to speak first. But first he has to rub the sleep out of his eyes. The princess is very taken with his short poem . Then the pantomime follows . His expressive display of heart's longing becomes so lifelike that the poorest man succumbs to a true heart attack and dies. For the faint-hearted princess this is probably too much depth. Then the painter can present his great work of art . One is excited. However, it becomes clear that the painter's love is for art and not for the princess. The princess really goes along with the next ballet dancer - they dance together until the watchful old advisor catches the little bird again. Left alone in dancing passion, the dancer obsessively drills his way down through the earth. Now it's the prince's turn. He shows a feat and with a kiss from the princess he conjures up the most beautiful rose in the world in a glass bowl. Everyone is enthusiastic: this is the most beautiful, the most improbable . And since the little princess is tired, it is surprisingly unanimously decided to forego the other 150 performances and to recognize the prince as the winner. But then powerful laughs boom through the artificial garden . A strong, rowdy man gets out of a white carriage, smashes glass and rose and claims to have surpassed the most incredible with his deed of destroying the most beautiful. The stupid little princess complies and puts the delicate little hand in the iron hand. Laughing, the brutal kidnaps the precious .

the princess and the Pea

It's a dark day. The trees are defoliated. Rain pours. The old royal couple is sitting in front of the fireplace in their home castle . Then there is a knock on the castle gate. It is the lost prince - dripping with rain and sad. But how happy everyone is that he lives and returns home - even without a princess. But then the prince's eyes open. Who is that beautiful girl who lives with her parents? The radiant beauty has become the little girl who came into the house on the evening of the Prince's departure. While father König still doubts whether she is a princess and mother queen admonishes an unmistakable pea method, the young prince is completely entranced and helps the beautiful woman with the apple pie baking. And then, with great excitement and fun, the unmistakable attempt to identify the princess is made with the famous pea . Mountains of mattresses and eiderdown duvets are piled on the girl's bed . The pea is at the bottom and it will prevent the princess from sleeping. Everything happens as requested. The girl can't sleep on the pea - maybe also because she is in love. And the prince is overjoyed: he has found his love. The mystical pea is placed on a crystal bowl in an art chamber. And so this fairytale pea finally shows this prince which princess is the right one of all .

material

Andersen's fairy tale of the princess and the pea forms the basis of the plot in this film. The course shows small variations to the pea fairy tale: The film begins with the arrival of the rain-soaked beauties, while in Andersen's case this girl only appears after the prince returns home exhausted from the search for the “real princess”. Andersen's sad search for the pea fairy tale prince is not further concretized, however, the film here nests three encounters between the prince and three other Andersen tales in the pea fairy tale: The three “not quite right princesses” come from the fairy tales The Swineherd , The Traveling Comrade and That Most incredible .

Fairy tale in fairy tale

The film episode of the first travel encounter corresponds exactly to Andersen's swineherd tale . The pink princess despises the natural beauty of the rose and nightingale . “Bol” and “Golgol”, ie rose and nightingale, are metaphors of perfect love in Persian mysticism . They open up natural and artificial beauty in Andersen's pig shepherd's fairy tale and - at least in the image of the nightingale - are further developed by the poet in Andersen's fairy tale The Nightingale . Oscar Wilde's fairy tale The Nightingale and the Rose reshapes this image, entirely in the sad sense of love of the film section. The prince's second travel encounter is the black Turandot princess from Andersen's fairy tale Der Reisekamerad In the film, however, unlike in the fairy tale, the prince himself can overhear the beautiful woman with her troll. And in contrast to Andersen's The Traveling Comrade , the aim here is not to free the princess from the troll, but rather the film fairy tale develops into a redemption tale, comparable to Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont's fairy tale Beauty and the Beast : The princess can get through here publicly professing their love to free the troll. The turandot princess's dohlen-swirled courtyard is taken as a film image of frozen power from Andersen's fairy tale The Gardener and the Lordship . The third film episode shows the disappointing princess from the Andersen fairy tale The Most Incredible . However, it is not - as in fairy tales - that a clockwork that depicts the world is celebrated as a victorious work of art, but the most beautiful rose in the world . In the competition of arts characters from different Andersen fairy tales appear: The dying pantomime appears similar to the amorous sculptor from the fairy tale Die Psyche . In the picture of the princess, the painter shows a representation that is reminiscent of the rose picture from Andersen's fairy tale The Neighboring Families . The dancer falls into the traumatized dance frenzy that is experienced in the fairy tale The Red Shoes . The sad kidnapping of the precious is shown in the final picture from Andersen's fairy tale Under the Willow Tree , where the lover sees his beloved get into a carriage with a buffoon .

photos

Omnipresence of the color pink in Heinrich Lefler's illustration for The Princess and the Swineherd , 1897

The mattress-covered bed of the Princess and the Pea is inspired in the film by Edmund Dulac's famous fairy tale illustration for Andersen's fairy tale of the same name. The optical sewing of the swineherd princess and the pigs are not only suggested in the film by the camera work, but are also evident in the pink frilled costume of the princess and her maid of honor. This pink omnipresence is also shown by Heinrich Lefler's fairy tale pictures of Andersen The Swineherd . The four worlds of the four different fairytale princesses of the film also differ architecturally through the Romanesque building of the prince's parents' castle , the Rococo castle of the swineherd princess , the Gothic castle of the Turandot and the neo-classical splendor of the precious .

Locations

It was shot at different castles in the Czech Republic:

synchronization

The German dubbing was done in the ateliers of DEFA Filmstudios , Babelsberg . In the German version, the dialogues are from Gerda Malig , the direction was Günter Wolf , editing Brigitte Hein and Ton Heinz Baldin .

role actor Voice actor
the princess and the Pea Irina Malysheva Evelyn Opoczynski
prince Andrei Podozhyan Frank Schenk
queen Alissa Freindlich Sonja Stokowy
king Innokenti Smoktunowski Manfred Heine
Pig shepherd princess Irina Yurevich Dorothea Meissner
Swineherd Vasily Kupriyanov Eberhard Prüter
Father of the pig shepherd princess Yuri Chekulaev Günter doll
Turandot Princess Marina Libakowa-Liwanowa Monika Bielenstein
Troll Prince Igor Kwasha Jürgen Kluckert
Father of the Turandot princess Alexander Kalyagin Fred Alexander
Sensitive princess Svetlana Orlova Hellena Büttner
The man with the iron hand Yevgeny Steblow ?

Reviews

“Based on motifs from various fairy tales by Hans-Christian Andersen A terrible storm dominates the night when a young girl knocks on the door of a castle to ask for shelter. The royal family allows the girl who claims to be a princess to enter immediately, but does not believe her origin. Now the kingdom urgently needs a princess. And so the king's son is sent into the world to finally find a woman of his heart. The prince also meets three different princesses on his journey: But the right one is not there! The prince finally returns home unhappy, desperate and, above all, without a princess. There he suddenly sees the young girl who is still in the castle and suddenly recognizes its incomparable beauty. Now a pea under 20 blankets is used to check whether the girl is really a princess. "

- moviepilot

“A royal couple is looking for a princess through an advertisement at the castle gate. When a girl asks for admission during a storm and says she's a princess, you don't believe him. So the son wanders through the country looking for a bride, but the princesses are either haughty or stupid or love someone else. In the end, the prince and the girl become a happy couple. Motifs from different Andersen fairy tales are combined into an entertaining, sometimes funny, sometimes serious and dark fairy tale film. Intelligent entertainment with wit and some socially critical tips. (TV title: 'Princess wanted!') "

- Lexicon of international film

literature

  • The princess and the pea . In: Hans Christian Andersen : Complete Fairy Tales , Volume One; complete edition - from Danish by Thyra Dorenburg. Artemis & Winkler, Düsseldorf / Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-538-06991-3 , pp. 29-30
  • The pig servant . In: Hans Christian Andersen : Complete Fairy Tales , Volume One; complete edition - from Danish by Thyra Dorenburg. Artemis & Winkler, Düsseldorf / Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-538-06991-3 , pp. 260-266
  • The traveling companion . In: Hans Christian Andersen : Complete Fairy Tales , Volume One; complete edition - from Danish by Thyra Dorenburg. Artemis & Winkler, Düsseldorf / Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-538-06991-3 , pp. 57-80
  • The most incredible . In: Hans Christian Andersen : Complete Fairy Tales , Volume Two; complete edition - from Danish by Thyra Dorenburg; Artemis & Winkler, Düsseldorf / Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-538-06992-1 , pp. 611–618
  • Hans Christian Andersen: The Princess and the Pea (pp. 41–43); The Swineherd (pp. 308-316); The Nightingale (pp. 326–343); Der Reisekamerad (pp. 80–112); The red shoes (p. 471–481) In: Gesammelte Märchen ; ed. and partly retransmitted by Floriana Storrer-Madelung; with an afterword by Martin Bodmer; Vol. 1. manesse-Verlag, Zurich 2002, ISBN 978-3-7175-1014-7

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Princess sought on pp. 213–217 in 77 Fairy Tale Films - A Guide for Young and Old (ed.) Eberhard Berger, Joachim Giera u. a. Henschel Verlag GmbH; Berlin 1990; ISBN 3-362-00447-4
  2. ↑ The cinematic "boxing" of these three other Andersen fairy tales in the pea fairy tale is also described by Fabienne Liptay in Wunderwelten - fairy tales in film ; Michael Itschert, Gardez! Verlag; Remscheid, 2004; ISBN 3-89796-041-9 , p. 132
  3. ↑ The Andersen fairy tale Der Reisekamerad is also visualized in the Czech fairy tale film Der Reisekamerad . The Czech film adaptation, however, corresponds exactly to the Andersen fairy tale: The aim here is to free the princess from the troll, and the Turandot story of the riddle princess does not turn into a trolling fairy tale
  4. ↑ There is no help here from a grateful dead person, which is a basic motif in Andersen's fairy tale of the traveling companion .
  5. ↑ Motifs of a redemption fairy tale shows Andersen's fairy tale The Mud King's Daughter - here, however, the girl has to be redeemed and not the troll as in the film
  6. ^ Princess and the Pea. Illustration by Edmund Dulac. surlalunefairytales.com, March 10, 2007, accessed December 7, 2010 .
  7. ↑ Image from Heinrich Lefler: Der Schweinhirt . In: Princeton Weekly Bulletin Vol. 95, No. 17. Princeton University , February 27, 2006, accessed December 7, 2010 (referenced from Filmmaker talks about her work ).
  8. ↑ Jewelery book for The Princess and the Swineherd  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.nocloo.com  
  9. ↑ a b c d Archived copy ( memento of the original dated December 10, 2016 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.diethelm-glaser.net
  10. ↑ The princess and the pea. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on December 26, 2017 .
  11. ↑ Description at moviepilot
  12. ↑ The princess and the pea. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used