The princess and the flying cobbler
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| German title | The princess and the flying cobbler |
| Original title | O princezně Jasněnce a létajícím ševci |
| Country of production | ČSSR |
| original language | Czech |
| Publishing year | 1987 |
| length | 87 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
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| Director | Zdeněk Troška |
| script | Karel Steigerwald |
| production | Jirí Beránek |
| music | Petr Almond |
| camera | Jaroslav Brabec |
| cut | Vlasta Synkulová |
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English, German, Finnish, French | |
The Princess and the Flying Shoemaker (also: Princess Jasnenka and the Flying Shoemaker ) is one of the most delightful Czech fairy tale films . The film had its cinema premiere on December 1, 1987. The work was produced in the Barrandov film studios . The film was shown on German television under the title Princess Jasnenka and the Flying Shoemaker for the first time on August 10, 1990 on ARD, after it had previously been shown in the GDR cinema - here, however, under the original title. In France the film was called La princesse Jasna , in Finland Prinsessa ja lentävä suutari . In terms of content, the fairy tale film is based very precisely on the course of the fairy tale by Jan Drda , which is available in German translation under the title Von der Princess Lichtholde and the cobbler, who could fly .
actor
In particular, Michaela Kuklová's vivid portrayal of Princess Jasnenka makes the film a special cinematic experience. Michaela Kuklová is already known as the fairy tale princess in the somewhat less productive role of the wild princess from the fairy tale film The Story of the Goose Princess and her faithful horse Falada , also from 1988. She also embodied the beautiful Margaretha in the fairytale epic Devilish Luck . As Jasnenka, she plays alongside Jan Potměšil , who portrays the young shoemaker with all the flying skills that are reminiscent of Leonardo da Vinci or Vladimir Evgrafowitsch Tatlin .
action
Solar eclipse
One gloomy morning a servant hurries excitedly through the royal palace: the sun doesn't want to rise. Everything comes together, the king, who is still wearing a nightcap, his beautiful daughter Jasnenka and the court - the plaintiffs appear before the king. On one side is the beautiful Frau Sonne, on the other the witch of darkness with her dirty witch daughter. The sun accuses the witch of stealing and slaughtering her sun cock, so the cock can no longer wake the sun and it would then no longer rise. The rooster is immediately found, revived and crows; and the witch is evidently guilty. While the idiot king tries to pull himself out of the conflict between the great powers, Jasnenka passionately takes sides for the rights of the sun. Then the sun rises, the world becomes bright, but the witch is now Jasnenka's enemy. In order to punish the princess, the witch condemns Jasnenka as a princess to have to marry a shoemaker.
The princess in the tower
Jasnenka takes this prediction of the witch with composure, but her father absolutely wants to marry the princess to a prince. To avoid the cobbler, the old king locks the princess with her wet nurse in a high tower.
The blacksmith and the cobbler
Meanwhile, such is done with the king, walking two journeymen across the country. In the forest, the two comrades brag about which of the two masters the more elaborate craft: one is a blacksmith , the other is the shoemaker Jira. As they were chatting, a man emerged from the wood as if from nowhere and promised them all leather and all iron and copper so that they could measure their strength. The young men are enthusiastic. The next morning the blacksmith made an elaborate iron chicken that cackles and lays iron eggs. Jira suddenly stands on the roof and spreads cobbled leather wings and is up and away.
The flying cobbler
Jira flies over countries, finally he lands and finds a master shoemaker with whom he can work. Jira has come to the land of Princess Jasnenka. The master tells Jira about the princess in the tower and also about the witch's saying. Jira gets curious and flies to the tower that same night.
The cobbler and the princess
As soon as Jira and Jasnenka met on the tower, they fell in love with each other. Fortunately, Jasnenka's wet nurse is asleep and initially does not notice the visits from the air. Finally the wet nurse becomes suspicious and tries to ambush Jasnenka with the king behind the tower chamber while listening. When Jasnenka and Jira are taken by surprise, all that's left is to flee. Jira takes his princess in her arms and they fly away from the tower.
The shoemaker's wife
Jasnenka and Jira are very happy. They got married and Jasnenka is now a shoemaker's wife. Jasnenka sells Jira's shoes in the market. The witch of darkness and her daughter see their happiness in a magic mirror. They burn with anger: The marriage with the shoemaker should be a curse and now Jasnenka is in the greatest happiness with Jira. The two witches decide to put an end to their luck.
The witch of darkness
The witch of darkness kidnaps the beautiful cobbler when Jasnenka is selling shoes in the market. Jira only finds one red shoe from his Jasnenka, from the pair that he cobbled for his loved one. Desperate, he goes in search of his little princess, the tip of the red shoe points like a magical compass in the direction of the path that Jira must take. But at some point every path is lost, swamps spread out. A strange shoemaker job comes to the rescue for Jira: The sun has crushed her shoes. Jira is supposed to fix the burning shoes in one night. The skillful shoemaker succeeds in doing this with blacksmith tools despite the glowing heat. The sun woman is satisfied with the shoes. As a reward, she can show Jira the way to Jasnenka and she also gives him help. He can call the sun in need.
The Liberation
Jira comes to the dark castle ( Castle Frýdštejn ) of the witch. Here poor Jasnenka has to work from morning to night for the witch and her daughter and is also constantly shooed around and fought around. After Jira has endured various dangerous fights, he can finally come to an understanding with Jasnenka and free his loved one from the horrors. At last he is in the highest desperation, he calls the sun and it decides to let the castle go up in flames. She calls after the fleeing couple that they should quickly leave all the darkness behind.
New loss
Exhausted after their escape, Jira and Jasnenka rest in the forest. Jira is thirsty. Then he sees a drinking bottle that Jasnenka brought back from the Hexenburg. In the bottle the witch brewed a potion of oblivion for Jasnenka. The witch wanted Jasnenka to forget Jira and her happiness. The potion is made in such a way that the memory only comes back when you find something again that you have never lost. The lovers know nothing of the drink and its magic. Jira drinks and falls asleep. A rider comes by, recognizes the wanted Princess Jasnenka and brings her back to the king by force. Jira wakes up and can no longer remember Jasnenka. He feels confused and unhappy and goes to a shoemaker's workshop to earn his living. He can't even remember the purpose of the leather wings, at least he keeps the wings with him. Jira also finds a precious little red shoe. During her fight with the rider, Jasnenka lost one red shoe. He also puts the shoe on himself without knowing what he is doing.
The red shoe
Meanwhile, Jasnenka desperately searches for her Jira, but there is no trace. The old king is again in her ears that she should finally marry a prince; finally he forces Jasnenka. The poor is presented to three princes: Then she falls into the idea of only marrying the one who brings her the counterpart to her red shoe. A sinister prince takes on the shoe task. He knows an excellent cobbler. He should make a counterpart for him. Jasnenka is already thinking of new excuses. But making such a shoe turns out to be more difficult than expected. Finally, the prince is referred to a talented young dreamer who might be able to cobble such a fine shoe. It's none other than Jira.
Recovery
When Jira sees the red shoe and holds the counterpart in his backpack against it, he has found something that he has never lost. Jira's memory comes back. He remembers Jasnenka, brings her her shoes and the two find each other again. The king must give his consent, otherwise Jasnenka and her Jira will fly up and away again with their wings.
material
The film essentially corresponds to the fairy tale by Jan Drda. In Drda, however, the enmity between the sun and the witch is less evident than antagonism . And in the end, when they find themselves in the castle, Lichtholde and her shoemaker actually fly away from Drda and find their happiness with the cobbler's shop. In the film, the king is finally satisfied with his daughter's decision. Jan Drda's shoemaker's fairy tale resembles the fairy tale of the Brothers Grimm About the carpenter and turner . The woman sun acts in the film as if it were the paintings of Hans Baluschek to Gerdt von Bassewitz ' Peterchens Mondfahrt sprung. The fairy tale of Drda revolves around typical fairy tale motifs: the sun as a beautiful woman, the wicked witch , a tower on which a princess is locked up, and a king who does not agree with his daughter's choice of love. In addition, there is the ancient human space that humans can fly like birds.
The quarters of the witches were in the carved rock spaces of the Frýdštejn Castle . The filming location for the meeting between Jira and the princess - the tower - was Bouzov Castle .
synchronization
The German dubbing was done in the studios of DEFA Filmstudios , Leipzig .
Reviews
- "In her anger with the king, a witch prophesies that the king's daughter will one day marry a shoemaker. Years later, the prophecy seems to come true, but the shoemaker turns out to be a smart, charming fellow whom the princess falls in love with. Now she tries Witch, to pull the two apart by all means. Lovingly played and imaginatively designed fairy tale film based on the motifs of the fairy tale by Jan Drda. (TV title also: Princess Jasnenka and the flying cobbler ")". - Lexicon of international film
literature
- Jan Drda: From Princess Lichtholde and the cobbler who could fly in Czech fairy tales - illustrated by Josef Lada pp. 128–165 in the translation by Valter Kraus, Albatros-Verlag, Prague 1985
Web links
- The Princess and the Flying Shoemaker in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Preview of the film The Princess and the Flying Cobbler in the original Czech language
- Pictures of the fairy tale film on the Czech-Slovak film database
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. Information about the film on ČSFD.cz
- ↑ Jan Drda: From the princess Lichtholde and the cobbler who could fly in Czech fairy tales - illustrated by Josef Lada pp. 128–165 in the translation by Valter Kraus, Albatros-Verlag, Prague 1985
- ↑ Study of wings by Leonardo da Vinci ( Memento of the original from July 1, 2011 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.
- ↑ Tatlin: Aircraft
- ↑ The princess and the flying cobbler. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
