The rainbow fairy
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The rainbow fairy |
| Original title | Duhová panna or Dúhenka |
| Country of production | Czech Republic , Slovakia |
| original language | Czech |
| Publishing year | 2000 |
| length | 92 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK without age restriction |
| Rod | |
| Director | Branislav Mišík |
| script | Dana Garguláková |
| music | Peter Zagar |
| camera | Jaroslav Zeman |
| occupation | |
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The rainbow fairy is a fairy tale film from 2000 . The film premiered on December 25, 2000 and was broadcast on television in 2001 in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. On November 24, 2002, the television station Kika showed the film in German dubbed for the first time on television. The film was jointly produced by the Czech Republic and Slovakia in the film studios Česká televize and Slovenská televízia .
action
At the source
A spring rises like a miracle from the earth. But - it is dirty - an old man is cleaning it. He is clearly upset about the disregard for the life-giving clear water. Then there is unrest in the forest: A young mother runs away from henchmen with her baby. She is on the run from the henchmen of King Karamon - who, in his bellicose thirst for power, ordered all male children to be taken away from their mothers for his army. The poor girl with the child runs - and she makes it over the unguarded border in the forest into the kingdom of the good king Zoran. But the henchmen do not stop at the national border in their hasty obedience. So the mother hides her little son near the spring. The poor girl is caught shortly afterwards and cannot go back to her child. But the minions can't find the little one either. In search of the child, one of them stomps angrily through the neighboring king's forest and stomps through the spring. When he wants to drink here too, the old man lets his power feel and the spring dry up instantly. The henchman is frightened, feels the magic power, gives up looking for the child and runs away. The old man is the king of the springs. The spring is bubbling again. The child starts screaming. The Spring King takes the boy under his protection. But he is bitter about the people he met here in King Zoran's kingdom.
Zoran
King Zoran is playing at a fountain with a rainbow colored veil. Does he dream of his enigmatic loved one? He is a king who strives for the ideal in his way of governing. He cares little about his neighbor's mania for armaments. The refugees are welcomed by him into his country.
The fairy
While King Zoran is playing with the veil, a beautiful girl watches him - far above the clouds - in an unreal world of rocks on a magic mirror. It's the rainbow fairy. Her father, the king of the springs, surprises her. He returned angry from his experience with the baby and the spring and is indignant at the people. He forbids his daughter to dream about King Zoran or to visit him. He shows her the abandoned child as proof of human wickedness. The Spring King condemns the people. The distant view of the rainbow may deceive the daughter about people, but his experiences in water have convinced him of ingratitude and stupidity. He determines to save the newborn from humans. He forbids telling the child, whom he calls Marvin, of his human origins, and he plans to teach the boy the things of heavenly natural elements - to heat kettles under warm springs and to care for storm clouds.
Love happiness and water
The rainbow fairy agrees doubtfully, but visits her lover, King Zoran, at the next opportunity on the path of her rainbow veil that extends to the earth. The two recognize their love. But then the beautiful disappears before she has revealed herself as a rainbow fairy, as if into nothing, and she does not return either. King Zoran falls seriously ill. The Spring King prevents the fairy from returning. When the beautiful sees in her magic mirror that only her presence can save Zoran, she escapes from her father. Zoran and the rainbow fairy decide to get married. Then the angry Spring King rises from the castle fountain: He speaks of a rainbow fairy's thirst for water - could Zoran also provide his loved one with enough water? And he warns that a rainbow fairy with her rainbow has duties to everyone and cannot stay with a single person. The spring king curses the water springs in the kingdom of King Zoran - the springs and wells are gradually drying up. The fairy still has enough to drink, but the people and the animals suffer. And it keeps getting worse. The fairy gives the king a little daughter, Iris. She bathes it in rainbow-colored, magical water. Soon she has to realize that she has to leave her husband and child for the suffering dry land in order to reconcile the Spring King. The Spring King tears the rainbow veil on their return. This no longer reaches down to earth. The rainbow bridge between the heavenly world and the human world is thus torn.
Iris and the rainbow water
There is water again in the kingdom of King Zoran. But Iris grows up without a mother - only on her birthdays can the fairy send the child a distant greeting with a rainbow. King Zoran is unhappy. He follows every rainbow. The longing for the loving mother and Zoran's attempts to make his child happy are a mixture in which Iris becomes a terribly spoiled child. And in this confusion, the princess lacks a sense of what is vital. She torments the world with the desire for rainbow water. Planters and tubs with coloring flowers are in the whole courtyard. The peasant children mock the spoiled princess. Zoran is at a loss. The strange advice arises that the princess should marry to make up for the lack of education. Of course Iris fights back. But in the end she agrees with shrewd reservation if any of the applicants were able to bring her rainbow water. Of course, not even the silver and gold princes are up to this task. Feeling that she is not understood, Iris runs away into the forest.
Marvin above the clouds
Marvin and the rainbow fairy watched this happening sadly above the clouds. Marvin has now become a handsome young man in the heavenly world. The fairy has often noticed that his eyes are looking for irises in the magic mirror. The two consider together: Marvin will get to Iris with the remaining part of the rainbow veil - he dares to jump through the rest of the sky, like with a parachute. The fairy gratefully gives him rainbow water as a greeting for Iris.
The pearl curse
After a violent fall, Marvin lands on the meadow where the pouting Iris is crouching. For him, too, the princess has plenty of ridicule at first. But when Marvin hands her the glass with rainbow water, she becomes curious. But when Marvin wants to give the rainbow water to the spoiled girl, the spring king suddenly appears and demystifies the colors from the water, whereupon Iris announces stupid about the precious clear water. The Spring King is the wrong person for such gossip and he curses them because every water in contact with the iris turns into pearls. Iris has to die of thirst, unless she manages to bring a carafe of water to the heavenly world of the Spring King in three days.
The hike
Marvin answers. He will help Iris with the task and find the place. He urges a hurry. With the curse of thirst, every minute can be crucial in Iris's life. At first Iris misunderstood the importance of water: reckless things happen. The carafe falls over. Marvin and Iris fill it up again by laboriously collecting morning dew from calyxes. They are also looking for the precious water at the large waterfall. It turns into a pearl spray when Iris approaches. Iris sadly takes a pearl for her mother. They keep fighting. Marvin has to carry the dying girl up the rocks. Eventually it collapses on the edge of the sky rock itself. When Iris sees this, she offers her water from the carafe and pours it into Marvin. Marvin comes back to life. But Iris failed in her task and the curse hits her. The King of the Spring and the Fairy appear. Marvin and the fairy beg for Iris, but the king seems powerless - only one drop from the carafe would have freed Iris from the curse and saved her life: Marvin remembers the drop of water that has congealed into a pearl. The Spring King can transform the pearl back into water and thus save Iris. Iris finally hugs her mother. Marvin learns of his humanity and the source king frees everyone from his compulsion.
The End
Happy Marvin and Iris return to King Zoran. They have recognized their love for one another in the misery they have endured together. King Zoran, who is now also getting to know the way to his rainbow fairy, is happily on his way.
material
The rainbow is a cross-cultural, intermythological image for a bridge between gods and humans, between heaven and earth, between nature and humans. Thus the rainbow becomes the Old Testament symbol for the new covenant between man and God after the flood . In Greek mythology, the goddess Iris with her rainbow is the messenger of the gods. The rainbow fairy of the fairy tale film is a creature of air, light and water, to talk to Christoph Martin Wieland : She is a subtle mixture of Undine , Sylphide and Salamandrine . In the difficult love of a female elemental spirit for a human man, the fairy tale of the rainbow fairy also contains parallels to Andersen's The Little Mermaid , as well as to the Russian fairy tale Snegurochka . The golden curse of King Midas can be seen in the pearl curse on Iris , but on the other hand the motif also reflects the gift of pearl tears in the Grimm fairy tale: the goose girl at the fountain . The initial situation of the fairy tale in the disregard of the water is encountered in a legend from Gascogne from the collection of Jean-François Bladé : The bad man - a man disregards the miracle of the spring and can therefore no longer drink from it later. There are fairy tale pictures on the subject of rainbows by Arthur Rackham , Edmund Dulac and Sulamith Wülfing
literature
- Anne-Marie Dalmais : The Rainbow Fairy Tale - A Story from the Orient ; Munich Franz Schneider Verlag, 1988 with illustrations by Violayne Hulne , translated into German by v. Renate Nave
- Bernd Lampe : The rainbow in Bernd Lampe's collection: Tobin and the golden fish - a Slavic legend and other stories ; Stuttgart, J.Ch. Mellinger Verlag, 1972.
- Jiri Serych : Where the rainbow ends - myths, sagas and fairy tales about the sky ; told by Jiri Serych. With numerous, partly colored illustrations by Jan Kudlacek . Artia Publishing House; Prague 1977
Reviews
- “A king falls in love with an unknown young woman without realizing that she is the daughter of the Spring King. When they get married and have a daughter a year later, all the wells and rivers in the country run dry and the woman has to return to her father. When the need seems greatest, the Spring King's adopted son ensures a happy ending. Czech-Slovak fairy tale film that continues the great children's film tradition of both countries. ” - Lexicon of international film
synchronization
The German dubbing was created in the Synchron- und Tonstudio Leipzig GmbH on behalf of MDR television:
| role | actor | |
|---|---|---|
| Rainbow fairy | Pavlína Plácková | Dagmar Dempe |
| Source king | Dusan Lenci | Walter Niklaus |
| King Zoran | Igor Ondricek | Peter Reinhardt |
| iris | Michaela Merklová | Manja Doering |
| Hofmeister | Leopold Haverl | Kaspar Eichel |
| maid | Zdena Gruberová | Ursula Werner |
Web links
- The Regenbogenfee in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Photos of The Rainbow Fairy at ČSFD.cz
- The rainbow fairy at fdb.cz
- Photos of the film The Rainbow Fairy
- Arthur Rackham's drawing Iris with her plumed bow from 1921 for John Milton's Comus - the rainbow as in the film as a veil.
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. Karl Kerényi : The mythology of the Greeks - the gods and human histories ; Vol. I; Pp. 51-53; Unabridged edition from November 1966, published by Deutscher Taschenbuchverlag in the twenty-third edition, Munich 2003 ISBN 3-423-30030-2
- ↑ These fairy tales in the third volume of the southern French folk tales / Conte poplaires de la Gascogne: From God and his worlds - collected by Jean-François Bladé , translated by Konrad Sandkühler; Urachhaus publishing house; Stuttgart, 2000 ISBN 3-8251-7320-8 ; The volume also contains legends, rascals, fables and joke poems from Gascony
- ↑ Drawing by Edmund Dulac : This rainbow depiction was created as an illustration for the fairy tale The Dreamer of Dreams by Marie of Edinburgh , Queen of Romania
- ^ Sulamith Wülfing: The rainbow
- ↑ This fairy tale takes up the rainbow colors in stones and plants in the tradition of old Persian fairy tales: In particular, of the seven colors of the seven stories of the seven princesses of Nizami
- ↑ The rainbow fairy. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed February 27, 2017 .
