The Snow Queen (1967)
| Movie | |
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| German title | the snow Queen |
| Original title | Снежная королева (Sneschnaja korolewa) |
| Country of production | Soviet Union |
| original language | Russian |
| Publishing year | 1967 |
| length | 85 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Gennady Kazansky |
| script | Yevgeny Black |
| production | Lenfilm |
| music | Nadezhda Simonjan |
| camera | Vadim Grammatikow , Sergei Ivanov |
| cut | I. Novoshilova |
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| synchronization | |
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by the DEFA Studio for synchronization | |
The Snow Queen (original title: Russian Снежная королева , Sneschnaja korolewa ) is a Soviet fairy tale film by Gennady Kazansky from 1967, based on the fairy tale The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen .
action
One winter evening, the grandmother of the siblings Kai and Gerda receives a visit from an unfriendly stranger, a wealthy councilor who desperately wants her roses in order to sell them at high prices. The grandmother vehemently refuses, however, because the flowers are a gift from her subtenant, a storyteller, and gifts cannot be sold. The stranger announces that he will take revenge and complain to his queen, the Snow Queen. This appears shortly afterwards and wants to take Kai with her; it offers the boy a life in eternal prosperity. When Kai refuses, the Snow Queen kisses him goodbye, which turns the boy's heart into a lump of ice.
A little later, Kai hangs himself on the Snow Queen's sleigh with his sleigh and is kidnapped. When he still hasn't returned in the spring, Gerda goes looking for her brother. The ravens Karl and Klara tell her that Kai may have become the bridegroom of Princess Elsa and takes Gerda to the castle. The prince is not Kai, but a young man named Klaus. He and Elsa have already heard of Gerda and Kai through the talkative Crow, a relative of Karl and Klara, and provide the girl with a gold carriage so that Gerda can safely get to the Snow Queen's palace to save Kai. When Elsa's actually good-natured father, the king , wants to imprison Gerda under pressure from the Commerce Council, the storyteller comes to her aid and duels with the Commerce Council. With the help of Klaus and Elsa, the two can finally escape.
In order to stop Gerda after all, the Kommerzienrat puts a robber chief and her gang on the gold coach. The robbers are happy about the easy prey and want to hand Gerda over to the Kommerzienrat. But when the daughter of the robber chief keeps Gerda as a playmate for herself, the council of commerce commissions one of the robbers to kill the girl. At night he sneaks up to Gerda in the robber's cave, but turns out to be the fairy teller in disguise and frees her. The robber's daughter catches the two of them fleeing, but finally lets herself be softened to let Gerda go and gives her her talking reindeer , who knows the way to the palace of the Snow Queen.
When Gerda reaches the palace of the Snow Queen, she is on her way to stop spring. In the meantime, Kai is supposed to compose the word “ eternity ” from fragments of ice; As a reward, the Snow Queen promised him the whole world and a couple of new ice skates. The internally frozen Kai refuses to go with Gerda at first, but thaws again when his crying sister embraces him and she tells him about home. When the two have already left the palace, the Snow Queen suddenly appears and tries to hold back the siblings; but in vain, since Gerda is no longer afraid of anything and Kai no longer has a cold heart.
The news of Kai's rescue quickly spreads among all the friends Gerda met on her trip. The grandmother happily embraces her grandchildren and the storyteller says that nothing and no one can ever separate them as long as they all stick together.
Production notes, publication
The film was produced by Lenfilm. The location was u. a. the old town (cathedral city) of Tallinn . The children's film , produced by Lenfilm in 1966 , had its Soviet premiere on November 6, 1967 . On December 15, 1967, it was shown in GDR cinemas . Its West German premiere took place on December 25, 2001 on television in the MDR program .
The film was also released in Hungary, France, Greece, Poland and under the title The Snow Queen in the USA.
Icestorm Entertainment GmbH released the film on January 4, 2005 as part of the series “The most beautiful fairy tale classics in Russian film history” with a German soundtrack on DVD. Edel Germany GmbH released the film on DVD on September 16, 2016.
criticism
The KinderFilmWelt website said that the film should be "as romantic and dreamy as a fairy tale". It also said: “The costumes and the rooms create the right mood for every scene. You can laugh at the robbers wonderfully and also in the castle of the greedy king it is strange and funny. So despite all the suspense, the story is also very funny. ”The film tricks clearly show that the“ film is almost fifty years old ”,“ especially with the drawing and puppet animation elements ”. But that's exactly what makes “fun”, because a fairy tale tells “of old times” and fits a “little 'old' film atmosphere wonderfully”.
Also Cinema presented at the special effects from 1966 and wrote, "even if they unintentionally funny nowadays act [would], surprising [e] the film but with original ideas and develope [e] its own charm."
Kino.de said, "the basic idea of the story, an appeal to warmth and humanity, remains perfectly preserved in this Russian fairy tale film too".
Web links
- The Snow Queen in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Snow Queen in the online film database
- The Snow Queen on kino-teatr.ru (Russian)
- The Snow Queen (1966) full movie adS veoh.com
- "The Snow Queen", fairy tale film Soviet Union 1966 adS mdr.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Snow Queen 1966/1967 defa-stiftung.de adS.
- ↑ The Snow Queen In: Eberhard Berger, Joachim Giera u. a. (Ed.): 77 fairy tale films - a film guide for young and old Henschel Verlag, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-362-00447-4 , pp. 175–178.
- ↑ СНЕЖНАЯ КОРОЛЕВА (1966) adS kino-teatr.ru (The Snow Queen).
- ↑ The Snow Queen. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 10, 2017 .
- ↑ The Snow Queen DVD series The most beautiful fairy tale classics in Russian film history.
- ↑ The Snow Queen DVD series fairy tale classics.
- ↑ Die Schneekönigin (1967) ( Memento of the original from June 18, 2017 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. adS kinderfilmwelt.de. Retrieved December 18, 2017.
- ↑ Die Schneekönigin adS cinema.de (with 15 film images). Retrieved December 18, 2017.
- ^ "The Snow Queen": Russian fairy tale film that takes some liberties in adapting Hans-Christian Andersen's original. adS kino.de. Retrieved December 18, 2017.
