The wonder world of the Brothers Grimm

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Movie
German title The wonder world of the Brothers Grimm
Original title The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1962
length 138 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Henry Levin
George Pal
script David P. Harmon
Charles Beaumont
William Roberts
production George Pal
MGM
Cinerama
music Leigh Harline
camera Paul Vogel
cut Walter Thompson
occupation

The Wonder World of the Brothers Grimm is an American fantasy film by Henry Levin and George Pal from 1962 with Laurence Harvey and Karlheinz Böhm in the leading roles.

action

The two linguists Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm are currently working for the local duke, on whose behalf they are to record his family history. To the annoyance of his brother, Wilhelm is more interested in collecting and writing down the folk and house tales that are told in the population in order to preserve this cultural treasure for posterity. One evening he told his own children the fairy tale The Dancing Princess .

When the two brothers have finished their work on the family history, Wilhelm now wants to concentrate fully on the fairy tales and inspire the bookseller Stossel by telling the fairy tale The Shoemaker and the Dwarfs in his shop .

But then Jakob and Wilhelm are called back to the Duke: He considers their work to be incomplete and asks for improvements. And so the two of them take a ship on the Rhine to Rheinburg the next day , where they part in order to collect the relevant material in the archives there. There Wilhelm hears about the old storyteller Anna Richter, who lives in a forest hut near the city. He rushes over there and listens as she tells the local children the fairy tale The Singing Bone . He lets her dictate even more fairy tales and almost misses the ship's departure for the return journey. On his way to the jetty, where he is supposed to meet Jakob again, he stumbles and loses the manuscript of the family history that he was carrying with him unnoticed. When they notice the loss, Jakob reacts angrily and separates from Wilhelm on the spot, as he no longer sees a future for himself with him.

Wilhelm, weakened by pneumonia that he caught in Rheinburg, drags himself to the Duke alone and confesses to him that he has lost the manuscript. He too reacts angrily and demands immediate payment of the rent for the house in which Wilhelm, his family and Jakob could actually live rent-free while working for the Duke. Wilhelm collapses and is brought home. In his feverish dreams, the characters in his fairy tales appear, telling him that they cannot survive without his help. Driven by this, his fever is falling and he is on the mend.

Meanwhile, Jakob, driven by his guilty conscience, has returned home and together with Stossel is able to find the money for the rent. Jakob wants to continue working with Wilhelm and even breaks his engagement to the young Greta Heinrich from Berlin, who then returns to her hometown disappointed. Jakob and Wilhelm publish other linguistic works, but also the collected fairy tales, which are enjoying great success on the book market.

Eventually, the two are made honorary members of the Berlin Academy. But they are offended because the written honor only mentions the scientific works, not the fairy tales. When the two arrive in Berlin, masses of children suddenly flock to the station from all directions and loudly ask them to tell them fairy tales. They are driven by Greta Heinrich, who sees Jakob happily there again. Wilhelm begins the story with Once upon a time ... two inseparable brothers . The children cheer loudly, the film ends here.

Reviews

“Elaborate Hollywood-style set-up film that embeds the three fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm - The Dancing Princess, The Shoemaker and the Dwarfs, The Singing Bone - in a (factually not always correct) biographical framework. Undemanding family entertainment far removed from the spirit of fairy tales. "

- Lexicon of international film

background

Awards

Soundtrack

  • Leigh Harline , Bob Merrill and Charles Beaumont : The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm. Original motion picture soundtrack . On: The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm & The Honeymoon Machine . TCM / Rhino / Film Score Monthly (FSM), Hollywood 2010. Sound carrier no. FSM Vol. 13 No. 4. - Original stereophonic recording of the film music by the MGM Studio Orchestra under the direction of Leigh Harline as well as a recording by the David Rose Orchestra

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The wonder world of the Brothers Grimm. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used