The wonder world of the Brothers Grimm
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. "
background
- Producer George Pal made the film for MGM and Cinerama . For both film companies, it was the second feature film to be shot in the three-strip Cinerama format and it was still shown in the cinemas That Was the Wild West .
- Two directors were involved in the film: George Pal, who made use of his puppet-ons and stop-motion technology, took on the direction of the three fairy tale episodes. Henry Levin directed the framework story, which took place in the autumn of 1961 in Rothenburg ob der Tauber , Dinkelsbühl , Weikersheim Castle , Spay , in the Rhine Valley and near Neuschwanstein Castle . The Regensburger Domspatzen had an appearance as the children's choir of Rheinburg .
Awards
- 1963: Oscar: Best Costumes in a Color Film
- 1963: Oscar nomination: Best Cinematography in a Color Film
- 1963: Oscar nomination: Best equipment in a color film
- 1963: Oscar nomination: Best music adaptation
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
literature
- Brothers Grimm : The Dancing Shoes , The Shoemaker and the Dwarfs and The Singing Bone . in this .: Children's and Household Tales. Last hand edition. With an appendix of all fairy tales not published in all editions . Edited by Heinz Rölleke . Reclam library. Reclam, Stuttgart 2009, 951 pp., ISBN 978-3-15-010724-9
Web links
- The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The wonder world of the Brothers Grimm in the online film database
- The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The wonder world of the Brothers Grimm. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .