Sleeping Beauty (1955)
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| Original title | sleeping Beauty |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1955 |
| length | 82 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
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| Director | Fritz Genschow |
| script | Fritz Genschow Renée Stobrawa Helga Weichart |
| production | Fritz Genschow film |
| music | Hans-Joachim Wunderlich |
| camera | Gerhard Huttula |
| cut | Albert Baumeister |
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Sleeping Beauty is a German fairy tale film from 1955. It is based on Grimm's fairy tale Sleeping Beauty .
action
Once upon a time there was a royal couple who dearly wanted a child. The Queen believes that any wealth cannot outweigh the happiness of having a child of your own. She learns from the fairy bitter clover that her wish will come true if she takes a magic potion. However, the queen prefers to follow another advice, which is that she should bathe in the clear waters of the wonder lake. On site she recognizes the helping forces of nature, which rise from the mists and take on the dancing forms of the good fairies. When the king child is born, all fairies are to bless the girl's path in life. Only the fairy bitter clover is not invited by the royal couple to give the child their wishes for the future. In revenge, she places a curse on the newborn child, which says that at the age of 16 the girl should stab her finger on a spindle and die from it. Since the imposed curse of death cannot be withdrawn by the fairies present, it is toned down by the twelfth fairy, who has not yet uttered her wishes, and transformed into a hundred-year sleep with the addition that a noble prince, the sleeping girl could redeem. Thereupon the king decreed that his daughter must never find out about the evil spell and had all spindles forbidden in his country. The child grows into a young woman. On her sixteenth birthday, the princess explores a tower room where she discovers an old woman spinning. The princess becomes curious and wants to give it a try. When she picks up the spindle, she stabs her finger so that the curse of the fairy bitter clover is fulfilled. The princess and everyone in and in front of the castle fell into a deep, long sleep. The castle is surrounded by an impenetrable hedge of thorns. During these 100 years no one succeeds in penetrating the rampant rose hedge around the castle and waking the sleeping girl, who is therefore called the Sleeping Beauty. Only when a prince's son approaches courageously and with foreboding does the spell end and the enchanted Sleeping Beauty awakens to new life.
production
Sleeping Beauty was filmed at Monheim Castle, in the Wannsee studio and on Schwanenwerder , among others . The shooting took place from August 23, 1955 to September 23, 1955. The film premiered on November 16, 1955 in the Gloria Palast .
criticism
- The film-dienst wrote: “A film adaptation of the folk tale of the enchanted princess who, after a hundred years of sleep, comes back to life through the heroism of a prince. Narrated in beautiful pastel-colored pictures. The plot with funny marginal characters and ballet interludes shows itself to the traditional model only committed to the basic idea. "
- Review at Kino.de: "One of the classics of the German fairy tale films of the 50s, which falls out of the comfort of the fairy tale films of the time because it works with fun and gags."
Web links
- Sleeping Beauty in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Sleeping Beauty in the online film database
- Sleeping Beauty at filmportal.de
- Sleeping Beauty at croco-film.de (with press material)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Sleeping Beauty at filmportal.de, accessed on February 24, 2013.
- ↑ a b Sleeping Beauty (BRD 1955) ( Memento of the original from October 20, 2014 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. from maerchenfilm.pytalhost.com, accessed February 24, 2013.
- ↑ Sleeping Beauty. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Sleeping Beauty on kino.de, accessed on February 24, 2013. (With pictures)
