Sleeping Beauty (1990)
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| German title | sleeping Beauty |
| Original title | Šípková Růženka (Czech.) Šípová Ruženka (Slovak.) |
| Country of production | Czechoslovakia , Federal Republic of Germany , France |
| original language | Czech , German , French |
| Publishing year | 1990 |
| length | 94 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
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| Director | Stanislav Párnický |
| script | Jana Kákošová |
| music |
Adriena Bartošová , Andrej Šeban |
| camera | Laco Kraus |
| cut | Eduard Klenovský |
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Sleeping Beauty is a fairy tale , the meticulously in the course of action to the Sleeping Beauty tale Aarne-Thompson index 410 of the Grimm holds, and moreover cinematically the Grimm tale psychological depth. The film was made in cooperation with the Czech Republic , Slovakia , France and the Federal Republic of Germany and is a production by Omnia Film in Munich, Slovenská filmová tvorbá in Bratislava in cooperation with RAIUNO / SACIS / TVE - Films du Saber. What is striking in this film adaptation of Sleeping Beauty is the visual connection between dreams and fairy tales . The film premiered in 1990.
actor
The Slovak actress Dana Dinková made her film debut with the portrayal of the fragile Sleeping Beauty . At her side, the internationally sought-after actor Gedeon Burkhard played the role of Princes Wilhelm and Johann - with a sense of the fairytale atmosphere. Jozef Adamovic, who played King Leopold, also starred in the Czech fairytale film The Firebird . The woman at his side, Queen Christine, played the famous actress Judy Winter. The versatile Czech fairy tale actress Milena Dvorská played Sleeping Beauty's confidante Maria; Interestingly enough, she played Queen Elizabeth in the other Czech Sleeping Beauty film How to Wake Up the Sleeping Beauty .
action
Expectation
The impatient King Leopold is waiting and his court is waiting with them. The queen has the long-awaited child. But will it be a boy, a young Leopold, the desired heir to the throne ? The Queen is haunted by confused dreams: from a tower hovering veil - predicts a toad, "You have waited long queen, you will give birth to a child." - The young queen runs her husband by a rose tunnel, a Rosenhag , contrary. He rushes to her in the rosy light with a bouquet of red roses, but when he tries to hand her the flowers, the bouquet has withered.
sleeping Beauty
Queen Christine had a beautiful girl. Somewhat insecure, the king showered the child with tenderness. But the little one should not be named after her father Leopoldine. The Queen thinks that the child sleeps like the rose of thorns , that she should be named Sleeping Beauty after her favorite flower. The uncertain but still needy king is threatened by his minister with whispers: The courtier wants to increase property and mint coins: Leopoldine coins - earned through growing flax and spinning mills - are supposed to give the name of the weak king a future.
Fairies
The slight disappointment of not getting a male successor is offset by an excess of pomp . The king demands that all thirteen fairies in the country be invited to the daughter's baptism. There is a general opinion that this is madness and presumption - normally only three fairies would come to the cradle of a newborn. But undeterred, the king gives instructions to cast thirteen gold plates for the fairies. But the last plate ran out of gold and the minister advised to unload the thirteenth fairy - the thirteenth would "only" be responsible for fate anyway and would not give gifts like the other twelve - Leopold agrees with the unloading in a reckless and influenceable manner Fate fairy too. Meanwhile, Leopold's messengers travel across the country in search of fairies. Loaded with gifts, they find the mysterious under the tree of life . The fairies happily want to give the little princess the great gift of their gifts - when the news comes that the thirteenth fairy has been discharged - the fate fairy warns.
Baptism festival
Royal guests are invited to the baptism, including the neighboring king Philip and his many children, including the little Prince Wilhelm. In the eyes of the presumptuous Leopold this king is a have-not - his son should never become the bridegroom of Sleeping Beauty. The Minister applauds this cheek. The company waits irritably: the fairies finally appear. The princess is gifted with enchanting beauty, wisdom, health, wealth, generosity, courage, love of truth, kindness, imagination, patience and talent. The twelfth fairy lays a rose in the child's cradle, when the rose blossoms, love enters Sleeping Beauty's life. Presumptuous, in unconscious fatherly jealousy, the self-satisfied Leopold resists - the child could prick the rose - then the thirteenth fairy appears: She predicts the child's fate will be dark. Sleeping Beauty's love rose will not bloom, but will wither with the rose. According to Leopold's will, she would not marry Prince Wilhelm. When she was fifteen, Leopold's daughter would stab herself on a spindle and close her eyes forever. Great excitement follows the curse, the fairies have disappeared. But then the twelfth love rose fairy steps into the light again. But even she cannot lift the curse, only mitigate it by prophesying to the child: You will not die Princess Sleeping Beauty if my gift of love leads your savior to you after a hundred years.
The golden cage
There is fear in the kingdom. The king wants to protect his child. Sleeping Beauty must not find out about the curse, she must not sting anything, not get too close to any danger. All roses are torn from the royal garden and spinning wheels are inspected. But when the king also wants to ban spinning in the whole country, the minister fears for his profits. In the country, flax is still processed into linen, but every spinning wheel in the castle is burned. Therefore no life is allowed to enter the castle. Sleeping Beauty grows up in complete isolation. Subordinates between the ages of seventeen and fifty-seven are expelled from the castle - with the exception of the scheming minister. This is not the blooming country that the king dreamed of for his child, but he hurries on, orders a spinner named Maria to the castle so that at least one of them knows about the dangerous spinning wheels and knows where the crockery and the spindle are. The happy Maria can interpret dreams. She becomes the closest confidante of the beautiful fourteen-year-old princess. The elderly ladies-in-waiting and the well-ordered calm of the castle make Sleeping Beauty sad. The beautiful, trapped girl, from whom all life is withheld, has many questions. Sleeping Beauty nurses a pigeon she finds with a broken wing. Mary helps, but the bird must remain free, must be able to fly. But what is freedom for the captive princess, an indefinite longing? She is always guarded. King and Queen visit their country. Then they hear mockery of Sleeping Beauty: Is the hidden princess, invisible to the people, really that beautiful? The angry king then decides to let his daughter paint.
Prince Wilhelm
Queen Christine sent the portrait of Sleeping Beauty to King Philip for his son and invited Prince Wilhelm. The queen hopes to get married as a remedy for the curse. The handsome prince is on his way. The twelfth rose fairy also hopes for love - love is the only thing that can change a person's fate; but the thirteenth sister, the fairy of fate, sneers in disbelief: “What people are capable of love - mostly it's just selfishness.” Meanwhile, Sleeping Beauty managed to get her parents to take her with them. According to the will of the king, the path leads through barren wilderness. The car gets stuck in the mud. Sleeping Beauty gets out and gets lost in the forest. She finds Prince Wilhelm at a wild waterfall. Both are charmed by each other. But soon the excited parents have Sleeping Beauty back in their care. But Prince Wilhelm follows and stays as a guest at the castle, where, to the annoyance of King Wilhelm and the princess, lose their hearts to each other. But there are also disagreements between the two: Sleeping Beauty defends her parents, who, in the prince's eyes, suffer from paranoia. The beautiful princess angrily refuses the suggestion to flee; When the two make up again, they ride wildly through the castle garden, with the delicate princess falling. Annoyed, the king and queen chase Prince Wilhelm away, this time in rare unity.
The sleep
Following the whisperings of his false minister, the fear-plagued King Sleeping Beauty took away all joy. Prince Wilhelm is expelled from the court, Maria, the princess's confidante, also had to leave, and even the young lovers Margit and Michael, who were among the servants , were separated against Sleeping Beauty's will. The princess then helped Margit escape. However, she herself does not manage to leave her parents and flee from the farm. Events are coming to a head. One sends to Prince Wilhelm. But then the fairy of fate appears and lures the girl into the tower, where she instructs her to spin. It happens as it has to: Sleeping Beauty stabs her finger and falls into a deep sleep, and with her the entire court . The beautiful girl is woven in with glittering threads - an impenetrable rose thicket spins above him and the castle with all the outbuildings. When King Philip arrives with his son, Prince Wilhelm, everything is surrounded by magical roses that do not allow any entry. Death lurks in the hedge.
Prince Johann
Prince Wilhelm is pressured into a hapless forced marriage. - Decades go by. Wilhelm, great-grandfather of Prince Johann, has become an old man. He can't even play the lute anymore. Johann is the image of young Wilhelm. At the rose hedge the children sing the ringlets of the sleeping king's daughter: Sleeping Beauty was a beautiful child ... Then dreamy Johann is gripped by the longing for Sleeping Beauty. He can get over the hedge unscathed, even though his great-grandfather wants to prevent him. After 100 years, the prince finds Sleeping Beauty asleep, wakes her up with a kiss and, with the blessing of the twelfth rose fairy, receives the hand of his daughter and the crown of the empire from King Leopold.
Fairy tale fabric
The film is based entirely on the Brothers Grimm's Sleeping Beauty model : The toad's prediction, the missing thirteenth plate, the gifts of the fairies, the beauty of Sleeping Beauty, the hundred years of sleep. However, some things are carefully expanded: the story of the prince who returns as an alter ego and great-grandson of Sleeping Beauty's lover after a hundred years, the mystical tree of life of the fairies and the unwilling fate fairy, who is also the thirteenth at Grimm. And in the psychology of Sleeping Beauty and her parents, fate finds willing marionettes in the fairytale sequence. It seems like a director's instruction for the film when Eugen Drewermann writes about Sleeping Beauty that she cannot grow up because she is unable to break away from the fateful, fearful and guilty bond with her father. In the film, Sleeping Beauty protests against fleeing with or to her Prince Wilhelm twice for no apparent reason. Sleeping Beauty is only ready when it is too late and the messenger of death, the fairy of fate, asks her to come along. Queen Christine also behaves in the spirit of the anima doctrine, as it was presented for the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale by Hedwig von Beit and Marie-Louise von Franz in The Symbolism of the Fairy Tale . Fearful dreams about the birth of Sleeping Beauty indicate a disproportion between the parents. The bond between the father and his daughter complicates the queen even when giving her name; here, fatefully, the queen prefers the “sleeping” rose of thorns as the name of the princess. The queen's strange affection for King Philip and his children, and King Leopold's strange dislike for them, point to a hidden secret of the queen in this regard. Finally, Christine confesses to her daughter that she alone is the fulfillment of all her wishes - psychologically a clear announcement that the daughter should live her mother's unlived life. Corresponding fear and obsession with the father lead to the inevitable misfortune of Sleeping Beauty. And really only Sleeping Beauty's own freedom to love can defeat a hundred years of sleep.
Pictures and music
The rosy, dreamy fairy-tale light of the film and the entanglement of the magic of roses are reminiscent of the images of the Briar Rose cycle by Edward Burne-Jones and his Sleeping Beauty picture. However, the beauty of the princess of the type is more borrowed from the La Belle au bois dormant from 1867 - illustrations by Gustave Doré . Dana Dinková is a delicate Doré beauty. And the costumes of the film correspond less to Edward Burne-Jones' Sleeping Beauty robes, but rather to the chronological assignment of Doré's Sleeping Beauty pictures to fashion around 1600: Mannerist with raised collars, ruffles and tight-fitting dresses. The music, a simple lute melody - performed by Prince Wilhelm - is often stretched in the sense of the dreamlike nature of the event - similar to how some dream images in the film are stretched through slow motion. In the mysterious handling of veils and mirrors, the Sleeping Beauty film is comparable to the French film by Jean Cocteau : La Belle et la Bête .
German and other versions
There is a Czech, a Slovak, a German and a French original version of the Sleeping Beauty film. The German version was written and directed by Joachim Brinkmann and the editing was done by Joachim G. Staab .
The Sleeping Beauty film is known under the Czech title Šípková Růženka , under the English title Sleeping Beauty , under the Finnish title Prinsessa Ruusunen under the French title La belle au bois dormant , under the Italian title La bella addormentata , and under the Slovak title Šípová Ruženka .
This film version of Sleeping Beauty was released on DVD on November 30, 2006.
criticism
- “Fairy tale film based on the Brothers Grimm. - The attempt to visualize the fairy tale of the curse and its consequences was only partially successful. Even if the film shows a high level of empathy for the subject, it sometimes gets in its own way with its strenuous search for beautiful pictures. Still good entertainment for children. ” - Lexicon of international films
literature
- Brothers Grimm : Sleeping Beauty in Children's and Household Tales; Introduction by Hermann Grimm and afterword by Heinz Rölleke; Artemis & Winkler; Munich, 1997; ISBN 978-3-538-05388-5
- Charles Perrault : The beauty who slept in the forest - La Belle au bois dormant in Perrault's fairy tales on pp. 41–110 in The Cabinet of the Fairies , French fairy tales of the 17th and 18th centuries; ed. by Friedmar Apel and Norbert Miller, Winkler-Verlag Munich, 1984; ISBN 3-538-05336-7
Individual evidence
- ↑ Fairy tale motif The Sleeping Beauty in K. Derungs Maerchenlexikon
- ^ Eugen Drewermann : Sleeping Beauty ; Walter-Verlag, 2005, ISBN 978-3-530-17011-5
- ↑ Hedwig von Beit and Marie-Louise von Franz : The symbolism of the fairy tale in 3 volumes; Francke-Verlag, 1997, ISBN 978-3-7720-1171-9 ; ISBN 978-3-7720-1392-8 ; ISBN 978-3-7720-1393-5
- ↑ Edward Burne-Jones: Briar Rose
- ^ Gustave Doré: La Belle au bois dormant
- ↑ The costume fashion around 1600 was also the model for the film The Prince and the Evening Star ; In the case of Sleeping Beauty, however, this fashion is more elongated and distorted and, above all, clearly dominated by shades of red. To the rose-red colors of the film contrasts complementary the green of Samtgewandes of Prince William and Prince John.
- ↑ Sleeping Beauty on DVD At: prisma.de
- ↑ Sleeping Beauty. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .