A Christmas Tale (2001)

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Movie
German title A Christmas fairy tale
Original title Christmas Carol: The Movie
Country of production United Kingdom , Germany
original language English
Publishing year 2001
length 71 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
Rod
Director Jimmy T. Murakami
script Piet Kroon ,
Robert Llewellyn
production Iain Harvey
music Julian Nott
cut Taylor Grant (animation),
Martin Brinkler (real film)
synchronization

A Christmas fairy tale (Original title: Christmas Carol: The Movie ) is a Christmas film from 2001 by director Jimmy T. Murakami . The plot is largely based on the 1843 story A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens .

action

The greedy Ebenezer Scrooge buys up a debtor's book from Mr. Leach and gives it to his debt collector Joe. He has all debtors who cannot fully settle their debts immediately imprisoned and their belongings sold. This also affects Dr. Lambert, whose hospital for the poor must therefore be closed. His nurse Belle was once the childhood sweetheart of Scrooge and writes a letter of appeal so that people can have a doctor again. Belle was the best friend of Scrooge's sister, Fan.

Scrooge himself hates Christmas and pours cold water on a group of Christmas singers in front of his house. He meets little Tim, who is the son of his employee Mr. Cratchit. It makes Tim sick. One evening Scrooge receives a visit from the ghost of his business partner Marley, who died seven years ago. He explains that he is still haunted by three different spirits. The first the next morning when the bell strikes. The spirit of Christmas past leads him to his former school and his strict father, who sent him after school to an apprenticeship with Fezziwig in London, as well as to his childhood sweetheart Belle, who separated from him shortly before the planned marriage due to his hard-heartedness.

The spirit of the present Christmas brings him to the Christmas parties of his nephew Fred and his clerk Mr. Cratchit. The spirit of the future shows him the death of little Tim and his own grave, as well as the reactions of people to his death. Scrooge wakes up on Christmas Day morning with nothing but good resolutions. He has a boy buy a goose to bring to Cratchit. Scrooge tells his debt collectors that he no longer needs their services. Dr. Lambert is released from prison and can treat little Tim and Scrooge quadruples his employee Cratchit's salary. Scrooge even meets Belle again, who realizes that he now deeply regrets all the lost years. It is at least implied that the two will get back together.

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Role (cartoon) Original voice German voice
Ebenezer Scrooge Simon Callow Lutz Mackensy
Belle Kate Winslet Ulrike Stürzbecher
Marley Nicolas Cage Martin Keßler
Christmas past spirit Jane Horrocks Heidrun Bartholomäus
Christmas spirit present Michael Gambon Hans-Werner Bussinger
Bob Cratchit Rhys Ifans Michael Iwannek
Mrs. Cratchit / Mother Gimlet Juliet Stevenson n / A
Old Joe (Joe Hoggs) Robert Llewellyn Kaspar Eichel
Fred Iain Jones Norman Matt
Fezziwig Colin McFarlane n / A
fan Beth Winslet n / A
Dr. Lambert Arthur Cox Roland Hemmo
Mr. Leach / Undertaker Keith Wickham n / A
Role (real film) actor German voice
Charles Dickens Simon Callow Lutz Mackensy
Theater manager James Jordan n / A
screaming woman Tracey O'Flaherty n / A

background

  • In the original version, the film begins and ends with real-life scenes in which you see Charles Dickens, played by Simon Callow , reading his story A Christmas Carol to an audience in a theater in Boston during a reading tour through the USA .
  • Alternate titles for the film are Christmas Carol and Charles Dickens - A Christmas Tale .
  • The theme song What If is sung by Kate Winslet . It is played in one of the last scenes when Scrooge walks alone through the city after his conversion and realizes how much joy he has missed in his life so far.

Reviews

“Insignificant animated film based on Charles Dickens' Christmas story in the large-scale style of a morning show. It begins with real scenes that show the writer on a book tour in America before the actual plot begins, which develops from the point of view of mice. "

- Lexicon of international film

“For younger viewers, an animated adaptation of Charles Dickens' Christmas classic, which tells the famous story from the perspective of mice and also allows some freedom in interpretation. The animation is not very unusual, the original speakers for the characters, on the other hand, with Kate Winslet, Nicolas Cage and Rhys Ifans, are first class. "

- Kino.de

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for a Christmas fairy tale . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , October 2003 (PDF; test number: 95 485 V / DVD).
  2. ^ Film review by Kino.de