Mrs. Holle (1954)

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Movie
Original title Mother Hulda
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1954
length 90 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Fritz Genschow
script Fritz Genschow
production Fritz Genschow Filmproduktion, Berlin
music Richard Stauch
camera Gerhard Huttula
cut Anneliese Krigar
occupation

Frau Holle is a German fairy tale film by Fritz Genschow from 1954. It is based on the Grimm fairy tale of the same name . The title role is played by Renée Stobrawa , the "Goldmarie" is played by Rita-Maria Nowotny , the "Pechmarie" by Erika Petrick .

action

A narrator leads through the story: Once upon a time there was a widow who had two daughters. One of them was beautiful and hardworking and the other vain and lazy. They lived in a small town with hardly any children. This was thanks to the municipal Frau-Holle-Brunnen: Anyone who wanted a “dear girl” or a “nice boy” and drank water from the fountain, their wish came true. But there was the buck who threw all sorts of rubbish into the well, which made the water of the well taste bad. People stopped drinking well water, which meant that there were fewer and fewer children in town. Eventually people forgot that there were children in the first place. Since then you haven't heard happy children's laughter in the town. The legend goes from the Frau-Holle-Brunnen that two of the petrified figures have the power to transform themselves into people. They are the buck and Mrs. Holle. However, both are invisible to humans.

Black Peter is playing a trick on the beautiful and hardworking Rosemarie: He puts a dirty frog on her laundry. When she notices it, she tosses it gently into the bushes in which the buck is gleefully hiding. He also plays a trick on Elsemarie, the widow's vain and lazy daughter: he secretly takes away her hand mirror, in which she often admires, and paints a derogatory caricature of her on the mirror. When she notices this, she calls out angrily for her mother, who only insists that the work be done. After the lazy Elsemarie once again shifted her work to her sister Rosemarie, she claims in front of her mother that she has finished her work and that Rosemarie has not yet done her part. Some time later, Elsemarie and her mother walk through the park to the market where the Frau Holle fountain is located. Rosemarie sits in front of it with the spinning wheel and spins yarn, while Elsemarie and her mother happily look around the market. The buck is there too, playing one trick or two on dealers and their customers. Elsemarie and her mother see the "castle" of Mr. Pins von Panze on the edge of the market. The mother is of the opinion that Pins von Panze is the noblest and richest man in the whole city and wishes that Elsemarie could one day live there as a rich lady of the castle. When the two want to visit the building, they find a dilapidated ruin and after Mr. Pins von Panze trips over the pigs running around, Elsemarie and her mother get up and away. The buck continues to play tricks on the people in the market and thereby creates strife. Puzzlingly, there are suddenly two children (a boy and a girl) on the market, albeit without parents. The buck instigates the children to take part in his pranks. It's just that people can see the children, but not the buck, which is less good for them and has consequences. But then the stone figure of Frau Holle comes to life and frees the children from the barrel in which the buck put them. Frau Holle takes the children with her to her kingdom, where she introduces them to the many other orphaned children. Later they have to go to the children's court to atone for the pranks on earth.

Meanwhile, Rosemarie continues to spin the yarn and spoil it when she stabs herself and it turns bloody. When she tries to wash it out at the Frau-Holle-Brunnen, she falls in and desperately calls for help, which only comes when she is completely under water. With her voice, Mrs. Holle indicates that Rosemarie is in good hands with her and that nothing will happen to her in her kingdom. There the girl fetches loaves from the oven before they burn and fulfills the request of an apple tree to shake it and free it from its load of ripe apples. Mrs. Holle watched Rosemarie. When the girl passes Frau Holle's house, a voice can be heard that belongs to the feather bed hanging out of the window and asks Rosemarie to come into the house and shake out the beds, since it will be winter soon. When Frau Holle arrives, she puts a stop to her, since it is still summer and entrusts the girl with all sorts of other tasks.

Elsemarie has taken a liking to Mr. Pins von Panze while on earth. When Rosemarie gets homesick after a while, she is allowed to return home. As a reward for her services, she is showered with gold so that her clothes are made of pure gold. When she is back in her world, she is received with curiosity. Elsemarie, too, should now come to such wealth. She deliberately injured herself on the spindle, threw the bobbin into the well and jumps after it. The buck also secretly jumps into the water. The widow is turned to stone by Mrs. Holle and now also adorns the fountain as a figure.

In Frau Holle's kingdom, Elsemarie refuses to take the bread out of the oven and shake the apple tree. When Ms. Holle arrives, she is instructed in her duties. But she is too lazy and does her job in a lousy way. Instead of devoting herself to the tasks set by Frau Holle, she makes common with the buck. While Elsemarie is still dreaming of the reward, Black Peter is doing mischief again: He leads the children, who work hard for Frau Holle, from her kingdom to earth, where he then leaves them alone. When Rosemarie sees the children again, she asks good-natured people who take in one or the other child. Frau Holle comes to earth and demotes the buck as a figure at the well. When she sees the petrified widow, she hurries back to her kingdom. She goes to Elsemarie, who fell asleep while shaking her bed. When Mrs. Holle dismissed her shortly afterwards and asked for her reward, she was showered with bad luck. Once on top of the earth, she is mocked. The widow comes back to life. Elsemarie tries in vain to wash off the bad luck. When Rosemarie asks Frau Holle for help, she gets the answer: "If Elsemarie will be hardworking for a year, she will be clean again." Meanwhile, Rosemarie marries her Hans, who was very sorry when she fell into the well. But Elsemarie is also finally happy with her Mr. Pins von Panze, who has had some bad luck from her.

production

Ms. Holle was filmed in Berlin-Kreuzberg , Berlin-Wannsee and in the Glienicker Schlosspark , among others . The shooting took place from September 7, 1954 to October 8, 1954. The film premiered on December 5, 1954 in the Gloria Palast .

The film has an additional black and white frame story .

The film was released on DVD on March 6, 2003.

Reviews

The film-dienst wrote: "Filming of the fairy tale of the Brothers Grimm, because of the dissolution into too many, dramaturgically unconnected individual scenes on the one hand and the flat and belittling design antiquated and involuntarily funny nowadays."

The film evaluation board said at the time that the film was "valuable" and the Kölnische Zeitung added "the children will say particularly valuable."

Award

In 1954, the film adaptation of the fairy tale received the rating: “Valuable” from the film evaluation agency.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Mrs. Holle at filmportal.de
  2. ↑ a b c d Frau Holle (FRG 1954) see page maerchenfilm.info. Retrieved December 13, 2019.
  3. ↑ Mrs. Holle. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  4. ↑ Frau Holle , feature film from 1954 at filmportal.de. Retrieved February 26, 2013.