Hansel and Gretel (1954, Janssen)

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Movie
Original title Hansel and Gretel
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1954
length 54 minutes
Age rating FSK o. A.
Rod
Director Walter Janssen
script Gerhard F. Hummel
production Schongerfilm Hubert Schonger , Inning am Ammersee
music Giuseppe Becce
camera Wolf swan
occupation

Hansel and Gretel is a German fairy tale film from 1954 directed by Walter Janssen . It is based on the Grimm fairy tale Hansel and Gretel . The siblings are embodied by Jürgen Micksch and Maren-Inken Bielenberg .

In the same year, two further adaptations of the fairy tale were made: Hansel and Gretel (Germany: Director: Fritz Genschow ) and Hansel and Gretel (USA: Director: Michael Myerberg , John Paul ).

action

The siblings Hansel and Gretel live with their parents in a house in the forest. The family is poor, the two children earn some extra money for the family by selling the brooms made by their parents. Your ruthless landlord is pushing for the overdue rent to be paid. The children's father dreams of one day finding the “forest house” in the forest where a witch lives and guards a treasure. During the night when the parents are sleeping, Hansel and Gretel set out to look for the “forest house”. When they encounter a bear in the forest, they are so frightened that they decide to return home.

As the family's need grows, the father decides to look around the woodcutters for a job and the mother wants to ask a farmer about a job. Hansel and Gretel are to be sent to a miller and to the base . At night, the siblings go looking for the forest house again. They mark their way with pebbles to find their way back home. Immediately they come across a house made of gingerbread. When they start to nibble on it, a voice asks: "Crisp, crisp, peck, who is nibbling on my house?"; the children answer: “The wind, the wind, the heavenly child!”. The resident of the house, an old witch, appears and invites the children to eat. Despite Gretel's concerns, Hansel insists on accepting the invitation. At night, while they sleep, the witch makes plans to eat the children.

The next morning the witch lets Gretel work for her. Hansel goes into the cage and is supposed to be fattened, but can pretend to the visually impaired witch by pushing a bone through the bars instead of his finger that he is still too skinny. A little later, Gretel uses an opportunity to push the wicked witch into the oven, whereupon the witch house collapses. In the basement of the house, Hansel and Gretel find the witch's treasure, with which they stuff their pockets. With the help of the pebbles, they find their way back home to the joy of the grieving parents. Of course, the landlord's debts can now be paid and the family's misery is over.

background

All recordings were made in the Schongerfilm studio in Inning am Ammersee . No external recordings took place.

It premiered on September 12, 1954 in Düsseldorf .

The film was shown not only in matinees and special events, but also occasionally in the general cinema program.

The film was first released on DVD on August 3, 2007, published by Kinowelt Home Entertainment. On September 7, 2015, this version was released again on DVD by Hansel and Gretel , publisher: StudioCanal / Kinowelt.

Awards

The film evaluation office of the federal states awarded Hansel and Gretel the film rating “valuable”.

criticism

"An antiquated children's film that artlessly presents the Grimm fairy tale of the two children Hansel and Gretel, who get lost in the forest and have to assert themselves against a wicked witch, in a softened version freed from cruel details."

- Lexicon of international film

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Alfred Bauer: German Feature Film Almanach, Volume 2: 1946–1955 , Munich 1981, p. 424 f.
  2. ↑ Hansel and Gretel DVD
  3. ↑ Hansel and Gretel. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used