Hansel and Gretel (1940)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Hansel and Gretel |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1940 |
| length | 76 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK o. A. |
| Rod | |
| Director | Hubert Schonger |
| script | Hubert Schonger |
| production |
Hubert Schonger for Schongerfilm |
| camera | Edgar Ziesemer |
| occupation | |
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Hansel and Gretel is a German fairy tale film by Hubert Schonger from 1940. The film is based on the Grimm fairy tale Hansel and Gretel . The film started in the German Reich in the same year.
The film Hansel and Gretel is Gunnar Möller's film debut.
action
Hansel and Gretel live in a house in the woods with their father, a poor wood chopper, and their stepmother in great poverty. The father does not get a job as a forest worker and is therefore unable to provide sufficient care for his family. As the need increases day by day, the children's stepmother persuades the siblings' biological father to abandon them in the forest.
The next morning the family goes together into the forest together, where the parents leave the children in a dark place. Before that, they at least lit a fire. Since Hansel overheard the parents when they were discussing their plan, the smart boy put pebbles in his pockets and scattered them on the way into the forest to find the trail back home. When dusk falls and the children's vague hope that their parents would bring them back evaporates, they follow the pebble trail that Hansel has laid in the light of the full moon. When they return home, the father is happy and relieved, but the stepmother is annoyed and persuades her husband to take the children deeper into the forest the following day and leave them there.
When Hansel wants to collect pebbles again in the evening, he finds the front door locked, so that his beautiful plan does not work. When the family went into the forest the next day, Hansel scattered crumbs on the path, which he turned off from the bread that the stepmother gave the children. Hungry birds, however, peck at the breadcrumbs, so that the children cannot find their way back home and get lost in the forest.
After a while they come across a house made of gingerbread. When they start to nibble hungry and amazed, they suddenly hear a voice asking: “Crispy, crispy, knuckle, who is cracking my house?” The children answer: “The wind, the wind, the heavenly child!” The inhabitant of the Häusens, an old witch, appears and invites Hansel and Gretel to dinner. Despite Gretel's concerns, Hansel insists on accepting the invitation. How are the children supposed to suspect that the witch intends to fatten Hansel in order to then eat him and later bake Gretel in the oven.
The next morning, the witch locks Hansel in a cage to fatten him and lets Gretel work for her. Some time later, Gretel takes an opportunity to shove the wicked witch into the oven. She quickly frees her brother Hansel from the cage. The siblings discover a chest and when they open it they find gold and precious stones. They stuff their pockets with it, leave the witch's house and find their way back home. They return home richly laden to their father, who is very happy to be able to hug his children safely. He had very quickly regretted leaving her in the woods. The stepmother had since passed away.
Background notes
The first film adaptation of Hansel and Gretel was made by the film pioneer Oskar Messter , who produced the Grimm fairy tale in 1897 as a silent film. Various other films followed, for example in 1921 by Hans Walter Kornblum and in 1932 by Alf Zengerling . This film adaptation from 1940 is the first implementation of the fairy tale as a sound film. The film recordings were all made in the studio, including those in the fairytale forest.
Fourteen years later, in 1954 , Hubert Schonger filmed the fairy tale again under the direction of Walter Janssen . Fritz Genschow brought 1954 also been a film adaptation. Another film adaptation was shot in the USA in 1954 .
See also
literature
- Ron Schlesinger: Little Red Riding Hood in the Third Reich. The German fairy tale film production between 1933 and 1945. An overview. , Berlin 2009.
Web links
- Hansel and Gretel at filmportal.de
- Hansel and Gretel re-release poster at filmportal.de
- Nazi propaganda invasion of the fairy tale kingdom at einestages.spiegel.de
- Hansel and Gretel in the online film database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hansel and Gretel - silent film from 1897
- ↑ Hansel and Gretel - silent film from 1921
- ↑ Books - Little Red Riding Hood in the Third Reich ( Memento from January 31, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )