Hansel and Gretel (1971)
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| Original title | Hansel and Gretel |
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| Country of production | Switzerland |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1971 |
| length | 25 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
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| Director | Rudolf Jugert |
| script | Heinz Bothe-Pelzer |
| production | Ullstein AV |
| music | Peter Thomas |
| camera |
Friedl Behn-Grund , Lothar Dreher |
| cut | Alice Ludwig-Rasch |
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Hansel and Gretel is a Swiss short fairy tale by Rudolf Jugert from 1971 . It is based on the Grimm fairy tale Hansel and Gretel .
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 doesn't get enough work to feed his family. When the man comes home that evening after a hard day at work, the children's stepmother is in his ears that he is simply not getting enough money. She wipes off the table that times are bad and that there is nothing more he can do than try to work as a lumberjack. The children hear through the door how the stepmother tries to persuade the father to leave them alone in the forest and listen to the plan that she has come up with. The father doesn't want to get involved. “You fool, then all four of us will have to starve to death,” replies his wife and goes to sleep.
Hansel promises his sister to see that the stepmother's plan goes wrong. He secretly collects pebbles. The next morning the children are woken up early and all four go deeper and deeper into the forest. Hansel inconspicuously drops a pebble at intervals. After a rest, father and stepmother leave the children in the forest by a fire. They would only collect wood, then they would come back. Hansel and Gretel fall asleep. When the siblings wake up some time later, they are still alone. Singing, they follow the pebbles laid out by Hansel and find their way back to their father's hut. They are greeted with joy by the father, but the stepmother reacts gruffly. After a while, Hansel and Gretel have to overhear the stepmother forging a plan to get rid of her. Again the father fails to assert himself against the accusations of his wife and to thwart her evil plan. Since the door of the hut is locked, Hansel cannot collect any stones this time. So he decides to throw breadcrumbs on the path. Again the procedure is repeated like the first time. When the children wake up and look for the bits of bread that have been scattered, they do not find them. It dawns on Hansel that the birds of the forest must have picked her.
The children find their way through the night and then sleep tired on a bench. When Hansel wakes up, he looks into the face of a witch who immediately locks him in a cage. Gretel has to work for her. Hansel wants to fatten them up and then eat him. Since she can barely look, Hansel sticks a bone through the bars as soon as she wants to check whether it is "fat enough". Since he always holds out a bone to her, she reacts disappointed and poisoned: “You just don't get fat. But I don't want to wait any longer. ”So she orders Gretel to heat a large pot of water. She has already heated up the oven for the bread. When Gretel is supposed to check whether the fire in the oven is already hot enough, she asks the witch to show her how to do it and then pushes the evil woman into the oven at a favorable moment and closes the door. Then she quickly frees her brother. But before they both want to go home, they look to see what the old woman is keeping in a box under the bench that they were never allowed to move. Inside there are pearls, gold and precious stones. With their treasure under their arms, the children set off and find their way back to their father. He is overjoyed to be able to hug his children again. The stepmother died, her guilty conscience had plagued her too much. But even his conscience hadn't given him any rest, now he wanted to do everything that they were okay. He is of course happy about the treasure he has brought with him, but he is even more happy that nothing has happened to them and that he has them back.
Production notes
In 1971, Rudolf Jugert filmed a series of short films based on fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm on behalf of the Swiss television station DRS, including this one by Hansel and Gretel .
In the film, the children sing the songs Fidi-fidi-Bum-Bum and Angst, Angst, we are really not afraid ( Das Angstlied ).
What is lost in the feature film is the scene when the children joyfully discover the gingerbread house in the forest. The plot was also released as a radio play at the time. How it came about that Hansel and Gretel woke up in the morning on the bench in front of the Knusperhäuschen is shown there by sound.
The short fairy tale film was released in several editions without the cut out gingerbread house scene on Super8 and VHS. The film has not yet been released on DVD.
criticism
"How Hansel and Gretel [would] master their fate, how they outsmart the sinister witch in their crunchy house, that [was] full of tension and drama," said the website www.maerchenfilm.pytalhost.com.
Web links
- Hansel and Gretel in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Hansel and Gretel in the online film database
- Hansel and Gretel (1971) at movietube.in.de (video)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hänsel and Gretel (1971) ( Memento of the original dated December 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at neanderpeople.npage.de. Retrieved November 23, 2013.
- ↑ Hansel and Gretel (Beats) at mixcloud.com. Retrieved November 23, 2013.
- ↑ Hansel and Gretel (1971) Jugert's lost Knusperhaus scene on soundcloud.com. Retrieved November 23, 2013.
- ↑ a b Hansel and Gretel (1971) ( Memento of the original dated December 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at maerchenfilm.pytalhost.com. Retrieved November 23, 2013.
