Hansel and Gretel (2006)

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Movie
Original title Hansel and Gretel
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2006
length 75 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Anne Wild
script Peter Schwindt
production Ernst Geyer ,
Jürgen Haase ,
Ingelore König
music Mari Boine
camera Wojciech Szepel
cut Dagmar Lichius
occupation

Hansel and Gretel is a German fairy tale film from 2006 . The film is based on the Grimm fairy tale Hansel and Gretel and was produced by Kinderfilm for the ZDF series Märchenperlen .

action

Hansel and Gretel play hide-and-seek in the woods and a narrator introduces the plot.

The siblings live with their father, a poor woodcutter, and their stepmother in a small forest house, where they don't even have the bare essentials to live on. So they no longer have food and have to sell their little furniture because the forest farmer doesn't want to pay any money for their father's wood. As the distress worsens day by day, the stepmother persuades the biological father to abandon the siblings in the forest.

The next morning the family goes into the forest together and abandons the children in a dark place. Hansel, who was clever, scattered pebbles in order to find the way back, because the children know about the abandonment because they were still awake when the parents discussed this. When it dawns and the parents are still not there, they follow the pebble trail back with the full moon. They eventually arrive home, but only their father welcomes their return. The mother is annoyed and finds the pebbles in Hansel's pocket.

In the evening Hansel wants to collect pebbles again because the parents want them to get lost again. While collecting in the evening, Hansel is surprised by his stepmother, who sends him to his room and angrily tears the pebbles out of his hand. The next morning the family went into the forest again and this time Hansel scattered breadcrumbs from the bread that the mother gave the children on the way. Hansel and Gretel do not use this as birds eat the breadcrumbs. So they get lost in the forest and finally fall asleep in a pile of leaves under a rock.

The next morning a colorful bird sings and the siblings follow him. There 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 witch lets Gretel work for her. Hansel is put into the cage and is supposed to be fattened, but can pretend the visually impaired witch by stretching out a bone that he is still thin.

A little later Gretel uses an opportunity to push the wicked witch into the oven. She frees Hansel from the cage and then they go back to the witch's house to look at the treasure and take part of it with them. They leave the house and return richly laden to their father, who is very happy about the arrival of his children and promises never to leave them in the forest again. The stepmother had since passed away.

background

The film was shot from March 8, 2005 to April 21, 2005 around the Thuringian Forest, including in Elgersburg , Friedrichroda , Georgenthal , Manebach , Mühlberg , Schnepfenthal and Tambach-Dietharz .

The TV premiere took place on May 28, 2006.

criticism

“Atmospherically dense adaptation of the well-known fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm about two siblings who are abandoned by their parents in the forest and fall into the clutches of an evil witch. Director Anne Wild consistently gets involved in the story of the fairy tale and its special, anti-psychological and anti-realistic narrative gesture without modernizing or belittling. An exciting, atmospherically dense German Ghost Story ", which paradigmatically addresses childish fears and their overcoming, but could be disturbing for smaller children."

- Lexicon of international film .

Awards

  • International Television Festival Bratislava 2007: Prix ​​Danube
  • International Film Festival for Children and Young People Montevideo 2006: Divercine Unicef ​​Award

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hansel and Gretel. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used