Hansel and Gretel (2012)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Hansel and Gretel |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2012 |
| length | 60 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Uwe Janson |
| script | David Ungureit |
| production | Askania Media |
| music |
Michael Klaukien , Andreas Lonardoni |
| camera | Christopher Rowe |
| cut | Melania Singer |
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Hänsel und Gretel is a German fairy tale film from 2012. It is based on the fairy tale of the same name by the Brothers Grimm and was produced by Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg in coproduction with Saarländischer Rundfunk for the ARD series Six in One Stroke .
action
Hansel and Gretel live with their father, a poor woodcutter , and their stepmother in a small house on the edge of the forest. The family is very poor. The timber trade can no longer generate enough that there is hardly any money for a living. When the dealer comes by, who usually bought wood from his father and he asks for three loaves of bread and a bacon rind for it, it is too expensive for the man and he leaves without taking anything from the poor woodcutter, which further increases the need. So it happens that the stepmother can persuade her husband to abandon the children in the forest. Already on the following day, the parents Hansel and Gretel lead deep into the forest and leave them behind in the thick wood. Hansel, who overheard a conversation between the parents, left a trail with pebbles as a precaution to find the way back home. However, the pebbles are not enough that he has to take breadcrumbs for part of the way. As the breadcrumbs are picked up by hungry birds, the children find it difficult to find the right path.
On their odyssey through the forest, the children come across a house made of gingerbread . When they start to nibble on it, a voice asks: “Crisp, crisp, knuckle, who's nibbling on my house?” Hansel and Gretel shout in chorus: “The wind, the wind, the heavenly child!” Suddenly a pretty boy stands Woman in front of them and asks the children what they would do alone in the forest. She can get Hansel and Gretel to follow her to the Knusperhäuschen. The children are amazed at how big the interior is and what there is to see. The young woman asks Hansel and Gretel to come to the table, who, as if by magic, fills up with so many delicacies that he almost collapses under them. At the end of the day, she hangs a large gingerbread heart with the respective name on each child's neck. Hansel and Gretel fill their bellies so full that they can barely move. When they both fell asleep, exhausted, the witch forges , because that's what she really is, plans for how she will proceed in order to be able to eat the children in the end. The next morning she lets Gretel work for her. Hansel comes into a barred dungeon and is supposed to be fattened, but in the time that follows can pretend to the witch, who is visually weak in the light, that he is still too skinny by holding out a bone instead of his finger .
When the merchant and his children visit the lumberjack family again, only the stepmother is present. Without saying a lot about it, she joins the dealer and his children with a sack full of her belongings . Meanwhile, the father, who has long since regretted his decision, is looking for his children and meets the forest fairy Marie, who helps him and who seems to connect a secret from a long time ago with the witch. When he asks her why she wouldn't eat Jakob, a white duck who is always with the forest fairy, she answers firmly that Jakob has been with her for ages, he is not to eat. Marie tells the father that her parents did the same to her sister and her. They would also have abandoned her, together with Jakob and Wilhelm, a black duck, in the forest. Over time, she had come to terms with it and began to live on the fruits of the forest, but her sister had started to hate her parents, there was no room for any other feeling. She got angry and one day disappeared completely.
Meanwhile, Gretel tries to defend herself against the witch, with a hopping chair to help her. When Hansel tries to persuade his sister to run away, she says that she will not leave him alone. With the argument that she could perhaps get help, he brings his sister to it and she marches off. When she crossed a line of dry branches marked around the gingerbread house , suddenly woody twigs wrap around her legs and she was shocked to see that her hands had turned into branches made of wood. Only retreat can save them from not becoming a tree. Back in the witch's house, Gretel hears the witch say that today is Sunday, the day on which she will eat Hansel as a Sunday roast and before that she will enjoy Gretel as a starter. However, she sees through her plan to push the witch into the oven. While escaping through the Knusperhaus, Gretel succeeds in taking the witch's magic amulet and threatening her that she will throw it into the open embers if the witch doesn't stop. When she rushes towards Gretel anyway, the bouncing chair stands in her way and she ends up in a high arc in the fire that the sparks just soar. Gretel frees her brother and the children are amazed to see that the frog that was always with the witch turns into a black duck. Now the children manage to cross the tree line, the magic seems to be broken, they stay as they are. In disbelief, however, they see that children crawl out of many dead trees lying on the ground and stretch and stretch and hug each other happily. They all fell victim to the witch. Then the children see their father, who approaches them with the forest fairy and the white duck Jakob. Gretel hugs her father happily. Hansel is still waiting for him; but when he thinks he is so sorry for all of this, he also takes refuge in his arms. On the forest fairy's neck, Gretel sees the other half of the amulet that the witch always wore and that she has with her. She hands it to Marie, and when she joins the halves, they shine golden. The two ducks have also met again, the black and the white, and chatter towards each other. The father introduces the forest fairy to his children and says that it is Marie.
background
The shooting took place from April 11, 2012 to May 1, 2012. The film was shot around Berlin and Brandenburg, including in the Brandenburg town of Kammerode. The witch's house in the Babelsberg film park was recreated from the film. The interior shots for the witch house were made in the Arena Treptow .
The fairy tale film premiered on October 14, 2012 at 10:00 a.m. in the ARD cinema. Hansel and Gretel was released on DVD on November 15, 2012, and the TV premiered on December 26, 2012.
Reviews
Moviepilot said: "How Hansel and Gretel defeat the witch and the father finds his children again with the help of the herb fairy Marie (Anja Kling) can be seen in this imaginative version of Grimm's classic."
The TV critic and media journalist Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv goes into raptures when he explains that “this fairy tale film by Uwe Janson and David Ungureit is one of the highlights of the ARD series“ Six in one stroke ”, which started in 2008 and which meanwhile had reached 26 sixty minutes, [was]. From the gloomy look it goes briefly to supposed paradise, then the terrible prevails, before a downright magical, enchanting well-being person [e] happily discharges large and small viewers from the film. ”[…] His conclusion is : Wonderfully exciting, wonderfully dense, enchantingly played, magical, seductive, touching.
Web links
- Hansel and Gretel in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Hansel and Gretel at filmportal.de
- Hansel and Gretel in the online film database
- Hansel and Gretel at crew united
- Hansel and Gretel at Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Hansel and Gretel . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , October 2012 (PDF; test number: 135 607 V).
- ^ Witches' House from Hansel and Gretel filmpark-babelsberg.de
- ↑ Hansel and Gretel : "Hexenhaus is now in the Babelsberg Film Park" ( memento of the original from February 9, 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 rbb-online.de
- ↑ ARD cinema screening “Hansel and Gretel” ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at hr-online.de
- ↑ Hansel and Gretel at Moviepilot.de. Retrieved February 3, 2013.
- ^ " Hansel and Gretel " series at tittelbach.tv. Retrieved February 3, 2013.
