Hansel & Gretel

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Movie
German title Hansel & Gretel
Original title Hansel-gwa Gretel ( 헨젤 과 그레텔 )
Country of production South Korea
original language Korean
Publishing year 2007
length 112 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Yim Phil-sung
script Kim Min-sook
Yim Phil-sung
production Choi Jae-won
Seo Woo-sik
music Lee Byung-woo
camera Kim Ji-yong
cut Kim Sun-min
occupation

Hansel & Gretel is a South Korean mystery film by director Yim Phil-sung from 2007. The film was released on DVD in September 2009 in Germany .

action

When Eun-soo was on the phone with his pregnant girlfriend while he was driving, he got off the street and lost consciousness after the accident. When he wakes up, a girl with a lantern appears and leads him to a house in the forest where she lives with her family. Eun-soo is grateful to be able to rest first, but would like to make a phone call. However, the phone failed a few days ago and the technicians have still not come to repair it. In the house, next to Young-hee, who found him, live her older brother Man-bok, her younger sister Jung-soon and their parents. Eun-soo decides to stay the night and return the next day.

When he leaves the house the next morning, he cannot find the way back and returns to the house that night. He asks his parents to show him the way, but the man is on vacation and does not have to go into town. In addition, Jung-soon is sick and they have to take care of her. After the parents had already behaved conspicuously before, they disappeared the next day and only a piece of paper can be found. Eun-soo should take care of the children. He decides to try again to leave the forest and send someone for the children. But again he does not find the way, although Man-bok gave him a plan. This time he even runs into another couple and Man-bok who leads the couple to the house. Eun-soo warns her about the house, to her incomprehension. The couple are deacon Byun and Kyung-sook.

On returning to the house, Eun-soo notices other oddities. He finds the children's mother in the attic, who is not their mother at all. She would hide from the children there. One day they too had a car accident and came to the house from which there was no going back. Kyung-sook treats the children very roughly. The next day she disappeared. When Eun-soo visits the woman in the attic again, she is a doll. Eun-soo still spends time with the children. He also tries to solve the riddle of the house in order to return. One day Jung-soon and Young-hee ask him about a fairy tale. Eun-soo tells them about a prince and his mother and a pregnant wife, and that the prince came to a children's house from which he cannot escape, although his mother and wife are waiting for him. An analogy to his life. He clearly notices that the children want him to stay forever.

The next evening, Eun-soo Man-bok follows through the forest to a clearing with a single door. Man-bok goes through this and disappears. When he returns, Eun-soo goes through too and ends up in a room full of books that contain the stories of the people who came to the house. Suddenly the sleepwalking Young-hee comes in. This appears visibly aged in the room. He finds documents about her that the children are older than him. Deacon Byun has now seen through the game and thinks the children are devils. Returning to the house, a fight ensues in which Eun-soo can protect the children and Byun loses consciousness. He asks the children what happened in that house. It was an orphanage where the children were cruelly mistreated. One day Santa Claus came and gave them the fairy tale book Hansel and Gretel . This gives the children strength so that each of their wishes would come true if they believed in them enough. They put the head of the orphanage in the oven and created a paradise for themselves.

But the people who came would leave them again and again. Meanwhile Deacon Byun wakes up. The children and Eun-soo can again successfully assert themselves against him and he dies. Eun-soo wants the children to understand that he has to go back to his wife. But still they hesitate. Eventually, Young-hee tells him he'll have to burn the book with his story in order to escape. After doing this, he wakes up near the road and can return home. He still worries about the children. On Christmas Eve he suddenly finds a hand-painted book with three happy children under the Christmas tree. Finally you see Man-bok, Young-hee and Jung-soon walking down the street together in front of the house.

reception

Hansel & Gretel opened in South Korean cinemas on December 27, 2007 and had a total of over 300,000 visitors. The film service describes the film as a "visually powerful fantasy horror film based on motifs from the Brothers Grimm fairy tale" with a dense atmosphere, but loses sight of the plot. While Cath Clarke from the Guardian rated the film with only 2 out of 5 stars and described the execution as awkward, the film magazine Cinema gave the "surreal" work 5 stars. Jens Hamp from Filmstarts rated Hansel & Gretel 3.5 stars. The film turns the well-known fairy tale into a “moral mystery story in a motley atmosphere”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Hansel & Gretel. In: Filmdienst . Retrieved November 14, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Hansel and Gretel (2007). In: Korean Film Biz Zone. Retrieved November 14, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Cath Clarke: Hansel & Gretel. In: The Guardian . January 16, 2009, accessed November 14, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Hansel & Gretel. In: Cinema . Retrieved November 14, 2018 .
  5. ^ Jens Hamp: Hansel & Gretel. In: film starts . Retrieved November 14, 2018 .