Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters |
| Original title | Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters |
| Country of production |
United States Germany |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2013 |
| length | Theatrical version: 88 minutes Extended Cut: 98 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 16 JMK 14 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Tommy Wirkola |
| script | Tommy Wirkola, Dante Harper |
| production |
Will Ferrell , Adam McKay , Kevin Messick , Beau Flynn |
| music | Atli Örvarsson |
| camera | Michael Bonvillain |
| cut | Jim Page |
| occupation | |
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Hansel and Gretel: Hexenjäger (original title Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters ) is an American - German fantasy film with horror and action elements by the director Tommy Wirkola from 2013 . The film, starring Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton in the lead roles was by Paramount Pictures in 3D produced.
action
After Hansel and Gretel were abandoned by their parents in the forest, as in a fairy tale , and killed the witch who captured them, they worked as bounty hunters and killed witches for the next 15 years .
In Augsburg they prevent the magistrate from executing a woman named Mina, who is accused of witchcraft. They were hired by the city's mayor to find a number of missing children. The magistrate instructs some men to do the same thing, but they are killed that night by the chief witch Muriel. She only lets one survive and sends him back to town, where he explodes as a warning.
Hansel and Gretel succeed in capturing and interrogating a witch. They learn that the witches are planning a ritual for which they each need six boys and six girls who were born in different months. Since only one girl who was born in April is missing, Hansel goes to the only child in question, but cannot prevent his kidnapping. He holds on to the broom of a fleeing witch, but is shaken off in the forest. Muriel frees the captive witch and knocks Gretel out, who is brought to safety by a boy named Ben. The next morning Hansel is found hanging upside down in a tree by Mina.
Gretel goes into the forest to look for him, but is attacked and mistreated by the magistrate and his men because they hold her and her brother responsible for what happened. A troll named Eduard, who is Muriel's henchman because trolls serve witches, intervenes and kills Gretel's attacker. In a hut in the forest, the siblings meet again and discover that the hut is not only a hiding place for a witch, but also the house where they were both born. Muriel arrives and tells that Adrianna, the mother of the siblings, was a white (good) witch, and that the heart of such a white witch is the last ingredient in the ritual with which the black witches want to make themselves immune to fire . However, since the mother was too powerful, the witches wanted Gretel's heart, which is why the father should hide the two children in the forest. Muriel then spread a rumor to have her mother burned to death and the father hung by the mob . When they find out, Hansel and Gretel attack the black witch, but succumb. Hansel is badly wounded and Gretel is kidnapped.
Hansel wakes up the next morning and realizes that Mina has healed him. It turns out that she is a white witch too. Together with Ben they make their way to the meeting of the witches. Hansel and Mina can kill the witches with their firearms and rescue them with the help of Eduard Gretel and the kidnapped children. Muriel escapes, but is shot off the broom by Ben. Hansel, Mina and Ben pursue them to the witch house where Hansel and Gretel ended up as children. Muriel kills Mina in battle before Hansel and Gretel behead her with a shovel. In the end, the two of them collect the reward for saving the children and move on with Ben and Eduard to hunt witches elsewhere.
background
While the film premiered in Russia on January 17, 2013, it opened in German-speaking countries on February 28, 2013.
The film was shot and post-edited in Germany. The filming locations were mainly the interior and exterior scenes in the Babelsberg film studio in the Brandenburg state capital Potsdam and Burgplatz in Braunschweig, which were elaborately produced for the 3D recordings . The production budget was about 60 million US dollars. The film grossed 225 million US dollars worldwide.
In 2013, 1,344,688 visitors to the German box offices were counted nationwide, making the film 22nd place among the most visited films of the year.
In Augsburg , in the vicinity of which the film's action mainly takes place, 17 alleged witches, including two children, were killed in the course of the witch hunt after the Thirty Years' War .
synchronization
The German synchronization was based on a dialogue book directed by Erik Paulsen on behalf of the Berliner Synchron AG Wenzel Lüdecke.
| role | Actress | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Hansel | Cedric Eich (young)
Jeremy Renner (old) |
Cedric Eich (young)
Gerrit Schmidt-Foss (old) |
| Gretel | Alea Sophia Boudodimos (young)
Gemma Arterton (old) |
Alea Sophia Boudodimos (young)
Maria Koschny (old) |
| Muriel | Famke Janssen | Susanne von Medvey |
| Magistrate Berringer | Peter Stormare | Detlef Bierstedt |
| Eduard | Derek Mears | |
| Mina | Pihla Viitala | Dascha Lehmann |
| Ben | Thomas Mann | Ricardo Richter |
| witch | Zoë Bell | |
| Mayor Englemann | Rainer Bock | Frank Röth |
| Adrianna (mother) | Kathrin Kühnel | |
| Milkman | Fritz Roth | Uwe Jellinek |
| horned witch | Ingrid Bolsø Berdal | Victoria Storm |
| red-haired witch | Joanna Kulig | Angela Ringer |
| evil witch | Monique Ganderton | Heike Schroetter |
| father | Thomas Scharff | Dennis Schmidt-Foss |
| Edward | Robin Atkin Downes | Uli Krohm |
| Jackson | Bjørn Sundquist | Frank Ciazynski |
| Jonathan | Christian Rubeck | Andreas Mueller |
| mercenary | ||
| William | Jeppe Laursen | Olaf Reichmann |
| Pursuer | Stig Frode Henriksen | |
| exploding villager | Vegar Hoel | Axel Lutter |
| Gamekeeper | ||
| Deputy | Sebastian Hulk | Christoph Banks |
| Teenager | Lucas man | Constantin von Jascheroff |
| Mary Behlmer | Lucy Ella from Scheele | Derya Flechtner |
| Boy | Till Flechtner |
Reviews
While the film received average to good reviews in German-speaking countries, it failed critics in the United States . Of 125 critics evaluated on the Rotten Tomatoes meta site , the film received only 14% positive ratings. In the Internet Movie Database he achieved 6.1 out of 10 points.
"A fast-paced and action-packed fantasy horror film with a high blood toll and lots of black humor."
"Hansel and Gretel, whose traumatic childhood story was staged as a prologue in an imaginative, fast-paced and amazingly colorful way (as if the gingerbread in the gingerbread house were soaked in LSD ), have grown into famous witch hunters in black leather and with cool weapons. [...] With the remarkable achievements of the make-up artists and specialists for special effects, the film offers enough variety to conceal for a while that hardly anything interesting is told about its heroines. "
"Nothing makes a whole lot of sense in this incoherent movie, whose director's philosophy seems to be: When in doubt, cut somebody's head off."
"Nothing in this incoherent film makes a lot of sense, the director probably thought: If in doubt, we'll just cut off someone's head."
Web links
- Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters atRotten Tomatoes(English)
- Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters in the Lexicon of International Films
- Hansel and Gretel: witch hunters at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters in the Lexicon of International Films . Retrieved February 7, 2013
- ↑ Hansel and Gretel: witch hunters - details in the IMDb . Retrieved February 7, 2013
- ^ Certificate of release for Hansel and Gretel: witch hunters . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , February 2013 (PDF; test number: 137 291 K).
- ↑ Age rating for Hansel and Gretel: witch hunters . Youth Media Commission ( TV version).
- ↑ Hansel and Gretel go on a witch hunt in Potsdam's latest news from March 15, 2011
- ↑ The witch hunters Hansel and Gretel have barely left Babelsberg… ( Memento of the original from April 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in Märkische Allgemeine on June 9, 2011
- ^ 'Hansel & Gretel' will bewitch box office this weekend in Los Angeles Times on January 24, 2013
- ↑ Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters , boxofficemojo.com. Retrieved July 3, 2013.
- ↑ KINOaktuell: What you wanted: Münster's cinema year 2013, C. Lou Lloyd, Filminfo No. 4, January 23-29, 2014, p. 24f
- ↑ Lyndal Roper : Witch Mania. Story of a persecution ; Munich: CH Beck, 2007, page 37; ISBN 978-3-406-54047-9
- ↑ Kurt Rau: Augsburg child witch trials 1625-1730 ; Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, 2006, page 422; ISBN 978-3-205-77412-9
- ↑ Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- ↑ Hansel and Gretel: witch hunters. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ What happened to the fairy tale children?
- ↑ 'Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters' is grim
