King Thrushbeard (1965)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | King Drosselbart |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1965 |
| length | 74 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK o. A. |
| Rod | |
| Director | Walter Beck |
| script |
Günter Kaltofen Walter Beck |
| production | Siegfried Kabitzke |
| music | Wolfgang Lesser |
| camera | Lothar Gerber |
| cut | Christel Ehrlich |
| occupation | |
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König Drosselbart is a DEFA fairy tale film from 1965 with Karin Ugowski as the haughty Princess Roswitha and Manfred Krug in the title role, directed by Walter Beck . The film made in the DEFA studios in the GDR is an adaptation of Grimm's fairy tale King Drosselbart .
action
When Princess Roswitha Radbruch's carriage suffers during a drive, a stranger comes to the aid of the haughty king's daughter.
After the repairs have been carried out, the princess is late at her father's feast, King Dandelion, at which she is supposed to choose a husband. But none of the nobles present is good enough for the idiosyncratic princess, neither King Wenzel zu Weinreich, the thirteenth, nor Junker Balduin von Backenstreich, nor Prince Zacharias von Zackenschwert, nor Duke Adolar von Antenpfiff, nor Prince Casimir, nor Count Eitelfritz von Supp, yes not even her father's favorite, King Heinz Eduard. Instead, she mocks and mocks the suitors. The stranger is also present, whom the princess immediately names "King Thrushbeard" because of his beard. Her father is angry about the behavior of his daughter and determines that the princess has to take the first beggar who comes to her husband who appears in front of the castle. Thereupon the stranger stands as a minstrel in front of the gate of the castle; the scorned suitors remind the now hesitant king of his word. The protesting princess has no choice but to marry the minstrel. Then the king expels her from the castle and she sets off with her husband. When she learns that the great forest, the green meadow and the beautiful city belong to King Drosselbart, she regrets not having taken him as a man.
When she desperately wants an apple at the market, the minstrel teaches her a lesson that one must earn one's wishes; the spoiled princess also has to get used to life in a simple hut without servants and to gainful employment. Attempts by the minstrel to teach her basket weaving and spinning fail because of the princess's poor stamina. A little later she achieved initial success with the sale of self-painted pots and jugs on the market. When she sat down at the corner of the market the next day against the advice of her fellow men to stand out from the other market women, a raging rider (who later turned out to be King Thrushbeard) destroyed her goods. Out of shame, she no longer dares go home and sits crying in the forest. There she finds a kitchen boy from the castle who is picking mushrooms and takes them with him. So the princess becomes the kitchen maid with King Hans, not realizing that she is in King Drosselbart's castle. This initially makes them search everywhere. After a hint from the cook, he organizes a party at his castle and introduces the kitchen maid as Princess Roswitha and his bride to the surprised party. At first she does not recognize him as the minstrel and tries to run away. After King Hans reveals himself, the princess watches the king after his deception maneuvers; both get married and take a carriage ride into the forest.
Production background
When King Thrushbeard is a pure studio production of the DEFA in Babelsberg. After Frau Holle (1963) and Die goldene Gans (1964), Karin Ugowski can be seen in her third and last leading role in a DEFA fairy tale film. The film was released in GDR cinemas on July 16, 1965.
König Drosselbart is an outstanding example of fairy tale adaptations that were realized exclusively in the halls of the studio premises, today's Studio Babelsberg , and that are still successfully shown in cinemas and television to this day. This also includes the film adaptations of Das singenden, Klingende Bäumchen , Drei Hazelnuts für Cschenbrödel , Snow White and other productions.
The songs from the film were released on October 27, 2003 together with other pieces of music from other DEFA fairy tale films under the title Fairy Tale Land - Music from DEFA Fairy Tale Films.
criticism
The lexicon of international films wrote about the fairy tale film: “The pleasantly stylized and modernized film adaptation of the Brothers Grimm's folk tale of the same name, with a few points against the SED state at the time, is due to the time it was made. Thanks to the wealth of ideas and the playfulness of its actors, good, child-friendly entertainment with a singing Manfred Krug is still today.
Web links
- King Thrushbeard in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- King Drosselbart in the online film database
- King Drosselbart at the DEFA Foundation
Individual evidence
- ↑ Corinna A. Rader: “The studio and the fairy tale film - Of artificial worlds and artificial light” In: Annette Dorgerloh and Marcus Becker: “Alles nur Kulisse ?! Film rooms from the Babelsberg dream factory “ Publishing house and database for the humanities (VDG), Weimar 2015, p. 38.
- ↑ King Thrushbeard. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .