Maria d'Oro and Bello Blue

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Movie
German title The magic stone
Original title Maria d'Oro and Bello Blue
Country of production West Germany , Italy
original language German
Publishing year 1973
length 83 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
Rod
Director Rolf Kauka
script Rolf Kauka
production Rolf Kauka
music Peter Thomas
cut Maria Luigia Piffarerio
synchronization

Maria Bello d'Oro and Blue is an animated film , the 1973 of Rolf Caucasus was produced. The film is also known in German under the title The Magic Stone .

action

Maria is the only daughter of a rich widower. Her life changes for the worse when her father marries a wicked woman with an equally wicked daughter named Mary Lou. While the two now live in luxury, Maria has to do all the housework and endure loads of injustices. Her only bright spot is her little blue dog Bello. One day Mary meets a hunter in the forest without knowing that this is the king's son. He gives her a necklace with a precious stone, which her sister throws into the well of the house. But when it is announced that the prince is looking for a bride and that she has the carbuncle stone, Mary Lou wants to get it back from the well. But she, Maria and Bello fall in and find themselves in another world.

There they come to Frau Holle's house , who asks them to help her with the housework. While Maria immediately complies with this request, Mary Lou runs into the forest. When Bello tries to get her back, the bad girl grabs his collar and ties him to a tree with her belt. Meanwhile, Maria shakes out the upholstery at Frau Holle's and it begins to snow in the forest, whereupon Bello, who cannot run away, is covered by the snow and freezes to death. The next day, Ms. Holle sends Maria and Mary Lou home and promises them that they will get the wages that are due to them. The two girls pass the spot where Bello has frozen to death and where a beautiful blue flower has grown in the meantime. Maria picks them and at the same moment Bello appears in her arms. They return to the courtyard of their house through the well.

Bello runs to the king's castle and fetches the prince and other people also come curiously to the scene. At that moment, Frau Holle vom Himmel announced that the girls would now receive their wages. While a torrent of bad luck pours over Mary Lou, Bello's collar turns into pure gold in gratitude for his loyalty and Mary receives both a white princess dress and the necklace with the carbuncle appears around her neck. The prince immediately recognizes her as the girl he fell in love with and takes her with Bello and her father to his castle. Mary Lou, on the other hand, has to leave the village with her mother after marrying the shoemaker, who has been very fond of her since the beginning of the fairy tale.

Production and publication

The film is largely based on the fairy tale Frau Holle, but also has similarities with other stories. The passage with the prince, who gets to know his loved one during a hunt, is taken from the fairy tale Little Brother and Sister , and the frog prince can initially be seen in the fountain .

After the Second World War, Rolf Kauka wanted to set up an animation production in Germany similar to that of Walt Disney's in the USA. He started out with comics and became successful with Fix and Foxi . The 1973 production of Maria d'Oro and Bello Blue was an attempt to resume the original plans of animation production but was not continued. In addition to being a producer, Kauka was also a director and wrote the script. The music was composed by Peter Thomas , Maria Luigia Piffarerio was responsible for the editing and Gino Gavioli was the artistic director . The film was made in the studios of Rolf Kauka Film and Gamma Film.

The film was released in German cinemas on December 12, 1973, distributed by Constantin Film . GG Communications released the film in 1976 in the USA. The film was also shown in Hungary, France, Peru and Argentina.

synchronization

speaker role
Martin Hirthe The king
Uwe Paulsen The prince
Jochen Schröder teller
Arnold Marquis Mr. Pulle
Eva-Maria Werth Maria
Ursula Heyer Mary-Lou
Wolfgang Spier Master Awl
Harry Wüstenhagen notary
Hans Schwarz Shake yourself tree
Tilly Lauenstein Stepmother Pulle
Gerd Duwner Herald
Eduard Wandrey Frog prince
Tina Eilers Mother Hulda

Comic adaptation

The film was also implemented as a comic, in which Gino Gavioli was responsible as an artist. The comic first appeared in sequels in the Fix and Foxi magazines, and later as an album.

Individual evidence

  1. Andreas C. Knigge: Comics - From mass paper to multimedia adventure . Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Hamburg, 1996. p. 221.
  2. Jerry Beck: Appendix 1: Limited Release Animated Features. The Animated Movie Guide . Chicago Reader Press, 2005. p. 325.
  3. The magic stone. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on August 18, 2014 .
  4. ^ Maria d'Oro and Bello Blue. German Comic Guide, accessed November 27, 2014 .

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