Princess Fantaghirò
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Princess Fantaghirò |
| Original title | Fantaghirò |
| Country of production | Italy |
| original language | Italian |
| Publishing year | 1991 |
| length | 179 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Lamberto Bava |
| script | Gianni Romoli , Francesca Melandri |
| production | Roberto Bessi |
| music | Amedeo Minghi |
| camera | Romano Albani , Gianlorenzo Battaglia |
| cut | Piero Bozza |
| occupation | |
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Princess Fantaghirò is a fairy tale film series that was made in an Italian production from 1991. The story is based on a Tuscan folk tale from the 9th century , which the Italian writer Italo Calvino brought to light and retold under the title “Fantaghirò Persona Bella”.
The series was u. a. Filmed in the Czech Republic and Slovakia (Part 1), broadcast in over 50 countries and broadcast in numerous other languages in addition to Italian and German .
action
Two consecutive parts belong together thematically.
Part 1 (1991)
Two kingdoms have been at war with each other since ancient times.
After having two daughters, the king of one empire longs for an heir. He returns from the war full of confidence to witness the birth of his supposed son, but he is disappointed again: It is a daughter again. She is christened Fantaghirò. She gives her father quite a headache because she just doesn't want to submit to a woman's life. Finally, she is even expelled from the castle by her father.
In the wilderness, Fantaghirò meets the White Knight, who teaches her to fight and understand nature. When Fantaghirò returns to the castle, she contradicts her father again, who then sends her to work in the kitchen. A goose, whose head she should have cut off, helps her to escape and sends her to her father's bedroom, where Fantaghirò is supposed to wait and listen under the bed.
The king, meanwhile, is at odds. The enemy king has died, and his son Romualdo has made the king an offer: a duel should finally end the war. The king is now not sure whether to accept this. His fortune tellers advise against it, but the king turns to another oracle: The White Witch. She told him the truth before, although he didn't want to hear it at the time. The witch finally appears to him in his sleep and prophesies that only his descendants are destined to conquer. So, at their own request, he sends his three daughters, who pretend to be warriors, to a duel.
Part 2 (1991)
Fantaghirò's sisters return after a short time and only Fantaghirò remains. Romualdo is plagued by lovesickness during this time. In the forest he looked into Fantaghirò's eyes, who, however, were introduced to him as a nymph by the White Witch. He was told to go away and find those eyes in a person and then he would find love. Now he's looking everywhere for a girl with those eyes. When he meets Fantaghirò, who pretends to be Count von Walddorf, again, he realizes that the alleged count has the eyes that Romualdo is so desperately looking for.
Romualdo wants to know whether the count is a man or a woman. So he sends Fantaghirò two invitations. First he invites her to hunt in the raven gorge. There, in a grotto, lives the sacred animal. This kills the men and devours the women. Romualdo is convinced that a woman would be too afraid to go inside. Fantaghirò, however, is not afraid and defeats the animal. Romualdo is now even more confused than before. Next, he sends Fantaghirò an invitation to a swimming competition. Fantaghirò accepts again. Once there, she hesitates to undress until the two finally duel. Fantaghirò defeats Romualdo but cannot kill him, which is why her father has her locked up. After this disgrace Romualdo travels to the castle to place his life and that of his people in the hands of the king. He spares Romualdo's life and instead offers him to marry one of his daughters. In the end, Romualdo meets Fantaghirò again, and they kiss deeply.
Part 3 (1992)
→ see main article : Princess Fantaghirò II
After the black witch kidnapped Fantaghirò's father, the king, his troops, led by King Romualdo, rush to the castle of the black witch to free him. Meanwhile, Fantaghirò decides to stop using weapons, despite their promise, to follow the troops and support them in the fight against evil. Before she can achieve this, however, Fantaghirò has to overcome a number of dangers. This journey will not be easy for the king's troops either, as they will have to contend with many surprises on their way there as well as on the black castle. After days of marching, the warriors must submit to the test of the mistress of the forest, in which King Romualdo will emerge victorious. When the brave warriors finally see the castle of the black witch, Romualdo and his two companions, Ivaldo and Cataldo, go there to negotiate with the black king about the release of the father Fantaghiròs. After a brief battle on both sides, the three companions are sent back to their camp to face death at dawn. That same night Romualdo falls victim to the spell of the black witch, who, in the form of Fantaghiròs, makes Romualdo kiss her and thus makes the real Fantaghirò disappear from his memory.
Part 4 (1992)
→ see main article : Princess Fantaghirò II
In the land of the elves, the black queen succeeds in enchanting Romualdo. Princess Fantaghirò is now completely on her own, but receives support from the white witch, who has turned into a goose to camouflage herself. A fierce life and death struggle ensues between the power of good, Fantaghirò and the white witch, and the incarnation of evil, the black queen. But the black queen turns out to be almost invulnerable.
Part 5 (1993)
→ see main article : Princess Fantaghirò III
Because the evil magician Tarabas and his mother fear for Tarabas' power, he has all the royal children kidnapped into the realm of the shadows. Romualdo and Fantaghirò castles are also in danger. Fantaghirò's sisters hide there with their babies. But Fantaghirò discovers that Tarabas' warriors petrify when they come into contact with water. So Romualdo lures them to the river. But then he is pushed into the water himself and petrified before Fantaghirò's eyes.
Part 6 (1993)
→ see main article : Princess Fantaghirò III
With the black witch and her assistants, lightning and thunder, Fantaghirò sets off into the hidden realm of the magician Tarabas. He should give her the magical kiss with which she can bring her petrified Romualdo back to life. But an ancient prophecy says that this kiss will turn Tarabas into a werewolf who devours Fantaghirò on the spot. The princess, however, is ready to give her life for her lover.
Part 7 (1994)
→ see main article : Princess Fantaghirò IV
The country is plagued by famine. The starving people blame the three devils named famine, pain and disease for their suffering. The young Prince Parseltongue challenges them to a fight. But the devils only laugh, hang him by his robe on a tree and ride away mockingly. When Fantaghirò finds him and learns what has happened, she wants to fight the three demons with Parseltongue. But when they find the cause of the hardship, Fantaghirò is fatally injured.
Part 8 (1994)
→ see main article : Princess Fantaghirò IV
The ugly servant of Darken, Fidor, outlaws his master because he killed Fantaghirò. As a punishment, he has to look in a mirror in which he recognizes his former self - he is Romualdo. Darken wants Fantaghirò to come back to life as soon as Tarabas gives up his resistance to evil. When he appears to respond, Fantaghirò actually begins to breathe again. However, she remains trapped with Fidor, whose true identity she does not know.
Part 9 (1996)
→ see main article : Princess Fantaghirò V
Fantaghirò rides her horse Golden Mane towards home in order to finally reign in her kingdom as the rightful queen, as fate once again means otherwise: For fear of being deleted from the Great Book of Evil if she does not soon find a hideous one The black witch has Fantaghirò kidnapped. However, the princess is soon freed by the quirky witch Asteria, who needs her help in the realm of elsewhere.
Part 10 (1996)
→ see main article : Princess Fantaghirò V
The nameless one covers the realm of the elsewhere with his horror. The children should serve him as food; those who are too lean are fattened. Asteria tries to free her old love, the general Gurdalak, from the twilight state into which a spell has put him. In fact, she can free him from the spell. But to their horror, he allies himself with the nameless. Aries also has worries: the nameless warriors have captured him and want to hang him.
Characters
The following characters appear in the respective episodes:
| Character / part | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4th | 5 | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9 | 10 |
| Fantaghirò | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x |
| Romualdo | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | |||
| king | x | x | x | x | ||||||
| White witch / white knight | x | x | x | x | ||||||
| Black witch / queen | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | ||
| Caterina | x | x | x | x | x | |||||
| Carolina | x | x | x | x | x | |||||
| Ivaldo | x | x | x | x | ||||||
| Cataldo | x | x | x | x | ||||||
| queen | x | |||||||||
| general | x | x | ||||||||
| Gold eye | x | x | ||||||||
| thunder | x | x | x | x | ||||||
| lightning | x | x | x | x | ||||||
| Elf queen | x | x | x | |||||||
| Xellesia | x | x | x | x | ||||||
| Tarabas | x | x | x | x | ||||||
| Darken | x | x | ||||||||
| Smeralda | x | x | ||||||||
| Tohor | x | x | ||||||||
| Fidor | x | x | ||||||||
| Angelica | x | x | ||||||||
| Parseltongue | x | x | ||||||||
| Rufus | x | x | ||||||||
| The nameless one | x | x | ||||||||
| Aries | x | x | ||||||||
| Masala | x | x | ||||||||
| Asteria | x | x | ||||||||
| Ezela | x | x | ||||||||
| Sarsut | x | x | ||||||||
| Gurdalak | x | x | ||||||||
| Masala's mother | x | x | ||||||||
| Lemon eater | x | x | ||||||||
| The governess | x |
Cast and dubbing
reception
"A multi-part film adaptation of a Tuscan folk tale that places particular emphasis on opulent furnishings."
Books, videos and music
- The adventures of Princess Fantaghirò are available in three books, published by VGS Verlag :
- The Grotto of the Golden Rose ISBN 978-3-80252-363-2
- The powers of darkness ISBN 978-3-80252-418-9
- The Journey to Elsewhere ISBN 978-3-80252-531-5
- There are five VHS video cassettes each in two different versions, each with two parts of the fantasy fairy tale. Five DVDs, each with two parts, are also available. There is also the DVD-Superbox with all ten parts on a total of five DVDs, which contains the series (divided into twelve scenes per episode). The series has been available in a box of 5 as BluRay since 2016.
- Two audio CDs for the series have also been released. The first contains a large part of the film music from the Fantasy series, while the second CD is just a compilation of various performers.
- In 2011 a compilation of music from the Amedeo Minghi series was also released : "Il Fantastico Mondo di Fantaghiro '".
Web links
- Princess Fantaghirò in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Princess Fantaghirò in the online film database
- Fantaghirò, persona bella - original fairy tale based on Italo Calvino (Italian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificates (PDF; 72 kB) from the FSK for Princess Fantaghiro
- ↑ Fantaghirò (animation) DVD cover. BRB Internacional, SA, accessed April 5, 2017 (English, Spanish).
- ↑ Princess Fantaghiro on synchronkartei.de , accessed on April 15, 2012, Princess Fantaghirò, TV miniseries (1991-1996) ( Memento from December 17, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ Princess Fantaghirò. In: Lexicon of International Films . Retrieved March 13, 2012 .
- ↑ Amedeo Minghi: Il Fantastico Mondo di Fantaghiro '- Music on Google Play. Retrieved April 5, 2017 .