Little Red Riding Hood (1953)

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Movie
Original title Little Red Riding Hood
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1953
length 85 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Fritz Genschow
script Fritz Genschow
Renée Stobrawa
production Fritz Genschow film
music Richard Stauch
camera Gerhard Huttula
cut Liselotte Cochius
occupation

Little Red Riding Hood is a German fairy tale film from 1953. It is based on the Grimm fairy tale Little Red Riding Hood . The premiere of the film took place on October 25, 1953 in several cinemas in Essen .

action

Heidi celebrates her birthday together with her friends and her mother. The hunter also comes by for the birthday party with a present from his grandmother, a red cap. At the same time he has to convey the sad news to Heidi that the grandmother is sick. Heidi immediately puts on her skull cap and is henceforth called "Little Red Riding Hood". Since the grandmother couldn't come for her birthday, Heidi decides to go to her to bring her cake and wine and to make her happy so that she can get well again quickly.

On the way there, Heidi meets a number of animals and sings them well-known folk songs. When a bird flies by, she sings . A bird comes flying and to a bee she means hum, hum, hum, bee hum around! On his way to the grandmother, the child is repeatedly warned of the bad wolf by a good elf and the tinker, among others. Little Red Riding Hood, however, engages in a conversation with the wolf - whom she initially takes for a dog. The wolf suggests that the girl pick flowers for the sick grandmother. Despite the mother's strict prohibition, the child deviates from the path. In the meantime the wolf goes to the grandmother and devours her skin and hair. After Little Red Riding Hood has picked so many flowers that she can barely carry them, she makes her way to see grandmother.

When the child enters the room, it asks astonished: "But grandmother, what kind of long ears do you have?" "So that I can hear you better," is the answer. “But grandmother, what big eyes do you have?” “So that I can see you better.” “And what big hands do you have?” “So that I can grab you better.” “But grandmother, what kind of horrible thing do you have big mouth? ”“ So that I can eat you better ”. The wolf then devours the poor girl.

Meanwhile, Little Red Riding Hood's mother has gone in search of the child and the hunter follows in the forest in the tracks of the wolf. So he arrives at his grandmother's house, from which he hears a strange snoring. To find out whether everything is okay, he enters the house and sees the wolf lying in bed snoring. The hunter cuts his stomach open and sees Little Red Riding Hood and his grandmother. Together with Little Red Riding Hood, he fetches heavy bricks with which they fill the wolf's belly. The grandmother then sews up the wolf's peritoneum again. When the wolf wakes up thirsty and wants to drink from the well, the stones pull him down, so that he falls into the depths and dies.

Little Red Riding Hood, her mother, her grandmother, the hunter, the shepherd and the tinker dance around the well with joy and sing The wolf is dead! .

production

Rotkäppchen was filmed in Berlin-Grunewald and Berlin-Tegel , among others . The shooting took place from August 14, 1953 to September 5, 1953. The film had its premiere in Essen on October 25, 1953 .

The cinema version has an additional black and white framework that draws attention to everyday dangers in road traffic and the threat posed by the wolf is reinterpreted in the context of traffic education. In this version the length of the film is 85 minutes. The specified length of 37 minutes refers to the actual story of Little Red Riding Hood without a framework, which was shot exclusively in color.

Fritz Genschow and Renée Stobrawa filmed the fairy tale in 1937 under the title Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf . In this version, too, there is a contemporary frame story filmed in black and white (set in the time of National Socialism ) and a middle section in color.

On February 6, 2012, the film was released on DVD without a framework.

criticism

The film-dienst wrote: “A modern version of the Grimm fairy tale. Little Red Riding Hood is a child of the 50s who is confronted with the big bad wolf "in the form of modern road traffic. The actual fairy tale plot appears as a dream vision. Unfortunately, these arts and crafts contortions have the consequence that the fairy tale magic is lost without the educational effect coming into play The framework is black and white, the fairy tale in color. "

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ a b c See maerchenfilm.pytalhost.com
  3. ↑ See croco-film.de
  4. ↑ Little Red Riding Hood. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used