Snow White and Rose Red (1979)

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Movie
Original title Snow White and Rose Red
Country of production GDR
original language German
Publishing year 1979
length 67 minutes
Age rating FSK No age limit
Rod
Director Siegfried Hartmann
script Siegfried Hartmann
production DEFA , KAG "Johannisthal"
music Peter Gotthardt
camera Siegfried Mogel
cut Renate Bade
occupation
synchronization

Schneeweißchen und Rosenrot is a DEFA fairytale film from 1979 directed by Siegfried Hartmann . The film, made in the DEFA studios in the GDR , is based on the Grimm brothers' fairy tale of the same name .

action

The two young sisters Schneeweißchen and Rosenrot live together with their mother on the edge of a mountain forest. The area is almost deserted, because an evil mountain spirit lives in the so-called Amalien tunnel in the forest. He once killed the sisters' father and drove all miners out of the area. Only grandfather Matthias and his grandson Klaus stayed to defeat the mountain spirit. So far, however, Matthias has not been able to find two men who would have been willing to climb into the tunnel with him and fight the mountain spirit.

Princes Michael and Andreas pass the tunnel during the hunt, but cannot open the locked gate. You ride on to the market, where Snow White and Rose Red offer children's toys and woven goods for sale. Both princes, who immediately fall in love with the girls, introduce themselves to them as hunters and buy up all the goods. A self-made model of the Amalienstollen also attracts your attention. Klaus tells both of the grandfather's plan to visit the tunnel with two men, and Michael and Andreas agree to do so. Neither girl succeeds in dissuading her from her plan.

The magical power of the mountain spirit soon becomes apparent in the tunnel. He lets signs and lights appear, sets fire and makes parts of the rock fall. Matthias is hit by a boulder and Michael and Andreas bring him out of the cave. Both drink exhausted from a spring suddenly emerging from the rock and then turn into a hawk and a brown bear . The mountain spirit triumphs and announces that both would only be released from the magic if they are truly loved in their current form.

Snow-white and rose-red search in vain for the hunters and the king also lets his men ride out after his sons, who in turn hunt bears and falcons. Both animals are injured in winter by Snow White and Rose Red and taken care of. The sisters, in turn, meet the mountain spirit at greater intervals, whom they free from three unfortunate situations: They save him when his beard gets caught in a tree, in a fishing net and in a bush - each time they have to cut off a piece of beard and Harvest insults for their actions. At the last meeting they only help because the mountain spirit reveals to them the supposed whereabouts of Andreas and Michael. He lures her with the description into his cave realm, where he wants to capture both of them. Bear and falcon appear and the mountain spirit triumphs, after all it has supposedly taken four prisoners: the sisters and the enchanted men. When the bear tries to pounce on the mountain spirit, who can no longer become invisible by cutting off his beard, he loses his magic wand. The bear knocks on the ground with the stick, the mountain spirit is slain by a falling boulder and himself turned to stone. Snow-white and rose-red promise to always love both hunters in their animal form and so the magic is released. The cave of the mountain spirit begins to collapse, but all four can escape outside in time.

The weddings of Schneeweißchen and Michael as well as Rosenrot and Andreas follow. Both couples go to the castle of the king, who gives them a lavish party in their honor.

production

Falkenstein Castle, the royal castle in the film

Snow white and rose red was filmed in the Harz in the valleys near Trautenstein , in front of the Klopstockhaus and on the lower Schlossberg (market scene) in Quedlinburg and at Wernigerode Castle (wedding). A suitable location for the royal palace was found in Falkenstein Castle . The premiere took place on July 6, 1979 in the Erfurt Panorama Palast.

At that time it was the fourth fairy tale film that Siegfried Hartmann made. Leading actor Pavel Trávníček had already taken on the male lead of the prince in 1973 in the extremely popular fairy tale film Three Hazelnuts for Cinderella . Here the prince transforms into a bear who, in contrast to the real falcon, was portrayed by an actor in a bear costume. "This unequal pairing, damaging the magic from the start, illustrates the actual dilemma of the film [...] The reality shown here and unfortunately rarely alienated ... often blocks the way of the imagination". The trick shots for the film were made by Peter Marks .

synchronization

role actor Voice actor
Snow white Julie Jurištová Simone von Zglinicki
Michael Pavel Trávníček Peter Reusse

Reviews

The contemporary critics assessed the film ambiguously. It is true that she praised the fact that the scriptwriters “achieve a realistic relationship to the environment in the fable, in which the good is separated from the bad without slipping into black and white painting, without exaggerated childish fuss and with abstracting naivety [...] in the fable ". At the same time, it was criticized that the film "despite a slightly changed plot and an expanded ensemble of characters [...] remains quite conservative" - ​​it "could have been produced many years ago as well." In addition, it was criticized that the film "too many Possibilities given away, those of the scenario and also those of the original template. "

The lexicon of international films called the fairy tale film “staged in a home-made way, but with its fresh musical background and beautiful nature shots above average”. For Cinema , the film was "cute".

Primary literature

Secondary literature

  • Snow white and rose red . In: Eberhard Berger, Joachim Giera et al. (Ed.): 77 fairy tale films - a film guide for young and old . Henschel, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-362-00447-4 , pp. 102-105.
  • F.-B. Habel : The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , pp. 511-512 .
  • Snow white and rose red . In: Ingelore König, Dieter Wiedemann, Lothar Wolf (eds.): Between Marx and Muck. DEFA films for children . Henschel, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-89487-234-9 , pp. 265-267.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Snow-white and rose-red . In: Ingelore König, Dieter Wiedemann, Lothar Wolf (eds.): Between Marx and Muck. DEFA films for children . Henschel, Berlin 1996, p. 266.
  2. ^ G. Butter in: Morgen , July 7, 1979.
  3. ^ Henryk Goldberg in: Neues Deutschland , July 17, 1979.
  4. ↑ Joachim Giera in: Filmspiegel , No. 17, 1979.
  5. ↑ Snow-white and rose-red. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed July 13, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  6. ↑ See cinema.de