Snow White and Rose Red (2012)
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| Original title | Snow White and Rose Red |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2012 |
| length | 60 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
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| Director | Sebastian Grobler |
| script | Mario Giordano |
| production | Saxonia Media Film Production |
| music | Ingo Ludwig Frenzel |
| camera | Jakub Bejnarowicz |
| cut | Dirk Gray |
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Schneeweißchen und Rosenrot is a German fairy tale film from 2012. It is based on the fairy tale of the same name by the Brothers Grimm and was produced by MDR for the ARD series Six in One fell swoop .
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The two little girls Schneeweißchen and Rosenrot bring their father a letter. He has to go to the Thirty Years War . He says goodbye to his daughters with one white and one red rose from the hedge with which he has planted his little hut. His wife waves after him sadly. He falls a month after he went to war.
Many years later the two little girls have grown into very pretty young women. The war is drawing to a close and there is famine across the country. The people hardly have any more money to buy the rose oil produced by Schneeweißchen and Rosenrot and their mother . In order to support the mother, the two sisters try to sell the rose oil on the nearby market. As luck would have it, Prince Jakob also visits the market with his father. When the prince sees Snow White, he immediately falls in love with the beautiful girl.
On the advice of his son, the king wants to sell the crown treasure in order to buy seeds for his starving people. But a vicious dwarf also visits the market and uses his robe to pretend that he is a rich merchant. Cunning as he is, he succeeds in seizing the crown treasure by telling the king that the capital can be invested profitably on the Amsterdam stock exchange. Prince Jakob can only give his father a drawing of the nasty journeyman that he has left behind, which is hung up throughout the empire to look for him. The prince himself takes up the chase on horseback. He succeeds in confronting the dwarf. However, he has magical powers and turns the prince into a bear .
The angry dwarf had also received the order from the dwarf assembly, in addition to the acquisition of a treasure, to "clear" the cave behind the house of Schneeweißchen and Rosenrot and their mother for the dwarfs. The girls' father had two enchanted rose bushes planted at the gate to the entrance when they were born, one red and one white. These rose bushes shield the hut and make penetration almost impossible. Only people with a good heart are allowed to enter.
Snow-white meanwhile dreams of her prince and tells her sister that maybe he has a brother. Rose red, however, means to her that she doesn't want a prince, she wants to see the world. When the girls are out in the forest, they meet the evil dwarf who calls for help because his beard has got caught in a tree trunk. When Rosenrot has to chop off a piece of it with a hatchet to get him out of his predicament, he berates the girls instead of thanking them for their help.
In the meantime, the king is brought the sword of Prince Jacob that was found in the forest. The dwarf, now appearing as a nobleman, causes the king to give orders to hunt the bear, as he claims to have watched this prince attacked Jacob. When Snow White and Rose Red roam the forest, they meet the dwarf again, who in turn is in dire straits with his beard. A fish has bitten into it and threatens to pull it underwater. Rosenrot cuts off a piece of the beard with scissors, and again the girls have to let him curse them in thanks. On their way home they meet the bear, who is perched on a high rock. Snow White tells her sister that he looks so sad. Then the king's hunters approach and tell the girls that they want to kill the bear.
Shortly afterwards, they meet the dwarf a third time. This time he got caught in a bear trap with his beard and can hardly move. Again he loses a piece of his beard, which has already lost considerably in length, which he acknowledges with savage insults towards Snow White and Rose Red. The mother later explains to her daughters that a long beard is a dwarf's greatest treasure and that it can transform people with it.
One evening there was a knock on the door of the little hut. The harried bear fell into one of the traps set up and dragged himself there. As if by a miracle, the rose bushes opened when he asked for admission. The girls nurse the bear back to health.
As the mother is on her way to the market, the girl approaches the dwarf in the form of a well-traveled man. He tells Snow White that he has met Prince Jakob, who is longing for her and wants her to come with him to speak to the prince himself. However, Snow White doesn't trust him, but lets her adventurous sister Rosenrot persuade her to follow the dwarf. He wants the girls to destroy the rose hedge. But then the bear approaches, and the dwarf resumes its old form when it gets caught in the rose hedge and is then devoured by it. The magic that lay on the prince dissolves, and the bear becomes Prince Jacob again. Snow White and the Prince happily embrace each other. Shortly afterwards they get married.
At the wedding party Rosenrot met Prince Kasper, a cousin of the Prince. He says of himself that he is the black sheep of the family. He prefers to travel and experience adventures than to be at court. Just like Rosenrot, he wants to look around the world. With the blessing of mother and sister, Rosenrot rides off with Kasper into a future together.
Differences from fairy tales
In the opening scene, Snow White and Rose Red can be seen as children. Your father is drafted into the war. There are other differences to the original fairy tale: The dwarf can transform into other people and therefore persuade the king to go hunting for the bear by persuading him to believe that the bear is an evil enchanted dwarf. In the film, unlike in fairy tales, there is not just one dwarf, but six dwarfs. The enchanted prince in the form of the bear does not look for protection in the hut during the harsh winter, as in the fairy tale, in snow-white and rose-red, but because he is being hunted or trapped in a bear and injured.
Production and audience rating
The shooting took place from May 22, 2012 to June 8, 2012. The film was shot in Liebstadt , Leupoldishain and at Kuckuckstein Castle .
The fairy tale film was premiered on October 20, 2012 as part of the "Schlingel - 17th International Film Festival" in the CineStar Chemnitz (Am Roten Turm). Schneeweißchen und Rosenrot was released on DVD on November 15, 2012; the television premiere took place on December 25, 2012.
When it was first broadcast, the film reached 2.32 million viewers, corresponding to a market share of 14.3%.
criticism
Rainer Tittelbach found that “the 60-minute MDR production 'Schneeweißchen und Rosenrot' [belongs] to the weaker film adaptations in the series 'Six at a stroke'. The plot [is] close to kitsch, the unbroken characters full of clichés, the messages conservative. The four main actors alone [are] convincing - above all Liv Lisa Fries, in whose face there is more [e] going on than in most of the scenes. "Zelluloid.de found that it is a" refreshing new version of Grimm's fairy tale [is] . ”The television magazine Gong rated it as“ suitable for children ”and awarded it five out of six points, which corresponds to the rating“ very good ”. Another review said: “Great young actors” and it was also referred to as a “loving staging”. The television magazine Hörzu stated that it was a “fairy tale about greed, seductiveness, pure hearts and belief in good [act]” and recommended the film version for children aged 6 and over.
Web links
- Snow White and Rose Red in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Snow white and rose red in the online film database
- Snow white and rose red at crew united
- Snow white and rose red on the Berlin-Brandenburg radio station
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for snow white and rose red . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , October 2012 (PDF; test number: 135 395 V).
- ↑ See maerchenfilm.pytalhost.com
- ↑ Snow white and rose red ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at saxonia-media.de. Retrieved January 6, 2013.
- ↑ Snow White and Rose Red at cinedat.org. Retrieved January 6, 2013.
- ↑ a b Schneeweißchen and Rosenrot at tittelbach.tv. Retrieved January 6, 2013.
- ↑ Snow-white and rose-red. In: Zelluloid.de. Archived from the original on December 7, 2015 ; accessed on September 22, 2018 .
- ↑ Schneeweißchen and Rosenrot in the television magazine Gong No. 1 of December 28, 2012, p. 38 and No. 25 of June 14, 2013, p. 44.
- ↑ Schneeweißchen and Rosenrot in the television magazine Hörzu No. 1 of December 28, 2012, p. 52.
