Six come through the world
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| Original title | Six come through the world |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1972 |
| length | 69 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
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| Director | Rainer Simon |
| script | Rainer Simon Manfred Freitag Joachim Nestler scenario |
| production | DEFA , KAG "Babelsberg" |
| music | Peter Rabenalt |
| camera | Roland Graef |
| cut | Helga Krause |
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Sixes Come Through the World is a DEFA fairy tale film by Rainer Simon from 1972. It is loosely based on the fairy tale Sixes Come Through the Whole World by the Brothers Grimm .
action
A war has ended. While the king gives himself the "order of his own immortality" and also gives his marshals - wooden dolls - medals, the soldiers only receive three hellers for their services. When a soldier protests against it, he is captured by the king. He swears to the monarch that he will one day possess all of his riches. In prison, the soldier meets the strong. Although he can loosen his chains, he does not want to, because everything he touches is fundamentally broken. When the strong man has to sneeze, the pressure throws the soldier out of the now destroyed prison. Although he wants to stay in prison, the soldier convinces him to come with him. Even a fiddler, whose music forces everyone to dance, comes with them. On their hike together, the three meet the always hungry runner who uses his speed to steal food from travelers. He also joins the two hikers, as does a very precise hunter who hits everything even from a great distance, as this is according to the regulations.
The group had already come across a girl in a sunflower field who wanted to join them, but was afraid of the strong one. The soldier had advised her to grow. When the men later find a heavy sack on the side of the road with a piece of paper asking them to take it with them, the strong man shouldered the sack. The men come to a windmill, where a man from the court explains that the princess is looking for a challenger for a race. Whoever defeats her will keep her as a wife; whoever loses loses his life. The soldier answers and the group is left to the king. The soldier states that he wants to let the runner run for himself. If he loses, however, all five men should lose their heads. Both runners are to rush to a spring, fill a jug with water, and bring it back to the king. The duel begins and the runner lets himself be distracted again and again. He constantly takes food breaks and finally falls asleep by the roadside not far from a lighthouse. The princess knocks over his already filled water jar and finally seems to win. The hunter, however, manages to shoot the pillow from under the runner's head. The runner wakes up and hurriedly refills his jug. Shortly before the princess he reached the goal.
However, the princess does not think about marrying the soldier. At the engagement meal, she locks the five men in a room with iron floors and walls. The court employees light a fire under the room and soon the walls are glowing with heat. The floor also glows, so that the strong cannot get to the door. In the meantime the men have found out that the supposed boy is in the sack - in reality it is the girl from the sunflower field who disguised herself as a man. When the heat is at its greatest, Schiefhütchen puts on her hat and soon there is frost in the room. The princess is horrified when the five men and crooked hats come out of the destroyed room freezing after the strong man sneezes. Now the king offers the men all gold and goods that the strong can carry. Numerous wagons are loaded with all of the castle's valuables and even the royal crown and the princess' wedding dress are taken with them. When the numerous wagons are pulled out of the yard by the strong man, the royal family has no more assets, apart from three Heller, which the soldier left them with. The six give away the valuable items to the farmers they meet on the way, even if many of them have little use for mirrors, carpets and lamps. During a rest, the soldier realizes that Schiefhütchen is actually a woman and both become a couple. The angry princess has meanwhile alerted her soldiers and the entire court has tried to ambush the six and get the gold back, but the fiddler plays and everyone is forced to dance. With a different melody, all attackers disappear after a short time. The group now also goes their separate ways and the soldier and the crooked hat say goodbye to the others.
production
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Six Coming Through the World was Rainer Simon's third children's film and the only DEFA film in which the Czech actor Jiří Menzel played a role - at the time of shooting, Menzel was banned from working in the ČSSR .
The film was shot from August 13 to November 12, 1971 in what is now the districts of Potsdam-Mittelmark and Havelland. The scenes in the sunflower field were shot in Sputendorf , while other shots were shot in Saarmund and Langerwisch , in Elsholz and in Falkenrehde . The film also shows the Borner post mill , where the race with the princess is announced, the Sanssouci Palace and the Moritzburg Palace as the seat of the king. The runner's resting place during the race was the meadow in front of the Moritzburg lighthouse . Individual scenes were shot in the DEFA studio in Babelsberg.
The world premiere took place on August 18, 1972 in the Babylon cinema in Berlin . The film was later shown not only in the FRG and Western Europe, but was also shown in Vietnam in 1975 and in Japan in 1977 .
The text of the Fiedler song heard in the film was inspired by songs by Walther von der Vogelweide .
criticism
Contemporary critics praised the film as an "original, imaginative cinematic version of the fairy tale".
In 1972 Margit Voss asked herself in Filmspiegel “whether this cinema piece is no longer appropriate for an adult audience than for a child audience [...] The filmmakers wanted to address both groups, although they are of the entirely acceptable opinion that the child should join in the surface of appearances, while adults will enjoy the ambiguity of the scene. But whether there is enough fun, action and imaginative poetry for the children in this film, I would like to doubt. On the other hand, in spite of all the reservations formulated here, I confess, even from the subtle joke that the current issues were not only well entertained, but also that I received suggestions for many considerations worth considering. "
The national newspaper also found that director Rainer Simon was here as well as in How do you marry a king? shows that "a realistic fairy tale film can meet both childish and mature aesthetic demands without having to forego fantastic traits, magic and 'supernatural' powers". Other critics praised the film's “optical… imagination”, but criticized that the filmmakers “dosed” cheerfulness and fun here, while “the filmmakers got a little too much into aestheticizing, philosophizing and stylizing”.
In retrospect, other reviews said that Sechse Come Through the World is an "entertaining fairytale film", "which, despite noticeable closeness to reality, does not damage the poetic charm of Grimm's original."
The film-dienst called Sechse comes through the world a “film adaptation of a traditional fairy tale with ironic and socially critical approaches that strives for new narrative methods. The intellectual staging is combined with the fantastic design, whereby younger viewers are sometimes overwhelmed. "
literature
- Six come through the world . In: Eberhard Berger, Joachim Gliese (Ed.): 77 fairy tale films. A movie guide for young and old . Henschel Verlag, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-362-00447-4 , pp. 69-73.
- Six come through the world . In: DEFA Foundation (ed.): The DEFA fairy tale films . Zweiausendeins, Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-00-032589-2 , pp. 140-145.
- F.-B. Habel : The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , pp. 531-532 .
- Six come through the world . 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. 181-183.
Web links
- Six soldiers of the world in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Six come across the world in the online film database
- Six people come across the world at filmportal.de
- Six people make their way around the world at the DEFA Foundation
Individual evidence
- ↑ F.-B. Habel : The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , pp. 532 .
- ↑ Sixes come through the world . In: DEFA Foundation (ed.): The DEFA fairy tale films . Zweiausendeins, Frankfurt am Main 2010, p. 143.
- ^ KJ Wendlandt: An idiosyncratic, imaginative fairy tale grotesque . In: Neues Deutschland , August 20, 1972.
- ↑ Margit Voss: Poetry with Problems . In: Filmspiegel , No. 19, 1972.
- ↑ Heinz Hofmann in: Nationalzeitung , August 29, 1972.
- ^ Rosemarie Rehahn : Children and people in the cinema . In: Wochenpost , No. 47, 1972.
- ↑ Sixes come through the world . In: Ingelore König, Dieter Wiedemann, Lothar Wolf (eds.): Between Marx and Muck. DEFA films for children . Henschel, Berlin 1996, p. 182.
- ↑ Sixes come through the world. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .