Little table, cover yourself (1956, Genschow)

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Movie
Original title Little table, cover yourself
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1956
length 79 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 Albert Baumeister
occupation

Tischlein, deck dich is a German fairy tale film from 1956. It is based on the Grimm fairy tale Tischchen deck dich, gold donkey and stick out of the sack . It is a film adaptation of the Fritz Genschow film production , Berlin. The tailor's three sons, who are sent far away by their father ( Werner Stock ), are played by Wolfgang Draeger , Harald Dietl and Horst Keitel .

action

A master tailor would like his sons Peter, Paul and Hans to also learn the tailoring trade, although they have completely different career aspirations. When the tailor's talking goat falsely claims that the three tortured her and gave her nothing to eat, Peter, Paul and Hans have to leave their father's house. In a foreign country, Peter learns the carpentry trade, Paul becomes a miller and Hans is trained as a wood turner. After completing her apprenticeship, she moved back to her hometown, because the mayor's daughter Marie was waiting for Peter, the miller's daughter Liesel for Paul and Kätchen for Hans the father's ward . Even the master tailor longs for his sons, especially since he saw through the lies of the goat and punished them and chased them away. On the way home, Peter donates a lot of good things with a “little table deck you”, which he received from his master as a reward. But the little table is secretly exchanged by the innkeeper for a similar, but worthless table while resting in an inn. The same thing happens to his brother Paul with a "donkey stretch yourself" that can conjure up gold ducats. Paul had also helped everywhere with the magic beforehand and had a new school built, for example.

When they get home, Peter and Paul are laughed at and cursed as swindlers and deceivers, nobody believes their stories. In a letter they warn their brother Hans, who has not yet arrived, about the thief owner and about the robbers living in his tavern. Forewarned in this way, Hans uses his master's present, a “stick out of the sack”, to punish the thieves. He comes back to his father's house with a little table and donkey. The next day, the magic power of the "little table deck dich", the "donkey stretch yourself" and the "stick out of the sack", which was only limited to one year, dried up - but what is much more important is that Peter and Paul are now rehabilitated and back again Seeing all people as honest people and the fact that all three brothers have learned a decent trade and that they have good wives in Marie, Liesel and Kätchen contributes to their satisfaction.

And the father of the three brothers states: “Everyone should learn the trade that gives him personal pleasure.” At the end a little girl gives the master tailor a kid with the words: “This kid is still good, take it with new courage! Don't bring it up to the lie that it is deceiving you again! "

production

Production notes, background

Tischlein, deck dich was filmed in July 1956 in Berlin-Wannsee and Berlin-Zehlendorf .

The director Fritz Genschow had his main focus on children's films and especially on fairy tales. To this end, he had founded his own production company, with which he created twelve fairy tale films by 1962. In this film adaptation Harald Dietl played the miller's son Paul. Dietl later became a well-known actor. Wolfgang Draeger and Horst Keitel also played their first film role here and were later able to establish themselves as versatile actors. For Genschow, who took on the role of master turner in this film, it was his penultimate role as an actor.

In the film, the Berlin Mozart Choir sings under the direction of Erich Steffen. Renée Stobrawa, who took on the role of Kätchen's aunt, wrote the screenplay with Fritz Genschow, acted as assistant director and, together with Charlotte Gensich, was also responsible for the costumes in the film. Stobrawa was married to Genschow for a while. Rita-Maria Nowotny, who can be seen here in the role of Katchen, was Fritz Genschow's second wife.

Released

The film premiered on September 9, 1956 in the Gloria Palast in Berlin .

The fairy tale was released on DVD on March 6, 2003, the publisher is Studio VCL Film + Medien AG. A new edition was released on October 1, 2004 and a Blu-Ray version on January 9, 2012 by Icestorm Distribution GmbH.

reception

criticism

The film-dienst wrote: "A very leisurely film adaptation with interspersed folk songs, rhyming dialogue and leisurely editing, whose childish struggle looks out of date from today's perspective."

At the time, some critics criticized the "infinite number of folk songs that [were] included in the [film] adaptation."

Award

The film was given the rating “valuable” by the Wiesbaden Film Evaluation Center (FBW).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Tischlein deck dich at filmportal.de. Retrieved March 3, 2013.
  2. ↑ a b c Tischlein deck dich (BRD 1956) at maerchenfilm, pytalhost.com. Retrieved March 3, 2013.
  3. ↑ DVDs Tischlein deck dich (1956) at filmportal.de. Retrieved March 3, 2013.
  4. ↑ Little table, cover yourself. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  5. ↑ Tischlein, deck dich , predicate: "valuable" at kinowelt-international.de. Retrieved March 3, 2013.