From the brave blacksmith

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Movie
German title From the brave blacksmith
Original title O statečném kováři
From the brave blacksmith Filmplakat.jpg
Country of production ČSSR
original language Czech
Publishing year 1983
length 83 minutes
Age rating FSK without age restriction
Rod
Director Petr Švéda
script Jaroslav Petrík ,
Bohumil Steiner
music Petr Ulrych
camera Jirí Kolín
cut Antonín Strojsa
occupation

From the brave blacksmith (also: The brave blacksmith ) is a fairy tale film from the ČSSR . The fairy tale film was produced in the studios of Filmové Laboratoře Gottwaldov . The film was shown in the cinemas of the ČSSR for the first time in 1983. The German dubbed version premiered in GDR cinemas on September 21, 1984. The film was first broadcast on ARD on November 20, 1985 and on DFF1 on December 21, 1985 . There is a video of the German dubbed version of ARCADE . The film was based on Božena Němcová's fairy tale The Undaunted Mikesch , which varies the Grimm fairy tale Dat Erdmänneken . In the story of the black king, the film also takes up the fairytale motif of the "giant without a heart" - a fairytale motif that is told by the Grimms in The Crystal Ball.

actor

Pavel Kříž embodies the young blacksmith plausibly. This is also supported by his slender figure, whose claim to the Herculean power of a club-swinging blacksmith is granted more by an inner tension of will. Ján Kroner , who plays the faithless companion Ondřej here, plays a completely different character in the fairy tale film The Fearless, just as convincingly. Even Martina Gasparovicova , Mikeš ', Princess, is known in fairy tale films from a supporting role in Fearless.

music

Two musical styles create the sound of the fairy tale film "Vom braven Schmied". The calm, atmospheric song of telling fairy tales plays around the beginning and end of the narrated plot to a melody that is similar to the French folk song Au clair de la lune , but the rhythm is clearly rooted in the Czech folk song. The other important song is Mikeš's whistled wandering song. This happy song is inspired in meter and melody by the Moravian folk song and is reminiscent of the song collections from this region by Leoš Janáček .

action

In the forge

Everything starts in a forge. Little Mikeš (pronounced: Mikesch) admires his strong father and his old companion Jakub as they hit the red-hot iron. A song sounds by the flickering light of the fire:

A fairy tale begins, come with me into the cool shadows. I lay in your lap: the song and the fairy tale. - Below the mountain there is a little village, in the village a dog is barking, above the mountain there is a weather light - and behind the mountain the forest. - What is crouching in the woods by the way? The trees dream and are silent. - So it has to be you. - There is a smithy: It is a pleasure to look at them - the fire flickers brightly and cheerfully. - The dew sheds tears, secretly on the grass; the anvil roars and the birds sing. - The bellows make the fire-thirsty forge glow. And the men begin to forge the iron. - And a fairy tale is forged for the children in the forge.

Departure

With his father and Jakub, Mikeš quickly grows into a strong and helpful young man. One day Mikeš is supposed to help a black rider with a horse's hoof. The work is done quickly. The black reminds Mikeš of his desire to go out into the world. An inkling of the future emerges. When Mikeš is able to throw the heavy magic knuckle that his grandfather once forged over the smithy , he is free as a blacksmith's journeyman and is allowed to hike. Mikeš sets off with the loving and concerned advice of his father and Jakub, bread and the knickle over his shoulder.

The three wanderers

Mikeš finds amazing companions on his way: It is calm when Mikeš meets the miller Matěj. It is so strong that it turns the windmills of the mill by pushing it. However, he doesn't have it well with his master, and so Matěj is quickly ready to go on a hike with Mikeš. A few steps further on the boys meet the woodcutter Ondřej. The boy is so strong that he pulls up the trees with his bare hands and carries them home on his back. But he doesn't have it well with his master either. And so the three guys hike together - with a lot of fun and lots of strength.

The three missing princesses

Mikeš with the iron club over his shoulder is the strongest of the three comrades, and he whistles his happy song while hiking - but one day they meet soldiers who want to forbid them to be happy. And in a gloomy tavern they find out more: The landlady tells the three journeymen about the misfortune of the kingdom: The king had three beautiful daughters who all disappeared one year after another on their eighteenth birthday and despite the greatest efforts remain as if swallowed by the earth . And under the starry sky, the landlady Mikeš tells about the princesses:

But the youngest was the most beautiful, and her eyes were so blue and her heart was so good - a dream image of the blue flower .

Mikeš then makes a decision. The next morning, Ondřej and Matěj are rudely awakened from the straw: Mikeš wants to go to the king and free the princesses.

In the palace

The audience with the king is easily achieved for the three strong, even if the guards refuse to admit this at first and a burlesque fight precedes. In the throne room sadness reigns. The paintings of the three daughters are veiled in transparent black tulle. Mikeš only has eyes for the picture of the most beautiful youngest. But when the king addresses him harshly, he is back in the present. To the insinuation that he only wants to play king and therefore free the princesses, Mikeš answers proudly and upright: Mikeš acts out of pity and will ask himself the way:

And when the wanderer doesn't know what to do, the mind must advise, and when the mind doesn't know what to do next, the voice of the heart must speak - and it never fails.

The king begins to believe in the young blacksmith. And, to the surprise of Ondřej and Matěj, the three journeymen are given permission to go looking. The only evidence of the disappearance of the three girls is a victorious battle between the royal father and the black king over the years for the mother of the three girls.

Search and temptation

Even if Ondřej and Matěj really like the hospitality in the castle, the difficult path through the worst of imponderables soon arouses their displeasure. Snow, swamp and wilderness soon reveal the weaknesses of Mikeš's strong friends: Matěj becomes compliant with roasts, sausages and other delicacies. Ondřejs cannot withstand gold and silver. At a magical three-way fork, the journeymen go to sleep. Here Mikeš has the path in front of his eyes in a dream that leads him to his princess. And while he bravely takes this thorny path in the morning, his friends allow themselves to be guided by their greed on the two easy paths, but all seductive appearances dissipate into nothing, and soon the friends are back with Mikeš. He has found a strange, eerie house - but three roasts are ready for the friends upon arrival.

Trial of the Magic Fox

The next morning, however, there is no entertainment. Matěj is supposed to cook a porridge while Mikeš and Ondřej look around for something to eat. But when the fat miller's boy stirs the porridge, a magical fox appears and seduces him. He is supposed to give the porridge, and when the magic fox promises him a suckling pig for it, Matěj forgets his comrades. The fox faints him. It is no different for woodcutter Ondřej roasting a measly catch while Matěj and Mikeš are out and about. Ondřej is seduced by the fox with money and knocked out with a faint. So the three are still hungry. When Mikeš is preparing the meal, the fox also appears and tries to beguile him with all sorts of things. But Mikeš tears the beard off the animal and gains power over the being, which now appears as an old gnarled woman. Mikeš and his friends can finally eat. And when Mikeš strokes the fox's beard, the old witch has to appear. Mikeš asks her for information on how to get to the princesses. And the friends learn that the black king kidnapped the girls into the underworld. This can only be achieved by lowering yourself on a rope into a dry well. Mikeš sets off and tells his comrades to wait for him at the edge of the well. He descends.

The underworld

The blacksmith struggles laboriously through the subterranean world. The old woman warns. With the goal in mind, Mikeš keeps his word and gives the old woman the tuft of hair back. She gives him a magic light that opens gates - but Mikeš has to use the candle once and it must not go out, otherwise his life and that of the old woman will be forfeited. But Mikeš defeats the dragon gate of the underworld with the light and the little saying:

Burn lights, burn light ones, give me access right now.

In the labyrinth of a surreal castle world, he finds two princesses, the sisters of his loved ones. The youngest remains gone. With the decision to look for his loved one later, Mikeš leads the sisters to the well shaft . Matěj and Ondřej willingly bring up the beautiful. But when Mikeš wants to go up, the old witch warns against too much trust, and Mikeš first lets the boys pull up his iron club. But Ondřej and Matěj look to their advantage: “For each of them a princess.” - And they let the rope fall.

The fight with the black king

Mikeš sees the bucket tumble. The attack is for his life. The friends show their true colors. But when he turns to the old woman, it is clear that the old man is not what it seemed: Behind the disfiguring witches - mask hides Mikeš 'Dearest - a mirage erzwunger the black king. The beautiful gives Mikeš a rose-shaped identification ring . Mikeš has to face the treacherous fight with the ruler of the underworld . This, the princess confides in him, has its power in an egg that a vicious dog carries in its stomach. When he meets the mocking prince, Mikeš is able to drive the dog away. He turns into a bird of prey , and when the old woman throws a crossbow to Mikeš , the blacksmith hits the bird with the arrow and the egg falls into Mikeš's hands. The black king demands a halt and offers Mikeš fame and power . In a vision , Mikeš appears as "The King of the World ". But Mikeš remains strong and breaks the egg. At the same moment the underworld melts away and Mikeš feels awakened on the rocky stone: “ Was it all a dream ?” But the princess's rose ring testifies to the truth of what he experienced. And Mikeš makes the long, arduous way back.

Homecoming

The lost princesses have now arrived in the kingdom. Matěj and Ondřej forced the two elders to remain silent about Mikeš. The girls are sadly looking forward to their marriage. The youngest princess appears out of nowhere and asks the royal father for a year. The day before the deadline, Mikeš appears in the castle with the rose ring. Happy Mikeš and his princess fall into each other's arms, while the two older - also happy - expose their deceitful suitors. The miller and the lumberjack are sent back to their ungrateful masters as punishment by Mikeš. Mikeš returns to his father's forge with his loved one. And soon there will be little Miška there. He would like to play with his father Mikeš's knuckle. And again the song of the fairy tale sounds:

The happy daughter of royal family found a sincere husband for herself. They lived happily together, like the little cakes at the stove. But the end of our story is knocking on the gate now. May the happy ending please all hearts.

Fairy tale fabric

Božena Němcová's fairy tale The intrepid Mikesch served as a template for the film The Brave Blacksmith . In this fairy tale Němcová addresses the motif of the “three disappeared princesses”; this motif also corresponds to Grimm's fairy tale Dat Erdmänneken . The fairy tale film differs only slightly from Němcová's version: Mikesch alias Mikeš leaves his parents' smithy on a wandering journey with a seven hundred pound iron club; his powerful comrades are not called Matěj and Ondřej, as in the film, but Kuba and Bobesch. At Grimms Erdmänneken , three hunter boys set out in search of the missing girls, here it is said of the hero of the story that he is not worldly. Němcovás fairy tale also describes the Dreiweggabelung, the guard and the temptations of a male - in Grimm a meerkat in Dobšinský a Ellerbart, in the film a fox beings - this being transformed unlike Grimm in Nemcova and film by tearing out the beard only into an old woman who later turns out to be the longed-for, beautiful one. She gives Mikesch a magic candle with magic spells: "Burn my light brightly, destroy evil eyes." The betrayal of comrades when pulling out from the depths is similarly described in Němcová, Dobšinský , Grimms and in the fairy tale film. From the Grimm version, however, the film adopts the image of the well as a descent into the underworld, while Němcová and Dobšinský speak of a hole in the ground. In contrast to Němcová, the underground battle for the princess takes place. While Mikesch in the film in the ruler of the underworld has to defeat a "giant without a heart", as described in Grimm's fairy tale The Crystal Ball, in Němcová's version the young blacksmith has to overcome a dragon, similar to Grimm's Dat Erdmänneken , where the poor princesses are three many-headed dragons have to scratch before they are redeemed. Also in Pavol Dobšinskýs Eichenschreck , the Slovak fairy tale of the “three disappeared princesses”, the battle for the princesses three underworld dragons applies. The strength of the three comrades, the Eichenschreck, Bergschreck and Eisendreher, is comprehensively detailed here. The film has episodes of the wandering boys from this fairy tale, such as B. pull a hay cart out of the ditch with your bare hand. The film motif of the flying iron club, which Eichenschreck hurled into hell , can also be found in this fairy tale. Typical of the Slovak fairy tale is the image of the three castles of the Otherworld that can be transformed into apples in copper , silver and gold . The comrades of Eichenschreck alias Mikeš are not quite as angry here, despite the treacherous attack at the hole in the ground, and their punishment is only to have to marry the apparently relatively ugly older princesses.

synchronization

The German dubbing was done in the ateliers of DEFA Filmstudios , Babelsberg . German speakers for this dubbed version were Juliane Korén , Holm Gärtner , Herbert Sand , Tim Hoffmann and others. a .; The dialogues of the German version were written by Willi Lindner , directed by Marion Schöneck , Hildegard Reue was responsible for editing and Hans-Joachim Mattner for the sound .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ "From the brave blacksmith" - certificate of release. FSK , May 17, 1994, accessed May 30, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Božena Němcová : The intrepid Mikesch in Das goldene Spinnrad , pp. 103-122; Paul List-Verlag Leipzig, oA; ca 1960.
  3. ↑ From the brave blacksmith. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used