How to kiss Sleeping Beauty awake
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | How to kiss Sleeping Beauty awake |
| Original title | Jak se budí princezny |
| Country of production | ČSSR |
| original language | Czech |
| Publishing year | 1977 |
| length | 86 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 6 (DVD, 2004), 0 (DVD with DEFA synchronized version , 2012) |
| Rod | |
| Director | Václav Vorlíček |
| script | Bohumila Zelenková |
| production | Barrandov film studio |
| music | Karel Svoboda |
| camera | František Uldrich |
| cut | Miroslav Hájek |
| occupation | |
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How to Wake Up the Sleeping Beauty (also known as Princess Sleeping Beauty or How to Wake Up Princesses ) is one of the most famous Czechoslovak fairy tale films . It was created in 1977 under the direction of Václav Vorlíček . In France, the film was released under the title Comment on réveille les princesses .
action
A royal couple in the peaceful kingdom of roses is given an only daughter after a long wish. The people are enthusiastic, but at the festive feast in the castle for the cradle of the little princess, the royal family is depressed that an invited guest did not come. The couple decides to visit the invited woman, who apparently does not want to come to the castle, with little Rosa.
The royal family rides in a pink carriage to a derelict house in the woods. The loving, old servant leads the royal couple in the hut to a beautiful but angry laughing woman who is sitting by the fireplace. It's Melánie, Queen Elizabeth's older sister. She meets the royal couple with a sneer and rejects all attempts by her sister and brother-in-law to bring them into the castle and live with them in peace. The beautiful Melanie is angry that her brother-in-law married her sister Elisabeth and not herself, and Elisabeth envy the rule and dignity of the queen, who would have rightfully been granted to her as the older sister. In her anger, Mélanie curses Rosa and prophesies that Rosa will sting herself when she is 17, and then have to sink into eternal sleep, and with her the whole kingdom of roses. Horrified, the royal couple fled the hut with their child. They are followed by the old woman with the loving face of a wise woman. She leans over the child and says: "Love is even stronger than death".
The royal couple interprets the old woman's saying that if they manage to marry Rosa off before her 17th birthday, everyone will be saved. In addition, the king wants to prevent his child from stinging anything at all costs. The otherwise so humane and deliberate king begins to give absurd instructions and to have all roses destroyed.
Rosa has grown into a beautiful sixteen year old girl, but she is constantly monitored so she doesn't sting herself. Prince Georg from the realm of midnight is supposed to marry Rosa and thus save the kingdom of roses. Georg, who arrives in the afternoon, turns out to be a spoiled, pompous bore. His younger brother Jaroslav, on the other hand, has many good sides and Rosa falls in love with him. To avoid the curse, Rosa is said to become engaged to Georg, who has sent the competitor Jaroslav back to the realm of midnight under sanctimonious pretexts. Rosa breaks off her engagement to Prince Georg because she doesn't love him - the families fall apart in anger.
In the realm of roses, Rosa's sixteenth birthday is celebrated sadly. The crazies in destroying all tips are increasing. In the park, Rosa finds Jaroslav's hat feather, which fell on his way, and runs to a nearby tower, as she suspects Jaroslav himself is there. She finds roses up there, picks them up as something completely new, pricks herself. The whole empire falls asleep. Aunt Melánie is the only one awake and laughingly snatches the crown from her sleeping sister.
Jaroslav learns of Rosa's misfortune. With great difficulty and against the will of his parents and his brother, he goes on the hike with his servant Mathias. After much effort he finds Rosa in the tower, kisses her and redeems the kingdom of roses.
production
The first showing in the Federal Republic of Germany ran in two parts on the ARD on January 8th and 9th, 1980, in the GDR cinema this film was shown for the first time on March 14th 1980 and in the FRG cinema on April 11th 1981. Since then the film runs regularly on German television at times, but less often in winter; rather, in keeping with the spring-like landscapes in the film, it is more present on television in spring and summer.
material
How Sleeping Beauty wachküßt attacks on film both motives of the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale of the Brothers Grimm on, as well as motives of Charles Perrault's La belle au bois dormant . However, some of the Perrault-Grimm motifs are changed in this film. Rosa is awakened by the prince, with whom she falls in love before she is forced to sleep. Therefore, she does not have to sleep for 100 years, but only until redemption through mutual love. This explains some of the emotional constellations in the Grimm fairy tale. The prince's motivation to expose himself to the worst dangers for Sleeping Beauty becomes plausible through his love, and Rosa's love for Jaroslav also has a longer story before the kiss. The jealousy problem of the thirteenth fairy is shifted to the potential for conflict between the queen, Rosa's mother and her envious sister Melánie. This sister relationship of Melánie and Elisabeth is tragically reflected in the brother relationship of Georg and Jaroslav. The family fate, which is inherited psychologically, is turned to happiness through energy and love. The plot of the fairy tale is cinematically coordinated with the love affair between Rosa and Prince Jaroslav and thus even goes beyond the love symbolism laid out in the fairy tale: This is underlined by both the film plot and the fairy tale symbols: Like in Grimm's fairy tale, Rosa does not stab herself on a spindle but on the thorn of a rose in which - understandably distracted by this - she hopes for a proof of love from Jaroslav. The rose metaphor takes on a fairytale-like intensification on this cinematic path. The visual aesthetics of the film How to Wake Up the Sleeping Beauty is inspired by the elegiac Art Nouveau pictures by the Czech artist Maxmilián Pirner . But also the fairy tale illustrations by Edmund Dulac for La Belle au bois dormant by Charles Perrault have enriched the visual ideas of the film How to kiss the Sleeping Beauty awake .
synchronization
The German dubbing , which was initially shown on television in the Federal Republic and later on all-German television, was created in the Bavaria Atelier in Munich. In addition, a separate version was produced in the ateliers of the DEFA Studio for Synchronization Leipzig in the GDR . It can be seen for the first time on German television from 2018.
| role | actor | Bavaria synchronous version (FRG) | DEFA synchronous version (DDR) |
|---|---|---|---|
| pink | Marie Horáková | Constanze Engelbrecht | Elke Wieditz |
| Prince Jaroslav | Jan Hrušínský | Peter Ehret | Peter Berg |
| Servant Mathias | Vladimír Menšík | Walter Reichelt | Fred-Arthur Geppert |
| King, father of Rosa | Jiří Sovák | Alexander Kerst | Manfred Heine |
| Queen Elisabeth, Rosa's mother | Milena Dvorská | Karin Kernke | Rosemarie Deibel |
| Melánie, sister of the queen | Libuše Švormová | Emely Reuer | |
| Servant of Melánie | Marie Brozová | ||
| baron | František Filipovský | Leo Bardischewski | Alfred Bohl |
| King Vendelín of the Realm of Midnight | Oldrich Velen | Günther Sauer | Horst Kempe |
| Queen Anezka of the Realm of Midnight | Stella Zázvorková | Marianne Wischmann | Brigitte Kreutzer |
| Prince Georg | Jan Kraus | Pierre Franckh | Detlef Heintze |
| Hunter | Miloš Vavruška | Otto Stern | Walter Niklaus |
| Gardener Jakub | Václav Postránecký | Leon Rainer | Hasso Billerbeck |
| Miroslava | Evelyna Steimarová | Monika John | |
| Market woman | Monika John | ||
| Market woman | Alice Franz |
Reviews
- “Atmospheric children's film, freely based on the fairy tale.” - Lexicon of international film
Web links
- How Sleeping Beauty wachküßt in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Photos of the film on ČSFD.cz
- How to kiss Sleeping Beauty awake on fdb.cz
Individual evidence
- ↑ Princess Sleeping Beauty. In: zelluloid.de. Archived from the original on October 11, 2016 ; accessed on August 10, 2018 .
- ↑ Release certificate for Princess Sleeping Beauty . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , July 2012 (PDF; test number: 51 718 V).
- ↑ Cf. How to kiss Sleeping Beauty awake on pp. 307-310 in 77 fairy tale films - A film guide for young and old (eds.) Eberhard Berger, Joachim Giera u. a. Henschel Verlag GmbH; Berlin 1990; ISBN 3-362-00447-4
- ↑ This " prop shift " from the spindle to the rose and its symbolic meaning is an important observation of Fabienne Liptay in her interpretation of How to Wake Up the Sleeping Beauty : Fabienne Liptay: Wunderwelten - Märchen im Film p. 106 ff .; Michael Itschert, Gardez! Verlag; Remscheid, 2004; ISBN 3-89796-041-9
- ↑ ZB Max Pirner: V Rozkvetu [Démon láska V.] (= In full bloom, Demon Love V); 1883/84. The series Demon Love consists of 13 parts, all pastel on paper, 59x45 cm [1]
- ↑ Edmond Dulac La Belle au bois dormant - Eight colored fairy tale illustrations from 1910
- ↑ Announcement at fernsehserien.de: "CS / DDR 1978" ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Accessed February 22, 2018)
- ↑ How to Wake Up the Sleeping Beauty. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed August 10, 2018 .
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