Dwarf nose (1953)

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Movie
Original title gnome nose
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1953
length 80 minutes
Age rating FSK o. A.
Rod
Director Francesco Stefani
script Emil Surmann
production Hubert Schonger
music Norbert Schultze
camera Wolf swan
cut Eva Ponto
occupation

Zwerg Nase is a German fairy tale film from 1953. It is based on the fairy tale Der Zwerg Nase by Wilhelm Hauff .

action

The 12-year-old Jakob helps at his mother's vegetable stand and also carries customers home with the goods they have bought. One day an old woman with a long nose comes to the booth who says that the herbs were bad and 50 years ago they were better. Jakob is upset that she is holding all the herbs to her nose and crushing them: “Get rid of your long nose!” He shouts and slaps her hand. “You don't like it, my beautiful long nose?” Scoffs the woman, “you should have one too, much longer than mine.” Finally she buys some cabbages that she would like Jakob to carry home. Jakob resists, but lets his mother persuade him. Other market women whisper whether the old woman is not the evil fairy herb white.

The old woman starts doing magic in her house and gives Jakob a soup that puts him in a dream-like state: He has to work for the old woman for seven years, including three years of cooking, and is taken with a dwarf as punishment for being abusive long nose transformed.

Jacob wakes up after seven years and walks back, but his parents don't recognize him and he is on his own. He applies to be a cook at the Duke's court, where the head chef lets him cook for a trial. The duke is enthusiastic and immediately hires him as the under-kitchen master “dwarf nose”, who has achieved national fame. A goose bought at the market, the enchanted Princess Mimi, begins to speak; Jakob keeps them secretly in his room. The duke receives a visit from the prince, Jacob cooks for two weeks, and finally the prince demands the queen of all dishes, the pâté souzeraine. Jakob doesn't know her, but Mimi, they both cook together at night, but the guest lacks the herb to sneeze . The Duke is extremely angry and promises the prince the pie for the next day as he knows it or the head of his sub-kitchen master. Next night, Mimi, who has just forgotten the herb, leads Jakob to the magic herb that grows under the full moon and that Jakob recognizes as the one from herbal wise soup. In his room he smells strongly and loses his long nose, dwarfism and hump. Both flee to the castle to see Mimi's father, who can unearth his daughter and, at Jacob's request, conjure up her parents.

Emergence

The outdoor recordings took place at the Ottobeuren monastery and in Memmingen , the indoor recordings both in the Ottobeuren monastery and in the Schonger studio in Inning am Ammersee . The distribution was taken over by Jugendfilm-Verleih GmbH ( West Berlin ), the premiere was on January 25, 1953 in Göppingen , and on September 20, 1953 in West Berlin. In 1953, dwarf nose was also shown at the third Berlin International Film Festival and at the fifth Venice International Film Festival for Children's Films.

criticism

  • Ponkie wrote in the film papers n: “The Schonger film (...) was a good success because it accommodates the child's imagination through" realistic action ", but also the critically observing visitor through careful attention to setting up the scene, through efforts to create an attractive photographic atmosphere and pretty directorial ideas satisfied. It is also pleasant that the film avoids that infantile and teasing kindergarten tone that is so easily attached to this type of film. "
  • The Lexikon des Internationale Films (1988 edition, p. 4486) thinks that it is a largely successful remake of the fairy tale by Wilhelm Hauff and notes that the film was subsequently redesigned because of some passages that were terrible for children .

VHS release

In January 1995 the film was released on VHS by Euro Video GmbH .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ronald M. Hahn , Volker Jansen, Norbert Stresau : Lexicon of Fantasy Films. 650 films from 1900 to 1986 . Heyne, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-453-02273-4 , p. 589.
  2. ↑ Dwarf nose. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed April 22, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used