Original title: Snow White / Little Red Riding Hood / Mother Hulda / The Devil's Three Golden Hairs / Snow White and Rose Red
Year: 1961 - 1979
Country: Germany
Region Code: A
Content: Blu-Ray
EAN: 850066568699
Image: 1080p
HDR: -
Audio: German - DTS-HD Mono
Subtitles: English
Age rating: Not Rated
Genre: Fantasy
Cast: Blanche Kommerell, Werner Dissel, Katharina Lind
Director: Gottfried Kolditz, Götz Friedrich, Egon Schlegel, Siegfried Hartmann
Synopsis:
The wildly surreal, music- and color-saturated world of fairy tale films or Märchenfilme from East Germany’s DEFA Studios are one of the great, still-overlooked subgenres in world fantasy filmmaking. Part Sid & Marty Krofft Saturday morning kiddie psychedelia, part sturdy Socialist moralizing, the Märchenfilme were one of DEFA’s most popular genres from the 1950s to 1970s. We’re thrilled to collaborate again with the DEFA Film Library at the Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst on this first-ever Blu-ray release of five of their best fairy tale gems:
SNOW WHITE (SCHNEEWITTCHEN) – 1961, 63 min., dir. Gottfried Kolditz. This lovely live-action version of the classic Bros. Grimm tale is in many ways the prototypical DEFA fairy tale film, with Doris Weikow radiating storybook charm as Snow White.
LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD (ROTKÄPPCHEN) – 1962, 72 min., dir. Götz Friedrich. Red Riding Hood (Blanche Kommerell) faces off against some of the mangiest and most terrifying forest creatures ever conceived, including The Big Bad Wolf (Werner Dissel) -- basically an American Werewolf in East Germany. Sure to give your 6-year old self nightmares for life.
MOTHER HULDA (FRAU HOLLE) – 1963, 57 min., dir. Gottfried Kolditz. Lazy daughter Pechmarie (Katharina Lind) and hardworking stepdaughter Goldmarie (Karin Ugowski vie for the approval of magical Frau Holle, who lives in an insanely artificial Pee Wee’s Playhouse-meets-Lidsville underground world.
