Beneath the Trees: Folktales at DEFA II (5 films) (1959-1991)
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Eureka Entertainment - 20 octobre 2026
(Edition limitée en fonction des stocks disponibles, ensuite arrive une version simple, non contractuel après la période de précommande)
Titre Original :
Audio : German
Sous-titres : English
Durée : 6h13
Format : Blu ray Limited Edition - 5 films / Import UK
Zone : B
Genre : Romance, Comédie, Fantasy
Synopsis
In The Tinderbox, a young soldier agrees to help a conniving witch in her quest to retrieve a magical tinderbox protected by a guard dog of monstrous proportions. Snow White sees an evil queen task a hunter with murdering her stepdaughter when a magic mirror deems her the most beautiful woman in the land. Then, in Snow White and Rose Red, two young sisters encounter a pair of princes who have been transformed into animals by an evil mountain spirit. The Frog King follows a princess who must endure a series of trials to reach the castle of the Frog King, where she hopes to reunite with the handsome prince she once mistreated. Finally, in The Robe, two weavers arrive in a town surrounded by an impenetrable wall and are tasked with making garments befitting of a tyrannical ruler in an adaptation of “The Emperor’s New Clothes.”
- 1080p HD presentations of all five films from restorations by the DEFA Foundation
- Original German soundtracks
- Optional English soundtrack for The Tinderbox
- Optional English subtitles, newly translated for this release
- New audio commentary on The Tinderbox by socialist cinema expert Ally Pitts, host of A Russian and Soviet Movie Podcast
- New audio commentary on The Robe by film historian Michael Brooke
- Two Kingdoms – new interview with German cinema expert Rachel Palfreyman on the history of folktales in German culture and their adaptations in West and East Germany
- Mirror, Mirror – new video essay on DEFA’s adaptations of Snow White and Snow White and Rose Red by film and animation scholar Sam Summers
- The Emperor’s New Clothes (Herbert K. Schulz, 1956) – short stop-motion animation adapted from the Hans Christian Andersen tale by the DEFA Studio for Animation Film
- Hans Christian Andersen tale by the DEFA Studio for Animation Film The Fisherman and his Wife (Werner Krauße, 1975) – short stop-motion animation adapted from the Brothers Grimm tale by the DEFA Studio for Animation Film
- Beauty and the Beast (Katja Georgi, 1976) – short stop-motion animation adapted from the Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve tale by the DEFA Studio for Animation Film