Into the Forest: Folktales at DEFA (5 films) (1957)
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Eureka Entertainment - 27 juillet 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 :
Format : Blu ray Limited Edition - 5 films / Import UK
Zone : B
Genre : Aventure, Fantasy
Synopsis
In The Devil from Mill Mountain, a greedy miller attracts the ire of forest spirits when he and his accomplices disguise themselves as demons to burn down a rival mill. In The Singing Ringing Tree, a young prince must find a legendary tree to win the heart of an icy princess – and risks being transformed into a bear if she fails to fall in love with him. Rumpelstiltskin follows a young woman whose boastful father claims she can spin straw into gold, leading her to make an ill-advised pact with a magical imp. Then, the eponymous Little Red Riding Hood sets off to see her sick grandmother, relying on her friends the rabbit and the bear to help her evade the cunning fox and the big bad wolf. Finally, The Devil’s Three Golden Hairs sees an unfortunate young man tasked with travelling into hell to retrieve three golden hairs from the Devil himself.
- 1080p HD presentations of all five films from restorations by the DEFA Foundation
- Original German soundtracks
- Optional English soundtracks for The Singing Ringing Tree and The Devil’s Three Golden Hairs
- Optional English subtitles, newly translated for this release
- New audio commentary on The Devil from Mill Mountain by film historian Michael Brooke
- New audio commentary on Rumpelstiltskin by Sam Goff, editorial director for Klassiki and host of The Klassiki Kino Club podcast
- Fairytales and Nightmares – new interview with writer, broadcaster and Fortean Times columnist Bob Fischer on the history of The Singing Ringing Tree
- DEFA and the Devil – new video essay on the depiction of the Devil in folktales from the Brothers Grimm to DEFA by film and literature scholar Mary Going
- The Magic Scissors (Bruno J. Böttge, 1956) – short silhouette animation inspired by traditional folktales and produced by the DEFA Studio for Animation Film
- Sleeping Beauty Was a Beautiful Child (Katja Georgi, 1987) – short puppet animation adapted from Sleeping Beauty by the DEFA Studio for Animation Film
- The Wolf and the Seven Little Goats (Otto Sacher, 1990) – short cut-out animation adapted from the Brothers Grimm story by the DEFA Studio for Animation Film