Das Zaubermännchen
/
侏儒怪
director:
Erwin Anders
/
Christoph Engel
playwright:
Jacob Grimm
/
Wilhelm Grimm
/
Gudrun Deubener
/
Margot Beichler
/
Christoph Engel
actor:
Siegfried Seibt
/
Karin Lesch
/
Karl-Heinz Rothin
/
Reinhard Michalke
/
Nikolaus Paryla
…
genre:
Fantasy
/
Family
region:
XG
language:
German
length: 1h 13m
release date: 1960-07-29
IMDb: tt0307693
Das Zaubermännchen
overview
East German adaptation of Grimm‘s fairy tale "Rumpelstiltskin". A boastful miller pretends that his daughter Marie can spin straw into gold, and so she is locked into a room full of straw and ordered to spin it into gold by the next morning. A little man appears and offers his help in exchange for Marie's necklace. The greedy treasurer makes Marie spin twice more until the only thing she has left to give the little man is the promise of her first-born child…