BENEATH THE TREES:
FOLKTALES AT DEFA II
(Masters of Cinema)
Region B Blu-Ray UK/European Version - Brand New Set |
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These are original and factory sealed.
They are
Region B
and play beautifully on
Blu-Ray players of:
Australian, NZ, PNG, European, African & Middle-East
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FEATURES:
Description:
Possessing an
eternally uncanny, weird and phantasmagorical quality, Märchenfilme
– or adaptations of popular folk and fairytales by the likes of
Wilhelm Hauff, Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm –
remain the productions that most distinctly characterise the cinema
of East Germany and its state-operated film studio, DEFA. Collected
here are some of the greatest – and strangest – folktale films made
in the German Democratic Republic: The Tinderbox, Snow White, Snow
White and Rose Red, The Frog Kingand The Robe.
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.”
Collected here are
some of DEFA’s best-known Märchenfilme – including The Tinderbox,
which was shown in a dubbed version on the BBC as part of the Tales
from Europe series – and some true rarities, including The Frog King
and The Robe, which was put into production in 1961 but not
completed and released until after the fall of the Berlin Wall. The
Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present these five Märchenfilme
for the first time on Blu-ray in the UK.
LIMITED
EDITION THREE-DISC BLU-RAY BOX SET SPECIAL FEATURES*:
Limited Edition of 2,000 copies
Limited edition hardcase
featuring new artwork by Carly A-F
Reversible inner sleeves
featuring new artwork for each film by Carly A-F
Limited edition
60-page book featuring a new essay on the production design of
DEFA’s folktales by Märchenfilme expert Corinna Alexandra Rader, new
notes on each film in this set by DEFA historians Sebastian
Heiduschke and Qinna Shen, plus the original Hans Christian Andersen
and Brothers Grimm stories that inspired The Tinderbox, Snow White,
Snow White and Rose Red, The Frog King and The Robe
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
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
* All extras subject to change
- Rated : Suitable for 12 years and over
- Language : German
- Package Dimensions : 17.78 x 13.97 x 1.27 cm;
190 g
- Director : Egon GÜNTHER, Gottfried KOLDITZ,
Konrad PETZOLD, Siegfried HARTMANN, Walter BECK
- Media Format : Blu-ray
- Run time : 6 hours and 13 minutes
- Release date : 19 Oct. 2026
- Actors : Eric S. KLEIN, Eva Maria HAGEN,
Hans-Peter MINETTI, Pavel TRÁVNÍČEK
- Studio : Eureka Entertainment Limited
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