Snow White (1987 film)

• Sarah Patterson: Snow White
• Ian James Wright: Prince
• Nicola Stapleton: Snow White as a child
• Dorit Adi: good queen
• Douglas Sheldon: King
• Diana Rigg: stepmother
• Billy Barty: Iddy
• Mike Edmonds: Biddy
• Ricardo Gil: Kiddy
• Malcolm Dixon: Diddy
• Gary Friedkin: Fiddy
• Arturo Gil: Giddy
• Tony Cooper: Liddy
• Chana Eden: First lady in waiting
• Angela Levinson: Second maid of honor
• Linda Kaye: Third maid of honor
• Caroline Langford: Fourth maid of honor
• Julian Joy Chagrin: The face of the mirror
• Azara Rapoport: Father of the Prince
• Amnon Meskin: Hunter
• Michael Schneider: Hofschneider of the Vanities
• Jeff Guerner: friend of the Prince

Cannon Movie Tales: Snow White; also: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, is a fairy tale movie. MGM produced the film in the series A Cannon Movie Tale, studio recordings took GG Israel Studios, Jerusalem LTD. In the United States, the film had premiere in 1987; at the film festival in Cannes the film was first shown on 14 May 1987. A DVD edition is available; the film is based on the substance of the Snow White fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm.

Action

Prince

Through a snowy landscape rides a young prince with his retinue. After a long journey, he approaches the home, as he surprises lie a forest in front of him sees, he does not know and found the map. A rider warns him. The forest is known as a magic forest. But the young man asks to explore from the site. He rides alone. He sings the song Where am I going. In this he will realize that he is in search of his unknown love. In the middle of winter forest it is suddenly in front of a snowy glass coffin. When he removed the snow he sees in the coffin the most beautiful girl face. But then he hears noise. He hides it and appear Seven Dwarfs. And after some back and forth they are known, and the dwarves tell the story of the beautiful in a glass coffin:

Snow White's mother

It's snowing. A beautiful queen is expecting a child. And she wants a child of archetypal beauty: the lips as red as blood, skin as white as snow and hair as black as ebony. Cheerful it folds with her ​​ladies cloths and they sing and dance to the song: Let it snow. Full of joy, go to the king and his wife, the event counter. Snow White is born. When the king proclaimed happiness to his people, he must hasten to his wife. She dies and gives the child the name: Snow White

The little girl

A cheerful little girl has become Snow White. Gracefully she dances through the castle and singing to the music play the father Hoppin ' on My Daddy's Knee. Since coming - magnificently dressed - a redhead in.. It is the second wife of the king. She smiled at the father-daughter Idyll and urges haste. It has a reception. Cold she wants Snow White Good night. The little girl asks her father sadly for the right mother. With the doll in her arms Sleeping Beauty is put to bed by papa. But curious groping the girl going again. Since they erspät by the Schlüsslloch her ​​stepmother. The talks with a magic mirror. Snow White is hiding, and when the wife is gone Snow White also speaks to mirror the magic words that she has just heard. The mirror laughs from the little one. Horrified, the child flees and hides under the covers.

Hunting

The next morning it comes to hunting. Cheerful awakens the Little Father. Envious looks the queen the king's love for his beautiful daughter. The evil takes the opportunity and hires a hunter. The supposed to kill Snow White while hunting in secret. This Devising sings the wicked queen More Beautiful Than Me. Cleverly knows the hunter the little girl to lure into solitude, but when he wants to run the nefarious plan flees the little one. Snow White promises never to return to her father. The hunter has compassion and runs the little one. In despair at the loss of his child dies the king. Snow White runs through the wild forest, crashing through piles of leaves and rips the clothes. finally the little one arrives at a gnarled cottage. It is empty. And the hungry child jumping with the rollicking The Bed song by the hut and nibbles at the food they find.

The Seven Dwarfs

When the dwarfs return home in the evening they wonder about the disorder. But the next day they find the little girl. As Snow White from her fate reported the dwarves decide to keep the girl with him. And in a cheerful song, Iddy Biddy Names, they bring the bewildered child at their seven names: Iddy Biddy Liddy Diddy, Kiddy, Fiddy and Giddy.

Poison

Snow White grew up to be a picture of girls at the dwarves. Graceful supplies the Beautiful dwarf the budget and sings Every Day - song. But then learns the wicked stepmother of her speaking mirror that and where Snow White lives - because the answer to the question of the most beautiful, the mirror answered with: Snow White on the seven dwarfs over the seven mountains. That can not and will not bear the Envious. Disguised makes his way and sells Snow White a poisoned comb. The dwarfs find the girl and can help. The next day sold - this time dressed as a Chinese woman - the stepmother Snow White a bodice and tries thus to lace to death. Once again, save the dwarves. But then she brings out their entire magical powers. With the demonic song Lovely Hair she devises evil: And with a poisonous apple - white and red - she manages to poison the beautiful Snow White. But because the girl is so beautiful, the dwarves can not be separated and embed Snow White in the glass coffin - guarded by the dwarves and the animals of the forest. As far as the dwarves tell the shocked prince.

Encounter

On entreaties of the prince to give him the dwarves the beautiful girl with the glass coffin. He wants to bring Snow White to his castle. Snow storm breaks out. The coffin will be shaken. The girl gives the poison of himself and awakens. Delighted, the prince and the girl see come to life. They fall in love. The wedding is announced. Meanwhile, the evil queen prepares for the celebration of the year: the upcoming wedding of Prince. But the mirror explains the evil, not they themselves, but the young queen is the fairest. Enraged, the witch smashed the mirror. When she wants to appear at the wedding are aging witch with every step for years. Nevertheless, the evil Snow White and the bride immediately recognize. Horrified all to see how the envy consumes itself to ashes. And the prince closes his Beautiful exempt from the evil menace happy in the arms.

Background

In particular, at the level of the visual, the film is highly differentiated and steeped in tradition. When the little Snow White after her bed song in the dwarf hut tired as Goldilocks falls to sleep, it will find the dwarves in the morning in the manner of the Snow White image of Arthur Rackham.

The loving mother of Snow White appears in physiognomy and dress the image of a young woman by William Morris modeled (see page picture). The costumes of the film are oriented in style at the pictures of the Pre-Raphaelites. The castle stands on a wooded mountain top - similar to Neuschwanstein Castle .. inside and outside the architecture is Gothic Revival. The pictorial harmony of the Snow White world contrasts with the self-presentation of the stepmother, where the neo-Gothic trefoils and clover leaf shapes are poisoned with pop acrylic colors and neon lights to the inflated pomp. The Musical music is paler than the film images in this film. The songs combine the timeless Snow White fabric with a rather superficial acting fashionable world of sound. However, the content of the Snow White fairy tale is abysmal by the musical effects mitigated to the lovely childhood and brings this substance so in a komensurable for toddlers shape. The musical form puts the Snow White movie atmosphere in the vicinity of Mary Poppins and is also in the film musical tradition of Disney's animated Snow White. The love of Snow White and the prince 's love at first sight and is psychologically screened by history or deeper explanation neither in the movie nor in the Brothers Grimm. The craving her stepmother leads the film from very detailed. In particular, the film end is the view of almost fixed on all the details of evil, while the relief on the part of Snow White and Prince looks very shortened. The happiness of liberation is indeed articulated, however, appears somewhat stifled in the family idyll of the royal wedding. The exemption from the stepmother who has at least Snow White's childhood, her father and almost even Snow White's life on his conscience, could be fabulous, free, happy and radiant staged.

Synchronization

From Snow White the German synchronous processing is titled Snow White on DVD before - as well as the French dubbed version under the title Blanche Neige. Unfortunately, there is neither the German television broadcasts still in the DVD clues to the origin and the speakers of these dubbed versions.

There are also excellent German dubbing of the former television of the GDR for this and other Cannon Movie Tales films.

Reviews

• " Musical staging by the tale of the beautiful princess Snow White, which is on the run from her wicked stepmother refuge with the seven dwarfs. Children's film in a series of fairy tale adaptations of Yoram Globus - production that were only seen to a lesser extent in our cinemas. Focused on appearances, the film is quite entertaining, without being able to really convince. " Lexicon of international film