The Tender Tale of Cinderella Penguin

The Tender Tale of Cinderella Penguin, French title La Tendre Histoire de Cendrillon pingouin, is a Canadian animated short film by Janet Perlman from the year 1981.

Action

A romantic predisposed Penguin female lives with the mother and her two stepsisters in a house. While she has to do the housework, the other always clean out. One day, the Prince invites you to a ball and mother and step- sisters go richly dressed down. The penguin, who is responsible for housework sad remains back. Suddenly a small Pinguinfee appears transformed in mice Penguin horses and a pumpkin in the garden in a carriage. The penguin gets a festive dress, white high heel shoes in the form of flippers and the obligation to be back home until midnight.

At the ball the prince dances only with the penguin, who breaks but precipitously shortly before midnight. He loses a shoe. The Prince can now look for the penguin and also the mother and step-sisters clean out her feet. The penguin is locked in the basement, where one foot is caught in the cellar door. When the stepsisters argue about the shoe of the Prince, this falls directly on the trapped foot of the penguin. The Prince has found his treasure and it comes to the wedding.

Production

The Tender Tale of Cinderella Penguin is a humorous variation of the fairy tale Cinderella, the acting figures penguins. The film came in 1981 in the Canadian movie theaters and festival ran in October 1982 at the Chicago International Film first time in the USA.

Janet Perlman brought in 1992, the film based on the children's book Cinderella Penguin out.

Awards

The Tender Tale of Cinderella Penguin was nominated for an Oscar in the category " Best Animated Short Film " nominated in 1982, but could not prevail against Crac itself.