The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm

The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm is an American fantasy film directed by Henry Levin and George Pal in 1962 with Laurence Harvey and Karlheinz Böhm in the lead roles.

Action

The two linguists Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm are currently working for the local Duke, on whose behalf they are to capture the family history. William is interested in, much to the annoyance of his brother, doing more for collecting and writing folk and fairy tales that are told in the population in order to preserve this cultural treasure for future generations. His own children, he told me so one night the fairy tale The Dancing Princess.

When the two brothers with their work on the family history are finished, Wilhelm now wants to focus on the stories and the bookseller inspire Stossel sure in which he tells in whose shop the fairy tale The Shoemaker and the dwarves.

But then Jacob and Wilhelm are again called to the Duke: This keeps their work incomplete and calls for improvements. And so the two leave the next day with a Rhine to the place Rheinburg and separate there to collect any such material for themselves in the local archives. There Wilhelm hears from the old storyteller Anna Richter, who lives in a cabin in the woods near the town. He rushes there and listens, as the tale tells The Singing Bone local children. He can still dictate of her other stories and so missed almost the departure of the ship on the way back. On his run to the boat, where he is to meet again and Jacob, he stumbles and loses unnoticed the manuscript of the family history, which he carried with him. When they notice the loss, Jacob reacts angrily and separates on the site of William, as he looks along with him no future for themselves.

Wilhelm drags himself, weakened by pneumonia, which he has captured in Rheinburg alone to the Duke and confesses to him the loss of the manuscript. Also, it reacts angrily and called for the immediate payment of the rent for the house in which William could live with his family, and Jacob, while working for the Duke actually rent free. Wilhelm breaks down and is brought back home. In his delirium him the characters of his tale, telling it that they can not survive without his help appear. Urged by his fever is back, and he's back on the road to recovery.

Meanwhile, Jacob is driven by his guilty conscience, returned home and drives along with Stossel the money for the rent on. Jacob wants to continue working with William and triggers for even his engagement with the coming of young Greta Berlin Heinrich, the out disappointed returns to her hometown. Jacob and Wilhelm publish further linguistic works, but also the collected fairy tales which celebrate great successes in the book market.

Finally, the two are appointed as honorary members of the Berlin Academy. But they are offended because in the written ceremony only the scientific works, but not the fairy tales are mentioned. When the two arrive in Berlin, flow at the station at once from all directions masse children achieve, they will invite clamoring to tell them fairy tales. They are driven by Greta Henry, Jacob again looks happy there. William begins the narration with ... There were once two inseparable brothers. The children cheer aloud, the film ends with this.

Reviews

" More expensive equipment to Hollywood film - type, the three Tales of the Brothers Grimm - embedded in a ( not always factually correct ) biographical background story - The Dancing Princess, The Cobbler and the Dwarfs, The Singing Bone. The Spirit of fairy tales distant undemanding family entertainment. "

Background

  • Producer George Pal made ​​the film for MGM and Cinerama ago. For both film companies, it was the second feature film, which was shot in the three-lane Cinerama format, and even came before The West Was Won in the cinemas.
  • Two directors were involved in the film: George Pal, who went back to his Puppetoons and the stop-motion technique, took over the direction of the three tales episodes. Henry Levin has directed at the background story in Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Dinkelsbühl, Weikersheim, Spay, in the Rhine Valley and at Neuschwanstein Castle took place in the fall of 1961. An appearance as a children's choir of Rheinburg had the cathedral choir.

Awards

Soundtrack

  • Leigh Harline, Bob Merrill and Charles Beaumont: The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm. Original Motion Picture Soundtrack. On: The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm & The Honeymoon Machine. TCM / Rhino / Film Score Monthly (FSM ), Hollywood, 2010. Phonograms no. FSM Vol 13 No. 4 - stereophonic original recording of film music by the MGM Studio Orchestra conducted by Leigh Harline and a recording by the David Rose Orchestra
1962 in film Screenplay Paul Vogel Walter A. Thompson Walter Slezak Ian Wolfe Terry-Thomas How the West Was Won (film) Weikersheim Castle Rheintal (disambiguation) Academy Award for Best Cinematography Academy Award for Best Production Design Academy Award for Best Original Score The Twelve Dancing Princesses
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