Vom Bäumlein, das andere Blätter hat gewollt

From the little tree, the other leaves willed is a German animated short film by Heinz Tischmeyer from the year 1940. Based on the poem of the same by Friedrich Rückert movie contains anti-Semitic passages.

Action

A conifer is sad because he bears no leaves, but only pointed needles. He wishes golden leaves and falls asleep. The next morning he wears golden leaves, shines and shines and is happy. Even the birds are reflected delighted in its leaves. A Jew comes through the forest, drive the birds and pluck all the leaves from the tree that remains now bald.

The tree now wants glass sheets and wakes up the next morning with sheets of glass. This soon by the wind to break. Also the next Wünsch - green leaves - bring the tree out of luck, because a hungry goat eats the whole tree now empty. In the end, the tree wants back his needles and laughs pleased when he wakes up as a conifer. In his laughter, the surrounding trees and all the animals of the forest a vote.

Production

Heinz table Meyer ( * 1913) from 1936 had its own cartoon studio and animated by the little tree that has different leaves wanted on behalf of Schongerfilm. As a manufacturer of the film is the opening credits " nature film Hubert Schonger " called. The seven-minute animated film has Friedrich Rückert's poem from little tree, the other leaves has willed the foundation. The film to be seen in the figure of the Jew already contained in the original poem is like doing an " infamous [n ] Forward - caricature of a Jew."

In 2011, the film was released in the series History of German animated film on DVD.