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Rumpelstiltskin

  • 1960
  • TMDB 5.4/10
  • 1h 13m

East German adaptation of Grimm‘s fairy tale "Rumpelstiltskin". A boastful miller pretends that his daughter Marie can spin straw into gold, and so she is locked into a room full of straw and ordered to spin it into gold by the next morning. A little man appears and offers his help in exchange for Marie's necklace. The greedy treasurer makes Marie spin twice more until the only thing she has left to give the little man is the promise of her first-born child…

Overview

East German adaptation of Grimm‘s fairy tale "Rumpelstiltskin". A boastful miller pretends that his daughter Marie can spin straw into gold, and so she is locked into a room full of straw and ordered to spin it into gold by the next morning. A little man appears and offers his help in exchange for Marie's necklace. The greedy treasurer makes Marie spin twice more until the only thing she has left to give the little man is the promise of her first-born child…

Cast

  • Karl-Heinz RothinMüller Kunz
  • Karin LeschMüllerstochter Marie
  • Reinhard MichalkeMüllerbursche Hans
  • Peter DommischDer einfältige Nachbar
  • Nikolaus ParylaKönig
  • Bodo MetteSchatzmeister
  • Siegfried SeibtRumpelstilzchen
  • Franz BonnetTorwächter

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