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The Gingerbread House (1933)
Directed by Oldřich Kmínek
Family, Fantasy
Even children in an over-technified civilization need fairy tales, and Mrs. Fairy Tale invites them into her world. The woodcutter goes to the forest with his children, Hansel and Gretel. While their father works, the children pick strawberries. However, they get lost deep into the forest and lose their way back. After a sinister night, they find themselves in front of a honey gingerbread house. While peeling gingerbread, the witch catches them: she locks the skinny Hansel in a cage to fatten him up, and makes the plump Gretel her helper. However, benevolent angels watch over both children, appearing to them in their dreams and giving them hope for salvation.
Cast
Jan W. Speerger
Milka Balek-Brodská
Crew
- Director
- Oldřich Kmínek
- Screenplay
- Oldřich Kmínek
- Director of Photography
- Josef Bulánek
- Original Music Composer
- Antonín Maria Nademlejnský
- Producer
- Oldřich Kmínek
Details
- Original title
- Perníková chaloupka
- Release date
- 1933-12-22
- Genres
- Family, Fantasy
- Original language
- CS
- Spoken languages
- Czech
- Countries
- Czechoslovakia