MOVIE · 1960
Rumpelstiltskin
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…
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Rumpelstiltskin
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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
Featured cast
Karl-Heinz RothinMüller Kunz
Karin LeschMüllerstochter Marie
Reinhard MichalkeMüllerbursche Hans
Peter DommischDer einfältige Nachbar
Nikolaus ParylaKönig
Siegfried SeibtRumpelstilzchenMORE TO EXPLORE
