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Hänsel und Gretel (1954)iMDB Rating: 5.5
Date Released : 1 November 1965
Genre : Family, Fantasy
Stars : Jürgen Micksch, Maren Bielenberg, Barbara Gallauner, Jochen Diestelmann." />
Movie Quality : HDrip
Format : MKV
Size : 700 MB

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Review :

A Fun Fantasy in Storybook Color!

Spare but pleasant German telling of the beloved fairy tale avoids the eccentricity of the East German 1970 version and misses the sublime qualities of the 1954 animated classic, but might be called the most balanced telling of the tale. The characters are attractive and sincere (including a strangely alluring witch). The sets are fanciful and pleasing. The film unweaves in record time, less than an hour. The dubbing stinks as usual. Paul Tripp's breathy narration is reduced to one sentence at the start and one at the end. Though this was billed as "a musical fantasy," I only caught two mini-songs (penned by Anne & Milton Delugg) in the whole film, each less than a minute long (best one: "Mr. Moon Above"). A couple of nice touches, though: H & G build a big snowman and it comes to life and has a smoke; the gingerbread house is a great set, like a real-life coloring book; and the faces on the flowers are pretty cool. This one is weird enough to be pyschotronic, yet good enough to be considered a classic of the genre. The soundtrack album to this short feature, released by Golden Records, had virtually the whole movie on it! One of the first releases from Childhood Productions, I saw this in 1966 on a super- cool double bill with the amazing THE BREMENTOWN MUSICIANS! Wow, what a day! Kid Rhino has a real nice video of this available.