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Poster of Rumpelstiltskin

Rumpelstiltskin

Original title: Das Zaubermännchen

1960 · 1 h 13 · XG · German

  • Family
  • Fantasy

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…

Directed by
Erwin Anders, Christoph Engel
Written by
Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Margot Beichler, Christoph Engel

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