A decent film adaptation The movie is cool for 1959, it's even, haha, like, special effects and computer graphics, anyway, it's better than King of Thrushbeard, which we watched the day before. Strange, because the tale of the Germans Brothers Grimm should have been more understandable to the filmmakers of the GDR than "Light" by the Dane Hans Christian Andersen. No, the subject of the freedom-loving princess in general turned out to be complicated and I involuntarily thought about this fairy tale. It is, however, not about her now, but about the German "Light".
The film turned out to be very positive and bright. The director predictably expanded the plot, and in some places smoothed out the rustle, which in the fairy tale looked like medieval savagery. For example, when a soldier who did not want to answer the question “why do you feel rotten” without any questions just cuts his head. The film was changed for the better. The soldier in general turned out to be exactly what he should be - kind, rather stupid and rather naive in everyday affairs.
"Fire" did not belong to my favorite fairy tales in Andersen, but the eternal theme of this storyteller, a double-edged sword - businesslike and kind, and here you can see without much difficulty. The names of the actors and director will not tell anyone. But, as I understood, some starred in other children’s films of the time (" Golden Goose, Madame Metelitsa, for example) and the series “Police Phone 110”.
Dogs that were needed in the plot, of different sizes, are duly enlarged. Now such techniques can only be laughed at, but done with the soul and quite convincingly. I didn’t like the storyline with the princess.
From the film, of course, you can see that it is half a century ago, but in those years the Germans filmed very good fairy tales. I really liked the Czechs better. Three Nuts for Cinderella, The Third Prince and the Arabela superseries. The film was shot at the famous studio “Defa”, which in the Soviet years made us happy with a series of films about Chingachguks, and, in addition to fairy tales, someone may remember the TV series “The Archive of Death”, “Shield and Sword”.
As a result, a good, very positive and bright fairy tale turned out.
8 out of 10.