Movie
The Gingerbread House
1933
A gentle old-fashioned fairy-tale told with storybook charm, drifting between cozy wonder and a shiver of witchy menace.
- Directed by
- Oldřich Kmínek
- Genres
- Family, Fantasy
- Starring
- František Kotal, Dagmar Kmínková, Jan W. Speerger
- Overview
- 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.
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- Directed by
- Oldřich Kmínek
- Genres
- Family, Fantasy
- Starring
- František Kotal, Dagmar Kmínková, Jan W. Speerger
