Die Wunderwelt der Gebrüder Grimm

Originaltitel: The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm

1962
6
2 Std. 15 Min.

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

6,4/10

2276

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Barbara Eden, Claire Bloom, Laurence Harvey, Karlheinz Böhm, Yvette Mimieux, and Russ Tamblyn in Die Wunderwelt der Gebrüder Grimm (1962)

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Adventure Biography Comedy Drama Family Fantasy Musical Romance

Die Geschichte von Wilhelm und Jacob Grimm und drei ihrer Geschichten.Die Geschichte von Wilhelm und Jacob Grimm und drei ihrer Geschichten.Die Geschichte von Wilhelm und Jacob Grimm und drei ihrer Geschichten.

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

6,4/10

2276

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

1 Oscar gewonnen
- 2 Gewinne & 8 Nominierungen insgesamt

Wissenswertes
Rumors that this movie could never be "restored" because the original 3-panel Cinerama camera negatives were heavily water damaged are untrue. Sources close to Warner Brothers and Cinerama Inc, report there is actually very minimal water damage to one edge of one panel in only some reels, and the Technicolor color separation prints are intact for the entire film. Therefore if any of the water damage actually would show on screen or video, that footage could be replaced with new negative made from the Technicolor separations. 3 color separation reels for each of the 3 Cinerama panels means the replacement process would be costly, but not impossible.

Patzer
Automobile visible driving in the distance when the brothers are walking along the street.

Zitate
Children: [chanting over and over] We want a story! We want a story! We want a story! We want a story!
Jacob Grimm: [to Wilhelm] Just tell them I'm your brother.

Crazy Credits
At the end, the credits simply say: "And they lived happily ever after". There is no "The End" credit or "Cast of Characters".

Alternative Versionen
The current version shown on Turner Classic Movies is the full-length version, not seen since the film's 1962 roadshow release, not even on television. Not only does it include an Overture, Entr'acte and Exit Music; it also includes the long-unseen two-minute prologue to the main title. After we see the M-G-M lion roaring and the words "Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Cinerama present a George Pal Production", the scene changes to show two armies firing off cannon furiously, while the announcer says, "Once again, at the beginning of the nineteenth century, Europe was torn by the sounds of war. However, if you listen very closely, you might hear another, very different sound". The camera then pans into the horizon while we hear the soft sounds of quill pens writing on paper. The scene then switches to show Laurence Harvey and Karl Boehm writing busily as the credits come up onscreen.

Verbindungen
Featured in The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal (1986)

Soundtracks
Dancing Princess
Words and Music by Bob Merrill
Performed by Russ Tamblyn (uncredited)

Benutzerrezensionen44

Rezension

Ausgewählte Rezension

8/10

Competing With Shirley Temple

Back when it first was out I never did get around to seeing The Wonderful World of The Brothers Grimm and it should be seen in the theater rather than a formatted VHS version. This was indeed a film for which Cinerama was definitely suited.

During the Fifties a whole lot of the Grimm stories were used in a shortlived series hosted by the grown up Shirley Temple entitled Shirley Temple's storybook. I think they were better presented on the big screen.

I'm not sure if these in fact are the real Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm as played by Laurence Harvey and Karl Boehm. Wilhelm is the married one, in fact married to the lovely Claire Bloom, with two small children and it's those kids who keep him interested in German folklore and tales of such. The more serious minded Jacob, scholar, historian, and linguist would like to marry Barbara Eden, but that ain't happening unless the brothers finish the dynastic history they've been commissioned to write by Duke Oscar Homolka. And Jacob can't keep Wilhelm's mind on the business at hand.

The real story of the brothers is merely a plot device on which to hang cinematic presentation of three of the Grimm fairy tales and the presence of a lot of the others during a delirious fever sustained by Laurence Harvey. The regular story is directed by Henry Levin, but George Pal who probably got the biggest budget in his career to utilize in The Wonderful World of The Brothers Grimm gets to direct the fairy tale segments.

My favorite is The Singing Bone with Terry-Thomas as the braggadocious knight and Buddy Hackett as his put upon squire and their encounter with a dragon in a cave. That is George Pal and Cinerama at their very best.

Don't expect a whole lot from this film, it's not deep, it was meant for the kid market. And it dates not a bit though with today's computer generated special effects it would be even better if done today.