Mother Holly

Mother Holly (1963)

Family

The widow has an ugly and lazy daughter, Pechmarie, and a beautiful and hard-working step-daughter, Goldmarie. Because Pechmarie is her real daughter, the widow clearly favors her and makes Goldmarie do all the work. Poor Goldmarie must also sit and spin all day by the well until her fingers bleed. When she tries to rinse out the spindel, it drops into the cold water. Her unsympathetic step-mother tells her to jump in after it. Goldmarie does as she is told, and then wakes up in the middle of a beautiful field of flowers. This is the land of Frau Holle, who welcomes Goldmarie and invites her to stay, as long as she will help with the housework. Marie stays and serves Frau Holle gladly, until she suffers so terribly from homesickness that she asks to go home. Before bringing her back, Frau Holle rewards Marie with a shower of gold. Upon her return, Goldmarie and her gold are welcomed by her greedy step-sister and -mother. Hoping for the same kind of reward, the step-mother sends ...

Director: Gottfried Kolditz
Writers: Günter Kaltofen, Gottfried Kolditz.

Casts

	Mathilde Danegger as Frau Holle
	Karin Ugowski as Goldmarie
	Katharina Lind as Pechmarie
	Elfriede Florin as Witwe
	Herbert Graedtke as Mathias
	Rudi Pfaff as Hannes
	Jürgen Pörschemann as Klaus
	Rolf Dietrich Zienau as 1. Kind
	Wolfgang Vermeiren as 2. Kind
	Gudrun Lüth as 3. Kind

Crew