Rumpelstiltskin and the Golden Secret (1960)
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…
Directors: Erwin Anders, Christoph Engel.
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Siegfried Seibt as Rumpelstilzchen |
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Karin Lesch as Müllerstochter Marie |
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Karl-Heinz Rothin as Müller Kunz |
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Reinhard Michalke as Müllerbursche Hans |
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Nikolaus Paryla as König |
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Peter Dommisch as Der einfältige Nachbar |
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Bodo Mette as Schatzmeister |
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Hans-Hartmut Krüger as Bote des Königs |
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Franz Bonnet as Torwächter |
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Werner Pfeifer as Schreiber |
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Hans Flössel as Erster Bauer |
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Hans Feldner as Zweiter Bauer |
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Dieter Schindelhauer as Dritter Bauer |
| Directing | Erwin Anders | Director |
| Directing | Christoph Engel | Director |
| Writing | Jacob Grimm | Story |
| Writing | Wilhelm Grimm | Story |
| Writing | Gudrun Deubener | Writer |
| Writing | Margot Beichler | Writer |
| Writing | Christoph Engel | Writer |
| Sound | Wolfgang Pietsch | Music |
| Crew | Erwin Anders | Cinematography |
| Editing | Anneliese Hinze-Sokolowa | Editor |