1973 ‘Tři oříšky pro Popelku’ Directed by Václav Vorlíček
The film stars Libuse Safrankova as the title character, a young woman who is put upon by her stepmother and stepsisters. The film employs a twist, though, when a handsome prince comes knocking. Cinderella does not simply fall into the prince's arms. In this version, he must actively pursue the young woman who is a skilled sharpshooter prone to wearing hunting outfits. Cinderella also has three wishes at her disposal, gained from three magic nuts.
To the people that made the decision of having only one guy dubbing the entire norwegian version. Thank You.
Movie 2.5/5
Dub: 7.5/5
Recommended by MrJago for My Buddy the Elf Challenge
Here we have the classic story of Cinderella with a twist. Cinderella sure gets pushed around by her stepmother in this one too, but she's not sitting around and moping in the attic as we're used to. No, she runs around in the forest like some Ronia the Robber's Daughter character, getting in to snowball fights with the prince and shows off her hunting skills. She's free spirited, just as the prince, and they are meant for each other because of that. Not just because she shows up on the big ball looking beautiful and dropping her shoe... And oh, she also gets three wishes from an owl. Wishes that helps…
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This is apparently a massive festive tradition in its native Czech Republic, which I can understand perfectly. Stacked against British Christmas viewing, it's not quite Wallace and Gromit but it kicks the shit out of Eastenders - and manages to have an empowered, feisty heroine without feeling like a revisionist or non-traditional fairy tale. It is, simply, a fairy tale, with all the unironic satisfactions that implies. There's also a touch of Grimm around the edges; hard to imagine a children's film featuring this much bloodsports these days...
This is an absolutely lovely fairy-tale film, and 'delightful' is the best word I can think of to describe it. In this version of Cinderella, the heroine isn't a drippy, put-upon maid who patiently endures her suffering - she's defiant and talks back. Even better, she's also an expert huntress who is more than capable of showing the boys how to shoot an arrow. While it's clearly a small film with a modest budget it's well shot and it does a fantastic job of making you fall in love with the characters, particularly Cinderella and the Prince. They're given a lot more humanity and personality than you mind in most fairy-tale films, and little touches like the camaraderie between Cinderella and her fellow servants and the Prince's defiance of his tutor make all the difference.
This is utterly charming and I plan to make watching it a ritual around Christmas time - those snow-blanketed woods are truly magical.
3,5 / 5 - Great adaptation of a fairy tale. Acting, screenplay, sets, and camera-work are top-notch. To add to that, the entire film has a certain humanity and naivety that is clearly missing from most of the recent Disney crap.
Someone somewhen decided that this film is the fairytale that should be shown daily on TV throughout December-at least in Germany. The result: Exhibitions of film memorabilia in malls, overhyped women all ages humming the annoying soundtrack while dreaming of wearing a pink ballgown or riding through the snowy Czech woods, yet another DVD Special Edition. You can't escape it. It's madness.
The film itself is okay. Nothing special, just a solid fairytale with a rather catchy soundtrack.
not a fairytale fan and also Cinderella is probs my least fav so this was just annoying
Das wohl am
häufigsten gezeigte Märchen in Deutschland. Ich habe diesen Film schon gefühlte tausend Mal gesehen, und denn noch schafft er es, eine bestimmte, besinnliche Stimmung hervorzubringen.
Als Film betrachtet aber nichts wirklich Besonderes, die Inszenierung beeinhaltet nichts Auffälliges oder gar Neues.
Luckily I speak Czech so I don't have to watch the horrible Norwegian version. Fuck the guy who dubbed it and everyone else involved.
hi! i'm 23 years old, but only today i saw cinderella and her three wishes for the first time. with orchestra live music! in the same theatre in which 1919 the weimar republic was announced! i feel so empowered right now.
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