Rumpelstiltskin

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

Writers

Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Margot Beichler, Christoph Engel, Gudrun Deubener

Released

July 29, 1960

Language

German