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Froschkönig

DDR 1987/1988 Spielfilm


Fairytale movie based on a story by the Brothers Grimm. When the princess loses a golden ball in the well, a frog recovers the precious piece – but only under the condition that the princess has to share her meals, drinks, and her bed with him. Without thinking, the princess promises him to fulfil his demands. But when the frog enters her bed, she throws him against the wall in disgust. Suddenly, the frog turns into a handsome prince. But he cannot stay with her because she has broken her promise. The princess starts to look for him and has to pass a couple of test to get to the castle of the Frog Prince. She can only enter the castle disguised as a boy. Now she is able to fulfil her promise by working as an assistant for the cooper, the cook, and the chamberlain. Thus, the Prince is released and can marry her.

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Credits

Director

  • Walter Beck

Screenplay

  • Walter Beck

Director of photography

  • Wolfgang Braumann

Editing

  • Rita Hiller

Music

  • Günther Fischer

Cast

  • Jana Mattukat
    Henriette
  • Jens-Uwe Bogadtke
    Froschkönig
  • Peter Sodann
    König
  • Franziska Glöse-Ebermann
    Florentine
  • Susanne Lüning
    Geraldine
  • Thomas Wolff
    Askold
  • Pedro Hebenstreit
    Barnabas
  • Dieter Wien
    Carbinian
  • Günter Schubert
    Dagobert
  • Gunter Friedrich
    1. Reiter

Production company

  • DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme (Potsdam-Babelsberg) (Künstlerische Arbeitsgruppe "Johannisthal")

Alle Credits

Director

  • Walter Beck

Assistant director

  • Dagmar Kleist

Screenplay

  • Walter Beck

Scenario

  • Brigitte Bernert

based on

  • Gebrüder Grimm (DE) (Märchen)

Script editor

  • Gerd Gericke

Director of photography

  • Wolfgang Braumann

Assistant camera

  • Dietrich Pohl
  • Dieter Jaeger

Still photography

  • Dieter Jaeger

Production design

  • Christoph Schneider

Set construction

  • Erhard Kaatz
  • Lothar Bunge
  • Joachim Wolter

Prop master

  • Werner Giesler

Make-up artist

  • Klaus Becker
  • Waltraud Becker
  • Bernd A. Chmura (Froschentwurf)
  • Horst Misch (Plastisches Modell)

Costume design

  • Dorit Gründel

Editing

  • Rita Hiller

Sound

  • Werner Dibowski

Audio mixing

  • Helga Kadenbach

Music

  • Günther Fischer

Cast

  • Jana Mattukat
    Henriette
  • Jens-Uwe Bogadtke
    Froschkönig
  • Peter Sodann
    König
  • Franziska Glöse-Ebermann
    Florentine
  • Susanne Lüning
    Geraldine
  • Thomas Wolff
    Askold
  • Pedro Hebenstreit
    Barnabas
  • Dieter Wien
    Carbinian
  • Günter Schubert
    Dagobert
  • Gunter Friedrich
    1. Reiter
  • Karl Sturm
    2. Reiter
  • Gunnar Helm
    3. Reiter
  • Jürgen Hölzel
    4. Reiter

Voice

  • Gerd Blahuschek
    Feuer
  • Janina Hartwig
    Wasser
  • Carl Martin Spengler
    Wind

Production company

  • DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme (Potsdam-Babelsberg) (Künstlerische Arbeitsgruppe "Johannisthal")

Unit production manager

  • Siegfried Kabitzke

Location manager

  • Holger Bohm
  • Egon Schlarmann

Original distributor

  • Progress Film-Verleih (Berlin/Ost)
Duration:
1829 m, 67 min
Format:
35mm, 1:1,33
Video/Audio:
Orwocolor, Ton
Screening:

Uraufführung (DD): 26.06.1988, Berlin, Colosseum

Titles

Additional titles
  • Originaltitel (DD) Froschkönig

Versions

Original

Duration:
1829 m, 67 min
Format:
35mm, 1:1,33
Video/Audio:
Orwocolor, Ton
Screening:

Uraufführung (DD): 26.06.1988, Berlin, Colosseum

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