The New Adventures of Snow White

The New Adventures of Snow White
The New Adventures of Snow White
German	Grimms Märchen von lüsternen Pärchen
Directed by	Rolf Thiele
Written by	Jacob Grimm (stories); Wilhelm Grimm (stories); Peter Laregh; Rolf Thiele;
Produced by	Gerald Martell; Walter Tjaden;
Starring	Marie Liljedahl; Eva Reuber-Staier; Ingrid van Bergen;
Cinematography	Wolf Wirth
Edited by	Waltraut Hopp
Music by	Bernd Kampka
Production; company	Caro-Film
Distributed by	Inter-Verleih Film
Release date	29 August 1969;
Running time	91 minutes
Country	West Germany
Language	German

The New Adventures of Snow White (German: Grimms Märchen von lüsternen Pärchen) is a 1969 West German sex comedy film directed by Rolf Thiele and starring Marie Liljedahl, Eva Reuber-Staier, and Ingrid van Bergen. The film puts an erotic spin on three classic fairy tales Snow White, Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty. It exemplified the downturn in the career of Thiele who earlier in the decade had still been a mainstream director, but increasingly found himself making lower-budget sex comedies.^[1]

It was made at the Emelka Studios in Munich.

Plot

The film is led by two traveller who are on a journey. They also meet Snow White, who climbs naked on a rock, pursued by the evil red-haired queen, who is also often naked.

The next stop is Sleeping Beauty's enchanted castle. This sleeping girl can only be awakened temporarily from her death-like slumber by a kiss, and only finally by sex. But because the travellers both turn out to be unable to have sex with her, the poor girl continues to wander through the fairytale forest, begging people and animals alike to help her in this regard or to have sex with her.

The third major story is that of Cinderella and her sisters. In addition to the main plot, the film is embellished with numerous elements of the fairy tale, such as witches, miraculous flowers and royal children transformed into animals.

Cast

Marie Liljedahl as Snow White
Eva Reuber-Staier as Cinderella
Ingrid van Bergen as Queen
Gaby Fuchs [de] as Sleeping Beauty
Kitty Kino [de] as Cinderella's 1st step-sister
Evelyn Dutree as Cinderella's 2nd step-sister
Walter Giller as Hans I
Peter Hohberger [de] as Heinz
Hugo Lindinger [de] as farmer
Isolde Stiegler as old woman
Roswitha Birkle as Jorinde
Milos Gvozdich as Prince
Stefan Seitz [de] as Joringel

Release

The film received a wide release in North America as Grimm's Fairy Tales for Adults. It made $1.1 million in the US and Canada.^[2]

The New York Times reviewed the film and said " It's as adult as almost any skin flick or striptease we've been getting in full measure these days."^[3]

References

^ Hake, Sabine (2009). Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim (eds.). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. New York, NY: Berghahn Books. p. 471. doi:10.2307/j.ctt1x76dm6. ISBN 978-1571816559. JSTOR j.ctt1x76dm6. S2CID 252868046.
^ Donahue, Suzanne Mary (1987). American film distribution : the changing marketplace. UMI Research Press. p. 298. ISBN 9780835717762. Please note figures are for rentals in US and Canada
^ Weiler., A. H. (25 March 1971). "Film: 'Grimm's Fairy Tales'". p. 46.

External links

The New Adventures of Snow White at IMDb

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[1] Hake, Sabine (2009). Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim (eds.). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. New York, NY: Berghahn Books. p. 471. doi:10.2307/j.ctt1x76dm6. ISBN 978-1571816559. JSTOR j.ctt1x76dm6. S2CID 252868046.

[2] Donahue, Suzanne Mary (1987). American film distribution : the changing marketplace. UMI Research Press. p. 298. ISBN 9780835717762. Please note figures are for rentals in US and Canada

[3] Weiler., A. H. (25 March 1971). "Film: 'Grimm's Fairy Tales'". p. 46.

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