I love the Singing Ringing Tree
I wonder why something so slow-paced and with very little dialogue can be so compelling. I just think that it is beautiful and should be viewed by all.
It scared the hell out of children in the Uk cause they used to show it at Winter, at 6 O'clock and it scared them for some reason.
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Yes they used to show it very early in the morning's in a episode format.It seemed to go on forever.I used to hate it when I was five years old, but I bought the Dvd recently and it is a beautifull film.If you get the Dvd on the extras it has an interview with the woman who played the beautifull princess, which is nice touch.
shareI watched this in the early sixties and it scared me for years, especially the malevolent dwarf. Whenever you find someone else who saw it, they have the same feelings. I watched it recently and was very nervous putting it in the DVD player.Actually watching it was okay and in a way I got 'closure' after 30 years. Interestingly, I have lent it to other 40 year olds who have also watched it with the same sense of forboding. Actually it is beautiful but I will never show it to my children!!!
shareIn some ways the story is very much like Beauty and the Beast.That story used to scare me when I was a child.Hansel and Gretel was kind of frightening too.It's funny though when I watched the Singing Ringing Tree after all those years , in a way it wasn't exactly as I remembered it.Maybe it was something to do with my perception of it as a child or maybe I only remembered little bits of it and my imagination filled in the blanks.
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I think you are right tommyuk.
Like most people, I found the dwarf the scariest thing, and he still gives me major creeps now. But I was scared of the prince/bear as a child too, but now of course, he is just a man in a bear suit with a furry face.
All these years on, with the amazing special effects, they have yet to make something that terrifies children as much as that midget. Him and the green witch from the Wizard of Oz. And the Childcatcher from Chitty Chitty. Nightmare City.
Just shows you, its people that are the scariest. Not made up creatures!
I can´t believe this film made it to the UK. How come? Was it dubbed into English?
it´s very famous in East Germany (former GDR) but in West Germany hardly anyone knows it. Yes, the dwarf is pretty famous for being a childhood nightmare.
my mum told me that as a child she was scared of little people /midgets (what´s the p.c. term these days?) only because of this film.
Yes it was dubbed as far as I can remember. Another gem from my childhood was The Flashing Blade, a Spanish swashbuckler serial shown(dubbed of course) on Saturday morning kids t.v
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Yep, seen it on DVD, theres the option of over dubs or german with subtitles. Its amazing, I love it.
shareWhen this was shown back in the 60's on BBC television as part of the 'Tales from Europe' series it wasn't dubbed. It was in the original German (the dialogue would be faded down so that the English narration could be told over the top)
shareFrench (although Don Alonzo, the baddie is a Spaniard in the story. Originally called Le Chevalier Tempête.
shareI think this production caused some major childhood nightmares in the mid-60s! I too was haunted for years by the fear caused by this film/series, especially the notorious evil dwarf! Years later, my Mum told me that the final episode of 'TSRT' had absolutely terrified me!
Oddly enough, at the time, I found the beautiful Princess (Christel Bodenstein) more attractive when she had been transformed into an allegedly 'hideous' version of herself by the Dwarf - An external manifestation of her inner 'ugliness'. Did anyone else find that? Maybe it's because her "ugly" hair was more similar to the then-fashionable 60s idea of an attractive hairstyle, and was thus more acceptable to young viewers like myself!