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Rumpelstiltskin and the Golden Secret (1960)

Rumpelstiltskin and the Golden Secret (1960)

Fantasy Family
Release Date: 1960, July 29
Directors: Christoph Engel, Erwin Anders
Countries: East Germany
Production: DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme
Cast: Karin Lesch, Nikolaus Paryla, Peter Dommisch, Reinhard Michalke, Werner Pfeifer, Siegfried Seibt, Hans Feldner, Hans-Hartmut Krüger, Franz Bonnet, Hans Flössel, Dieter Schindelhauer, Karl-Heinz Rothin

Overview:

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…