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  • Francesco Stefani – Das singende, klingende Bäumchen AKA The Singing, Ringing Tree (1957)

    1951-1960ClassicsFantasyFrancesco StefaniGermany

    Review by EastGermanCinema.com:
    Many Britons of a certain age share a collective memory so firmly etched in their psyches that the very mention of it brings back childhood nightmares. In 1964, BBC television serialized a film about a haughty princess, a prince that turns into a bear, a giant goldfish, and a really, really evil dwarf. So powerful are the memories of this film, that thirty-eight years later BBC Radio 4 did a program on the film’s effect on an entire generation. The film was called The Singing Ringing Tree, and none of those children could have known that they were watching a film that was the product of East Germany.Read More »

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