The Czechoslovak-East German Co-production Tři oříšky pro
Popelku/Drei Haselnüsse für Aschenbrödel/Three Wishes for
Cinderella : A Transnational Tale

C 2017

The Czechoslovak-East German Co-production Tři oříšky pro Popelku/Drei Haselnüsse für Aschenbrödel/Three Wishes for Cinderella : A Transnational Tale

SKOPAL, Pavel

Basic information

Original name

The Czechoslovak-East German Co-production Tři oříšky pro Popelku/Drei Haselnüsse für Aschenbrödel/Three Wishes for Cinderella : A Transnational Tale

Authors

SKOPAL, Pavel (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Londýn, Popular Cinemas in East Central Europe : Film Cultures and Histories, p. 184-197, 14 pp. International Library of the Moving Image, 17, 2017

Publisher

I. B. Tauris

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Kapitola resp. kapitoly v odborné knize

Field of Study

60405 Studies on Film, Radio and Television

Country of publisher

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Publication form

printed version "print"

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14210/17:00097989

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

ISBN

978-1-78453-397-7

Keywords in English

co-productions; transnational cinema; Barrandov; DEFA; fairy-tale; children cinema

Abstract

V originále

Although fairy-tales were among the most popular genres both in the GDR and in Czechoslovakia, there was no guarantee that Three Nuts for Cinderella would achieve equal success in both countries. Yet, despite the differences in the respective concepts of filmmaking for children this is exactly what happened. The smooth and successful implementation of the co-production traced in this paper was conditioned by the East German studio’s appreciation of the Czechoslovak approach to the genre, as well as by DEFA’s fondness for Barrandov’s scriptwriters and directors. The exceptionally successful co-production Three Nuts for Cinderella highlights some of the advantages as well as certain pitfalls of those international projects established between film studios from two Soviet bloc countries that focused on popular genre production. Rather than the product of a magic formula for a popular fairy-tale genre film, the success of Three Nuts for Cinderella was a result of a pragmatic alliance that united two production facilities under a singular creative concept built around a transnational story.

Links

MUNI/A/1077/2016, interní kód MU

Name: Kontinuita a změna v dějinách kinematografie

Investor: Masaryk University, Category A

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Citovat

SKOPAL, Pavel. The Czechoslovak-East German Co-production Tři oříšky pro Popelku/Drei Haselnüsse für Aschenbrödel/Three Wishes for Cinderella : A Transnational Tale. In Ostrowska, Dorota; Pitassio, Francesco; Varga, Zsuzsanna. Popular Cinemas in East Central Europe : Film Cultures and Histories. Londýn: I. B. Tauris, 2017, p. 184-197. International Library of the Moving Image, 17. ISBN 978-1-78453-397-7.

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SKOPAL, Pavel. The Czechoslovak-East German Co-production Tři oříšky pro Popelku/Drei Haselnüsse für Aschenbrödel/Three Wishes for Cinderella : A Transnational Tale. In Ostrowska, Dorota; Pitassio, Francesco; Varga, Zsuzsanna. \textit{Popular Cinemas in East Central Europe : Film Cultures and Histories}. Londýn: I. B. Tauris, 2017, p.~184-197. International Library of the Moving Image, 17. ISBN~978-1-78453-397-7.

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