Rumpelstiltskin and the Golden Secret
1960
73 minutes
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…
Top Cast
Siegfried Seibt
Rumpelstilzchen
Karin Lesch
Müllerstochter Marie
Karl-Heinz Rothin
Müller Kunz
Reinhard Michalke
Müllerbursche Hans
Nikolaus Paryla
König
Peter Dommisch
Der einfältige Nachbar
Bodo Mette
Schatzmeister
Hans-Hartmut Krüger
Bote des Königs
Franz Bonnet
Torwächter
Werner Pfeifer
Schreiber
Hans Flössel
Erster Bauer
Hans Feldner
Zweiter Bauer
Dieter Schindelhauer
Dritter Bauer