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A series of five stories: "Miserly Barka" revolves around the efforts of various persons to dispose of the body of a miserly old woman; "When the Oak Leaves Fall" tells of how a drunken peasant makes a deal with the devil, whom that man subsequently outwits; "Fearless Franta" relates how the father of a young man who is afraid of nothing arranges for his son to spend a night in a tavern where the spirits of the dead gather to gamble and cavort; "A Dream Fulfilled" is about an elderly farmer who squanders his money playing the lottery, and "Fimfarum" centers on a blacksmith with a scheming, unfaithful wife who is forced to perform a variety of impossible tasks. (Verleiher-Text)
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Mein liebstes Märchenbuch in einem unglaublichen Animationsfilm, der die Poesie von Werichs Worten mit unverwechselbaren Klimt-Bildkreationen ergänzt. Neben der unwiederholbaren Verspieltheit und dem Witz des Originals wird der Zuschauer also mit einer Orgie visuellen Humors verwöhnt. Das Einzige, was mir nicht gefällt, sind die Intermezzi mit der Stimme von Ota Jirák, die nicht ins Gesamtkonzept passen. Ansonsten aber gehört das animierte Fimfárum in die gleiche Ruhmeshalle wie das geschriebene "Fimfárum“. Ein nettes Gegengewicht zu Walt Disneys bunten Halbfabrikaten.
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The idea of making a film of Fimfárum is interesting. And putting the film into wide cinema distribution is commendable. However, the adaptation of fairy tales seems clumsy to me, and it's a shame that the quality of individual stories is so different. Sometimes it even concerns individual scenes. For example, the idea and processing of the introduction "When the Leaves Are Falling from the Oak" are well done, but then suddenly there is the boring and strangely animated Franta Nebojsa. And it's really a shame because there is a lot of potential in Werich's humor.
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Greedy Barbara (1987), Wait Until the Oak Loses Its Leaves (1991) and Frankie Courage (2002) are my favorite stories, while the rest is rather pleasant filler. The Werich/Jirák variation is not offensive, so conceptually Fimfarum is acceptable in film.
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When the movie "Fimfárum" was supposed to come to the cinemas, it was like a revelation. Well, the movie had been announced in advance, but still, when was the last time a proper puppet film was made here? Jiří Trnka would maybe be sad that only people like Švankmajer or Aurel Klimt follow in his footsteps, who also contributed to the film "Fimfárum Jana Wericha". This is a special work that simply had to attract attention. Several positive factors are combined here. The first one is the source material written by Jan Werich. It has been 52 years since the book was published, but its themes are still relevant and the meaning of some fairy tales is even deeper nowadays. They are not traditional fairy tales and some of them just captivate you with their point and the whole story. The ones that are in the first movie are truly quite dark, for example, "Franta Nebojsa" (responsible by Klimt), which is a story that sets the right atmosphere with its processing alone. The wooden puppets and their appearance are strangely distorted, so the viewer immediately realizes that something is not right. No, these are not fairy tales for children. Not because they would be vulgar, there was violence or nudity, it's simply because they are not meant for children. Although, on the other hand, maybe this is exactly what the true fairy tales are like. A bit scary, unkind, and clever. More: http://www.filmovy-denik.cz/2012/07/prosime-pretocte-fimfarum-1-2-zivot.html
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