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Courtesy of Primrose Productions |
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| | | 35mm, black and white, 10 min |
| | | Director | Lotte Reiniger | | Production Company | Primrose Productions | | Music | Freddie Phillips |
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The classic fairy story: the fairy who is not invited to the Princess's christening party curses her to die from pricking her finger on a spindle. A good fairy commutes the sentence to 100 year's sleep, to be broken by a kiss. Show full synopsis
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With its slightly plodding pacing and voice-over, this is not Reiniger at her best, but it is a watchable and attractive film. Reiniger has fun animating the thorns that envelop the sleepers. A lack of close-ups gives this film a slightly chilly sense of distance.
Ruth Lingford *This film is included in the BFI DVD compilation Lotte Reiniger: The Fairy Tale Films.
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Complete film (10:01)
