{"product_id":"defa-fairy-tale-films-snow-white-little-red-riding-hood-the-devils-three-golden-hairs-2-more-blu-ray","title":"DEFA Fairy Tale Films: Snow White, Little Red Riding Hood, The Devil's Three Golden Hairs \u0026 2 More (Blu-ray) PREORDER","description":"\u003ch1\u003eA 5-film set of wildly surreal and colorful fantasy \u0026amp; fairy tale films from East Germany's DEFA Studios from the 1960s to 1970s\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe wildly surreal, music- and color-saturated world of fairy tale films or Märchenfilme from East Germany's DEFA Studios are one of the great, still-overlooked subgenres in world fantasy filmmaking.   Part Sid \u0026amp; Marty Krofft Saturday morning kiddie psychedelia, part sturdy Socialist moralizing, the Märchenfilme were one of DEFA's most popular genres from the 1950s to 1970s.  \u003cbr\u003eSNOW WHITE (SCHNEEWITTCHEN) - 1961, dir. Gottfried Kolditz.  This lovely live-action version of the classic Bros. Grimm tale is in many ways the prototypical DEFA fairy tale film, with Doris Weikow radiating storybook charm as Snow White.\u003cbr\u003eLITTLE RED RIDING HOOD (ROTKÄPPCHEN) - 1962, 72 min., dir. Götz Friedrich.  Red Riding Hood (Blanche Kommerell) faces off against some of the mangiest and most terrifying forest creatures ever conceived, including The Big Bad Wolf (Werner Dissel) -- basically an American Werewolf in East Germany.  Sure to give your 6-year old self nightmares for life.\u003cbr\u003eMOTHER HULDA (FRAU HOLLE) - 1963, 57 min., dir. Gottfried Kolditz.  Lazy daughter Pechmarie (Katharina Lind) and hardworking stepdaughter Goldmarie (Karin Ugowski vie for the approval of magical Frau Holle, who lives in an insanely artificial Pee Wee's Playhouse-meets-Lidsville underground world.\u003cbr\u003eTHE DEVIL'S THREE GOLDEN HAIRS (WER REIßT DENN GLEICH VOR'M TEUFEL AUS)  - 1977, 92 min., dir. Egon Schlegel.  Crazy fantasy\/comedy about a clumsy young man (Hans-Joachim Frank), who is forced to rob three hairs from the Devil (Dieter Franke). The Devil's psychedelic lair with shrunken heads and gruesome Halloween décor must be seen to be believed.\u003cbr\u003eSNOW WHITE AND ROSE RED (SCHNEEWEIßCHEN UND ROSENROT) - 1979, 70 min., dir. Siegfried Hartmann.  Excellent fantasy \/ fairy tale about peasant girls Snow White (Julie Juristová) and Rose-Red (Katrin Martin) trying to outwit an enraged dwarf (Hans-Peter Minetti) guarding a jewel-filled mine. 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