News from Fairy Tale Land! Eight years ago, when I was researching my final project for my MA, I wrote a post on my research blog, quill and qwerty, on the iconic film Three Hazelnuts for Cinderella. It’s a German-Czech production from 1973 that has achieved near-cult status in Germany, and has influenced more than one “Cinderella” movie since then (including the 1998 Ever After and the wonderful 2015 live-action version). At the time, I was bemoaning the fact that there didn’t seem to be an English version of this so very lovely movie. Well, a couple of years ago a reader commented that an English version did exist; she’d watched it on TV in the 70s – and today, she posted the link to it on Youtube!
The quality of the recording isn’t the greatest, and it’s a slightly abridged version (1 hr as opposed to the 1 1/2 hrs of the original), but that doesn’t matter – it’s Three Nuts for Cinderella in English! So now you, too, can go watch it and know what it was that I’ve been raving about all that time. Thank you, Colleen! (Note, the beginning and end of the film are in the original Czech; the English dub starts at 6:34.)
So if you want to indulge in some shameless fairy tale enjoyment, hie thee to a Youtube channel, kick back and watch Three Nuts for Cinderella. You won’t be sorry.
