To the other side of the fairy tale――
The Girl Without Hands
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Synopsis
Apple--watermill
A family of three, father, mother, and daughter, lives in a watermill. The water supply has dried up and they are struggling with daily food. One day, a demon appears to his father. He offers to give gold in exchange for ``what lies behind the water wheel.'' Believing it to be an apple tree, the father accepts the deal, and the gold flows into the dry river. Life changes.
However, what the devil wanted was what was climbing that apple tree - his only daughter. The father, who does not want to lose his wealth, is cornered by the devil. Her mother was eaten by wild dogs and died. A daughter cuts off both of her arms to save her father from a difficult situation. The daughter, fed up with her relationship with her father, leaves home. The father despairs and takes his own life.
Pear--Royal Palace
A girl who lost her arm goes through the forest in the rain. He tries to eat pears to survive, but he slips and falls into the river. There, waiting for her was a river spirit. The river spirit says that the pear belongs to the prince, and that it is fate for the girl to seek it. The prince accepts the girl as she steps into the royal palace, and takes her away. At the wedding, the girl gets a golden prosthetic arm. Enough food and love. A life without any inconvenience. I also received a child.
But then the war began. The prince goes to battle. And the devil acts behind the scenes. She rewrites the letter announcing the birth and makes the king believe that a monster baby has been born. Furthermore, he tricks the gardener into killing his mother as well. A girl runs away from the royal palace with a newborn baby in her arms. I put in my pocket a magical seed from the new world that was secretly given to me by the gardener.
Sweet orange and figs—somewhere far away
A girl who carries a baby and moves from place to place finds a safe place to live while being guided by a river spirit. He throws away his impractical golden prosthetic arm and uses his own arm to plow the land, plant seeds, and live a self-sufficient life. Meanwhile, the prince who lost the war returns to the castle. Realizing the devil's trick, he sets out on a journey again to find his wife and son.
Several years have passed. The girl became a mother, and her son grew up healthy. The prince continues his journey and eventually arrives at his wife's birthplace. What we see there is the figure of a man who appears to be his father who took his own life, a prosthetic arm that has washed up on the bank of a golden river, and both arms that have turned into skeletons. The prince gently swallows the piece of bone. The devil doesn't give up yet. As the prince is finally reunited with his beloved wife and son, the final battle begins for the soul of the girl who is now a mother. At the end of the day, where will the girl and her family end up?
Work information
staff
Director: Sebastian Rodenbach
Executive producer: Jean-Christophe Srajon
Original work: Brothers Grimm
Screenplay: Sebastian Rodenbach
Editing: Santi Minasi
sebastian rodenbach
Animation: Sebastian Rodenbach
Music: Olivier Melano
cast
Anais Demoustier
Jeremy Elkaim
philip rodenbach
sasha brudo
Olivier Brochu
Françoise Leblanc
Elina Levenson
"The Girl Without Hands"
Released nationwide including Eurospace from Saturday, August 18, 2018
© Les Films Sauvages – 2016
*Information as of August 2018 article publication.
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*Information as of May 9, 2019