Overview

The Grimm brothers Wilhelm and Jacob, known for their literary works in the nineteenth century, have their lives dramatized. Wilhelm fights to write something entertaining amongst the sea of dry, non-fiction books they write and he sets about collecting oral-tradition fairy tales to put into print. Their life story is countered with reenactments of three of their stories including "The Dancing Princess," "The Cobbler and the Elves" and "The Singing Bone."

Genres

Cast

Laurence Harvey

Wilhelm Grimm / Cobbler (segment "The Cobbler and the Elves")

Karlheinz Böhm

Jacob Grimm

Claire Bloom

Dorothea Grimm

Walter Slezak

Stossel

Barbara Eden

Greta Heinrich

Oskar Homolka

The Duke ('The Dream')

Arnold Stang

Rumpelstiltskin

Martita Hunt

Anna Richter

Betty Garde

Miss Bettenhausen

Bryan Russell

Friedrich Grimm

Ian Wolfe

Gruber

Tammy Marihugh

Pauline Grimm