Father Darlene Garr Widow Melody Carrillo Enchantress Nessa Last Edit Storyline Gretel and Hansel live in the countryside with their mother.

Taglines: Follow the crumbs. Edit Did You Know? Trivia At one point a song floats over the soundtrack: "My mother, she killed me, my father, he ate me, and my little sister, my bones she kept, what a pretty bird am I!

In it, a spiteful mother beheads her stepson and blames it on her daughter. She then cooks the corpse and feeds it to his husband, as the daughter picks up the bones from under the table and plants it under a juniper tree on the family's garden.

A small bird appears from the grave, singing the song in question while picking a pair of new shoes, a gold chain and a mill stone, and then carries them to the house.

The bird then gives the shoes to the daughter, the chain to the father and drops the stone on the stepmother, killing her. As she dies, the bird turns into a boy again and the story ends.

The film borrows some thematic elements this tale. Goofs The younger witch is shown with various tattoos of magical symbols on her body, particularly stars and the pentagram.

However, she also strangely has what looks like a Star of David on her arm, which symbolizes the Jewish faith and is not connected to sorcery.

Quotes Hansel : Tell me the fairy tale again. Gretel : It's too scary, you'll start seeing things that aren't there. Was this review helpful to you?

Yes No Report this. Add the first question. Language: English. Runtime: 87 min. Sound Mix: Dolby Digital. Color: Color.

Edit page. Everything That's New on Netflix in December. Clear your history. Master Stripp. In some later versions, the mother died from unknown causes, left the family, or remained with the husband at the end of the story.

Goldberg notes that although "there is no doubt that the Grimms' Hänsel und Gretel was pieced together, it was, however, pieced together from traditional elements," and its previous narrators themselves had been "piecing this little tale together with other traditional motifs for centuries.

The story is set in medieval Germany. Hansel and Gretel are the young children of a poor woodcutter. When a great famine settles over the land, the woodcutter's wife originally the children's mother but in revised editions she is their stepmother decides to take the children into the woods and leave them there to fend for themselves, so that she and her husband do not starve to death, as the children eat too much.

The woodcutter opposes the plan but finally, and reluctantly, submits to his wife's scheme. They are unaware that in the children's bedroom, Hansel and Gretel have overheard them.

After the parents have gone to bed, Hansel sneaks out of the house and gathers as many white pebbles as he can, then returns to his room, reassuring Gretel that God will not forsake them.

The next day, the family walk deep into the woods and Hansel lays a trail of white pebbles. After their parents abandon them, the children wait for the moon to rise and then they followed the pebbles back home.

They return home safely, much to their stepmother's rage. Once again provisions become scarce and the mother angrily orders her husband to take the children further into the woods and leave them there to die.

Hansel and Gretel attempt to gather more pebbles, but find the doors locked and find it impossible to escape.

The following morning, the family treks into the woods. Hansel takes a slice of bread and leaves a trail of bread crumbs for them to follow home.

However, after they are once again abandoned, they find that the birds have eaten the crumbs and they are lost in the woods. After days of wandering, they follow a beautiful white bird to a clearing in the woods, and discover a large cottage built of gingerbread , cakes , candy and with window panes of clear sugar.

Hungry and tired, the children begin to eat the rooftop of the house, when the door opens and a " very old woman " emerges and lures the children inside with the promise of soft beds and delicious food.

They enter without realizing that their hostess is a bloodthirsty witch who built the gingerbread house to waylay children to cook and eat them.

The next morning, the witch locks Hansel in an iron cage in the garden and forces Gretel into becoming a slave. The witch feeds Hansel regularly to fatten him up, but when she tries to touch him to see how fat he has become, Hansel cleverly offers a bone he found in the cage presumably a bone from the witch's previous captive and the witch feels it, thinking it to be his finger.

Due to her blindness , she is fooled into thinking Hansel is still too thin to eat. After weeks of this, the witch grows impatient and decides to eat Hansel, " be he fat or lean ".

She prepares the oven for Hansel, but decides she is hungry enough to eat Gretel, too. She coaxes Gretel to the open oven and asks her to lean over in front of it to see if the fire is hot enough.

Gretel, sensing the witch's intent, pretends she does not understand what the witch means. Infuriated, the witch demonstrates, and Gretel instantly shoves the witch into the hot oven, slams and bolts the door shut, and leaves " The ungodly witch to be burned in ashes ".

Gretel frees Hansel from the cage and the pair discover a vase full of treasure , including precious stones.

Putting the jewels into their clothing, the children set off for home. A swan ferries them across an expanse of water, and at home they find only their father; his wife died from some unknown cause.

Their father had spent all his days lamenting the loss of his children, and is delighted to see them safe and sound.

With the witch's wealth , they all live happily ever after. Folklorists Iona and Peter Opie indicate that "Hansel and Gretel" belongs to a group of European tales especially popular in the Baltic regions, about children outwitting ogres into whose hands they have involuntarily fallen.

In particular, Gretel's pretense of not understanding how to test the oven "Show Me How" is characteristic of A, although it also appears traditionally in other sub-types of ATU The cleverest of the girls, Finette, initially manages to bring them home with a trail of thread, then a trail of ashes, but her peas are eaten by pigeons during the third journey.

The little girls then go to the mansion of a hag , who lives with her husband the ogre. Finette heats the oven and asks the ogre to test it with his tongue, so that he falls in and is incinerated.

Thereafter, Finette cuts off the hag's head. The sisters remain in the ogre's house, and the rest of the tale relates the story of " Cinderella ".

In the Russian Vasilisa the Beautiful , the stepmother likewise sends her hated stepdaughter into the forest to borrow a light from her sister, who turns out to be Baba Yaga , a cannibalistic witch.

Besides highlighting the endangerment of children as well as their own cleverness , the tales have in common a preoccupation with eating and with hurting children: The mother or stepmother wants to avoid hunger, and the witch lures children to eat her house of candy so that she can then eat them.

In a variant from Flanders , The Sugar-Candy House , siblings Jan and Jannette get lost in the woods and sight a hut made of confectionary in the distance.

When they approach, a giant wolf named Garon jumps out of the window and chases them to a river bank. Sister and brother ask a pair of ducks to help them cross the river and escape the wolf.

Garon threatened the ducks to carry him over, to no avail; he then tries to cross by swimming. He sinks and surfaces three times, but disappears in the water in the fourth try.

In a Swedish fairy tale, La Cabane au Toit de Fromage "The Hut with the Roof made of Cheese" , the brother is the hero who deceives the witch and locks her up in the oven.

Structural comparisons can also be made with other tales of ATU type "The Children and the Ogre" , which is not a simple fairy tale type but rather a "folktale complex with interconnected subdivisions" depicting a child or children falling under the power of an ogre, then escaping by their clever tricks.

Horned Witch Joanna Kulig Red Haired Witch Thomas Mann Ben Peter Stormare Jackson Rainer Bock Mayor Engleman Thomas Scharff Father Kathrin Kühnel Adrianna Cedric Eich Edit Storyline The siblings Hansel and Gretel are left alone in the woods by their father and captured by a dark witch in a candy house.

Taglines: What ever became of Hansel and Gretel? Edit Did You Know? Goofs When Hansel and Gretel first arrive at the candy witch's lair as children, Gretel pulls off the end of one of the icing icicles to eat it.

In the next few shots, the icicle is shown as intact when it should have a blunted end. Quotes Gretel : Wow, this is amazing.

And, uh, weird. Hansel : It's a little creepy. Gretel : You really keep all this stuff? Hansel : [ trying to end the conversation ] All right, well Ben : I just have SO many questions, do you mind?

Hansel : [ still trying to end the conversation ] You know, we have Gretel : Oh no, no no no, you go ahead. Gretel : [ innocently ] Hansel?

Crazy Credits The background of the ending credits shows the weapons used then fire, smoke and ashes flying around. Alternate Versions Aside from more language, gore, sexual content, and a few extra lines, the extended version features a few extra scenes.

They include scenes showing witches forcing children to eat frogs as part of their potion. The bar scene also shows Hansel awkwardly approaching a woman and getting rebuffed.

The horned witch, while trying to be interrogated, reveals that she can also communicate with the red-haired witch when she needs help.

The morning after the village attack, Sheriff Berringer blames the Mayor for the attack and kills him. The scene where the Sheriff and his goons attack Gretel is extended, is cut in between the scene where Mina heals Hansel, and shows that the men plan to rape her right before Edward kills them.

Right after Hansel and Gretel behead Muriel, Ben despite being a big fan of the siblings killing witches throws up when he sees the decapitated head.

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