FlorianSchirner
I was raised with this film as long I can remember. I remember first seeing it at age 6 visiting my grandmother. Since she lived near the border to east Germany, we could watch east German TV at her home. I instantly fell in love with this fairy tale. Later the movie became a regular Christmas staple on German television so I could see it all over and over. Growing up i admit to have fallen in love with the actress of Cinderella, as every boy who watched this movie would admit to also. I never found any big flaw in this movie. Maybe the special effects are not up to date to modern 50+ million dollar productions, but you have to consider that it was created in 1973 and in Czechoslovakia to boot. The acting is great in every aspect, maybe a bit overdone sometimes but better then in many American blockbusters. The conversion of the fairytale is not based totally on the Grimm's tale Cinderella, but more on the regional bohemian version. To that it clings very good. And what I really love are the buildings and landscapes....they are really authentic, something I miss in fairy tale movies shot in America, but they clearly don't have the ages-old castles and mansions.I give this movie a 10 out of 10 which I don't do lightly. Every time I watch this masterpiece it brings back my youth, more than any other movie.
Walter
I have thought about this movie now and then and always wondered what it was called. I remember watching it one Christmas and today, I was emailing my sister about a movie we saw on TV when we were kids and I mentioned this one. It took me a few tries but I finally did a search with the right words. Even though I only saw it once, I remember liking it so much. The nuts, the hunt, but I don't remember who brought her the nuts. I remember her asking for "the first thing that hits you on the nose". I was probably around 8 or 9 at the time, but it's a clear memory. I wish I could see this movie again. I bet it would be hard to find.
bettina84
In Norway, Germany, Switzerland, Slovakia and the Czech republic this movie is shown every Christmas eve, and for many people (myself included) it won't be Christmas without it. The channel tried to take the movie of the program one year because it's such an old film, but there was a massive upheaval and luckily it was stopped and Christmas was saved and it has been showed ever since. It is a sweet Cinderella story, told in a different way then the classical tale we're used to. The movie is extremely charming and beautifully made, although without any Hollywood style special effects. Unfortunately this movie has suffered the fate of most non-English movies in the US and have been more or less completely overlooked.
breakdownbrothers
BEWARE! This film could very much f..k up your life. You think I might be exaggerating - I don't! Listen and remember. There was a boy, let's say someone I knew. He lived in East Germany, where life in the eighties felt like the sixties had never ended, short skirts, long hair, everybody listened to forbidden music and watched consumer instructions and Hollywood serials coming from the dark territory behind the Western border. In this magic time, when bread was so cheap you could easily build a house with it, in a land, where cars where made out of plastic and pulp and people out of silence, for a young human being TV was the only connection to the real world, to the real people living elsewhere. When he was young, this boy watched everything he could, he loved the tube with all of his heart. But when he saw for the first time the fairy-tale of Cinderella, he was lost. He had fallen for Cinderella head over heels, he had never seen something so beautiful and honest in all of his life. Until the age of fourteen he had seen the film at least 20 times, which was very often because there were no videotapes or VCRs in East Germany. He had a crush on Libuse Safrankova and he was never to be cured. No woman in the whole world could come close to her. Nothing could come close to her, including him. For all of his life he was unable to fall in love or have a relationship. There simply was no one who could compete with her in his heart. And then, one day, he saw a picture of her. Libuse, laying in bed together with a man, in a movie, the title I can't remember. Let's say as much as this: I think you know what happened his mother found him - and I have no intention to talk about the details. As for "Three Nuts for Cinderella": I have no idea how something so beautiful could have been made in East Germany. I just don't get it. Of course, there were other good fairy-tale movies, but nothing anywhere comparable with this. If I have to rank this, I'd rather give it a 0. Keep your hands off this film, watch Star Wars or Walt Disney, you will be happier in the end.
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