A brave prince must seek the fabled singing, ringing tree in order to win the heart of a beautiful princess.
Practical Effects
Bizarre creature designs that look like fever dreams made flesh.
Production
DEFA studio's surreal East German aesthetic — communist fairy tale fever.
Director
Francesco Stefani
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
BBC aired this as children's programming in the 1960s-80s, creating a generation of traumatized British viewers who still remember the giant fish.
The film was a DEFA production — East Germany's state studio — making it a rare communist bloc fairy tale that accidentally became capitalist childhood trauma.
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