HÄNSEL AND GRETEL

Hänsel and Gretel live with their parents in a simple house next to a large forest. One day, they get lost in the forest, and stumble across a gingerbread cottage owned by an evil witch.

One of several fairy tale films that animation pioneer Lotte Reiniger made with her husband Carl Koch for Primrose Productions, Hänsel and Gretel tones down the violence of the Brothers’ Grimm original story, so soon after the Holocaust. An enchanting confrontation with evil in a magical forest.