Mischief in Wonderland

Mischief in Wonderland
Aufruhr im Schlaraffenland
Directed by Otto Meyer
Produced by Alfred Förster
Written by Inka Köhler-Rechnitz
Starring Alexander Engel
Werner Krüger
Sabine Sesselmann
Cordula Trantow
Alexa von Porembsky
Harry Wüstenhagen
Music by Norbert Schultze
Cinematography Gerhard Huttula
Edited by Annelies Kriegar
Distributed by Förster Film (GER)
Paramount Pictures (USA)
Release date
  • 15 September 1957 (1957-09-15)
Running time
 80 minutes
Country Germany
Language German

Mischief in Wonderland (German: Aufruhr im Schlaraffenland) is a 1957 German fantasy film directed by Otto Meyer, loosely based on the story Schlaraffenland by poet Hans Sachs and a satire on the German Wirtschaftswunder.[1] The film was released in the United States by K. Gordon Murray. It is also known as Riot in Cockaigne and Scandal in Fairyland.

Plot

The king of Irgendwo is beset by worries: The food stocks are empty and he has no money. The only way out, proposed by his advisers Schnorr and Astropolex, to marry off his young daughter to the Sultan of Persipanien, fails: The princess denied the marriage and the sultan wants a rich wife.

One night during a thunderstorm, a young woman arrives at the castle. The king lets her in and gives her the last milk ration. She turns out to be a fairy who now wants to thank him: He receives a magic button with which he can ask for any food he wants. Soon the inhabitants of the little kingdom are living in a wonderland. From the village fountain now gushes wine and lemonade, the fountain itself is made of marzipan and the fences are made of chocolate. To avoid jeopardizing the splendor, a rice pudding mountain is built around the kingdom.

But soon people, especially children, realize there are disadvantages. All the people are fat and the school is closed due to "laziness". They ask the princess for help, as she is the only person who has avoided eating too much. But the adults got used to the new way of life, so a riot breaks out in the land of milk and honey ...

Cast

References

  1. ↑ "Aufruhr im Schlaraffenland". Cinema.de. Retrieved 5 July 2015.
  2. ↑ "Aufruhr im Schlaraffenland 1957". maerchenfilm.pytalhost.com. Retrieved 5 September 2015.
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