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Nine Lives

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A season of film biographies of artists and musicians. The Brothers Grimm
This Omnibus film looks, at the magical world of the classic fairy tales, and at the lives of those strange brothers who helped to preserve them.
In this dramatised film, scenes from these Germanic stories are reconstructed. We discover what extra measures were adopted when the Prince failed to wake Sleeping Beauty with a kiss; why Cinderella's slipper was originally made of fur; what revenge the traditional story-tellers took on their own version of Shylock.
The Brothers Grimm saw it as their life's work to preserve these stories before they vanished for ever.
Film editor Angus NEWTON
Written and directed by DAVID WHEATLEY

Contributors

Editor:
Angus Newton
Directed By:
David Wheatley
Dorothea Grimm:
Judy Cornwell
Jacob Grimm:
David Collings
Wilhelm Grimm:
Ian Marter
Dorothea:
Linda Kennedy
Young Jacob:
Gary Carp
Young Wilhelm:
Garth Bardsley
Source: Radio Times

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