The Glassblower's Children

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01/08/2010 This is a very good movie,like it a lot.This Swedish-Norwegian-Danish children's film is an adaptation of the popular 1964 children's book by Maria Gripe, a classic translated into more than 20 languages. Author Gripe refused to allow a film version until she saw Gronos' adaptation of her novel Agnes Cecilia. Set in the 19th Century, the tale has Snow Queen overtones as the spoiled woman of a royal family wants children for the cold corridors of her vast, sterile castle. After her husband kidnaps the glassblower's children, they are turned into amnesiacs and forced to live in the castle, where they are tortured and abused by their tutor, a weird witch. Production design by Jan Olof Agren contrasts the two settings -- the warmth and art of the glassblower's realistic world as opposed to the heightened sense of dread lurking throughout the mythical and stylized castle. Shown at the 1998 Gothenburg Film Festival. See more 01/01/2010 amazing:D<3 Based on the novel by Maria Gripe, this is the story of two children, Klas and Klara, growing up in the poor Swedish countryside of the mid-19th century. Their father Albert is a glass-blower, famous for his beautiful vases, but still unable to earn enough money for his wife Sofia and the children. See more 03/30/2008 A dark fary-tale, I did not see the hole thing until just a few years ago, because it really scared me. See more 11/25/2007 Way too childish for my taste. See more 11/15/2007 Oh no, not my kind of movie. But I did see all of it. See more 10/20/2007 så trogen Gripes magi som något kan bli. See more Read all reviews

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