Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Country

Czechoslovakia

Copyright

1933

Production year

1933

Runtime

46 min

Category

film

Genre

fairytale

Typology

featuretheatrical distributionmedium

Original title

Sněhurka a sedm trpaslíků

Czech title

Sněhurka a sedm trpaslíků

English title

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Synopsis

Princess Snow White is trying to win the favour of the queen. The queen is obsessed by her own beauty; she constantly looks into the magic mirror to see if she is all the time the most beautiful. When she discovers one day that Snow White is more beautiful than her she orders the master of the hunt to kill Snow White in the forest and bring her heart to her. The huntmaster, on seeing Snow White, takes pity and lets her go. The girl flees through the forest into a cave that is equipped with diminutive pieces of furniture for seven people. The dwarfs come in and invite Snow White to take refuge there with them. The magic mirror reveals Snow White's hiding place to the queen. In disguise the queen goes to Snow White's cave with a poisoned belt, but the dwarfs save her. When the queen learns her evil plan has failed she goes to the cave again, this time with a poisoned comb. Once again, Snow White is saved by the dwarfs. Finally the queen offers Snow White a poisoned apple. Here the dwarfs are unable to help her and it is Prince Jasmin who rescues her and then takes her back to his kingdom as his bride.

Crew and creators

Screenstory

Oldřich Kmínek

Director of Photography

Josef Bulánek

Production Designer

Štěpán Kopecký

Production Manager

Zdeněk Reimann

Cooperation

Antonín Frič (fotograf)

Production info

Original Title

Sněhurka a sedm trpaslíků

Czech Title

Sněhurka a sedm trpaslíků

English Title

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Category

film

Typology

featuretheatrical distribution

Genre

fairytale

Origin country

Czechoslovakia

Copyright

1933

Production Year

1933

Production specifications

date of censorship 1933

Premiere

premiere 1933 /suitable for youths/ (mimopražská kina)

Copyright Holders

Národní filmový archiv

Distribution

Chicago-Film

Technical info

Duration typology

medium length film

Duration in minutes

46 min

Original length in metres

1 300 meters

Distribution carrier

35mm

Aspect ratio

1:1,33, 1:1,19

Colour

black & white

Sound

silent, sound

Sound system/format

Tobis – Klang

Versions

Czech

Dialogue languages

Czech

Subtitles languages

without subtitles

Intertitles languages

Czech, German, without subtitles

Opening/End credits languages

Czech