Rumpelstiltskin and the Golden Secret

Rumpelstiltskin and the Golden Secret (1960) is a fantasy, family film directed by Christoph Engel, Erwin Anders rated 5.4/10.

East German adaptation of Grimm‘s fairy tale "Rumpelstiltskin". A boastful miller pretends that his daughter Marie can spin straw into gold, and so she is locked into a room full of straw and ordered to spin it into gold by the next morning. A little man appears and offers his help in exchange for Marie's necklace. The greedy treasurer makes Marie spin twice more until the only thing she has left to give the little man is the promise of her first-born child…

Cast

Siegfried Seibt

Rumpelstilzchen

Karin Lesch

Müllerstochter Marie

Karl-Heinz Rothin

Müller Kunz

Reinhard Michalke

Müllerbursche Hans

Nikolaus Paryla

König

Peter Dommisch

Der einfältige Nachbar

Bodo Mette

Schatzmeister

Hans-Hartmut Krüger

Bote des Königs

Franz Bonnet

Torwächter

Werner Pfeifer

Schreiber

Hans Flössel

Erster Bauer

Hans Feldner

Zweiter Bauer