germany

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germany

Rapunzel

1982
Retells the tale of the beautiful girl imprisoned in a lonely tower by a witch.

The golden goose

1978
Retells the tale of the golden goose that caused the king's unhappy daughter to laugh.

The Bremen town musicians

a retelling of the Grimms' fairy tale
2004
While on their way to Bremen, four aging animals who are no longer of any use to their masters find a new home after outwitting a gang of robbers.

The cookie house

1978
A poor woodcutter's two children, lost in the woods, come upon a gingerbread house inhabited by a wicked witch.

Katarina Witt

1992
A biography of the German ice skater who won the figure skating gold medal in two successive Olympic competitions.

Four good friends

1981
A retelling of the Grimm fairy tale in which four animal friends, in search of a place to live, scare robbers from a house in the forest and decide to live together.

Mercedes and the Chocolate Pilot

a true story of the Berlin airlift and the candy that dropped from the sky
2002
The true story of a young German girl, Mercedes Simon, and of the American pilot, Gail Halvorsen, who shared hope and joy with the children of West Berlin by dropping candy-filled parachutes during the Airlift.

Snow White and the seven dwarfs

1938
A princess eludes the schemes of her wicked stepmother when she wanders into the home of seven dwarfs.

Karl Marx

a nineteenth-century life
2013
Explores the life of Prussian philosopher Karl Marx, discussing his personal, political, and intellectual beliefs.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

2012
A biography of Dietrick Bonhoeffer, a German minister, discussing his childhood and education, his position in the Nazi Germany's military intelligence agency working as double agent, his complicity in multiple assassination attempts, and his eventual imprisonment and execution.

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