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"Bluebeard" is the title and subject of the 16th episode of the Japanese TV series Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics (1988), as part of its "Grimm Masterpiece Theater" season. The character design for Bluebeard strongly resembles the English King Henry VIII. Bluebeard is featured in Sandra the Fairytale Detective (2009) as the villain in the episode ...
Charles Perrault's fairy tale "Bluebeard" had previously been adapted for film in 1897, in a short version for the Lumière Brothers' studio. Méliès may have known and remembered this film in preparing his elaborate ten-scene version, which adds several elements characteristic of his films, including the appearances of a good Fairy and the Devil.
Sandra Occhiaperti (voiced by Jules de Jongh) is a 10-year-old girl who is a fairy tale detective. She also takes statements from the victims. Fo the Elf (voiced by Dan Russell) is Sandra's partner, a 508-year-old elf with fairy wings. Whenever there is a case that needs to be solved, he takes Sandra to the fairy tale world by casting a magic ...
Bluebeard is a 1972 film written and directed by Edward Dmytryk and starring Richard Burton, Raquel Welch, Joey Heatherton, and Sybil Danning.. The film's plot is very loosely based on the French folktale of a nobleman whose latest wife grows curious when he tells her she may enter any room in his castle but one.
J. Hoberman of The Village Voice gave the film a positive review, writing "Psychologically rich, unobtrusively minimalist, at once admirably straightforward and slyly comic, Catherine Breillat’s Bluebeard is a lucid retelling and simultaneous explanation of Charles Perrault’s nastiest, most un-Disneyfiable nursery story."
The tale tells the story of a wealthy man in the habit of murdering his wives and the attempts of the present one to avoid the fate of her predecessors. Pages in category "Films based on Bluebeard" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.
The White Dove is a French fairy tale collected by Gaston Maugard in Contes des Pyrénées. [1] It is Aarne-Thompson type 312, [2] and an oral variant of the type, which is best known by the literary tale, Bluebeard. [3]
They also abound in historical references and surreal juxtapositions. One story involves a World War I Secret Police investigator, a trio of German warplanes, and the artist Paul Klee. Another is a parodic rewriting of the fairy-tale Bluebeard, perhaps inspired by Angela Carter's story "The Bloody Chamber." Yet another consists of a single ...