The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962)

Director
Henry Levin; George Pal

Main cast
Laurence Harvey; Karlheinz Böhm; Claire Bloom; Walter Slezak; Barbara Eden

Genres
Fantasy, Family

Description
The Grimm brothers Wilhelm and Jacob, known for their literary works in the nineteenth century, have their lives dramatized. In the movie they write a family history for a duke which includes reenactments of three of their stories including "The Dancing Princess," "The Cobbler and the Elves" and "The Singing Bone."


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