I am now 29 and I am trying to find this movie. When I was about 7 my parents rented an animated cartoon movie for my sister and I. We used to rent videos from a little momma and pappa location. Anyways I loved this movie and I wanted to try to find it now. From what I remember there is a girl who has 5 brothers and sisters. (at least I think its 5). Some how a witch turns her siblings into swans (or some large white bird). Well this girl is not to speak a word or anything and if she does I think her siblings will remail birds forever. Well this girl sits in a cell and she knitts sweaters for her siblings out of some material. Okay at some point in this movie the witch ties up the girl to a post and pokes her feet with needles of some sort. The girl never screams...she wants to but does not. Anyways at the end of the movie the girl finishes knitting these sweaters and her bird siblings fly and put them on and then turn back into humans.
2007-09-14 18:26:36 · 5 answers · asked by { Me } 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
I wish I could remember more but it was so long ago. If anyone has seen this movie please let me know the name. If you remember this animated cartoon movie I would like to know that I am not the only one who saw it. Thanks to all that respond with helping answers.
2007-09-14 18:28:08 · update #1
MUSTLOVEDOGS and CLAUDIACAKES sound right. But Looking at the pics of the movie just looks different. Does anyone know if this movie was updated or redone? I am going to rent this movie to double check. I appreciate your help. Does anyone know if there is a site online that I can view this movie?
2007-09-14 19:18:52 · update #2
I'm not sure if this is it, but your description sounded so familiar of this one that I remembered. Two Russian films were released when I was a little girl; I still remember the fabulous animation and that I thought they were better than Walt Disney. One was The Snow Queen; the other, The Wild Swans.
Many years later, I caught part of The Snow Queen on Sunday morning TV; the voices had been redubbed, and the film was hosted by Mikhail Baryshnikov. The animation is as remarkable as I remember. I can't swear this is what you're looking for, but I'll place a link to where you can find these two films on one DVD. I think they've been dubbed again, likely in keeping with changing generations.
The Wild Swans (1962)
[edit] Story overview
Far away from here there once lived a king who had eleven sons and one daughter, Elisa. The children were happy until the king married a wicked queen who sent Elisa away and turned her brothers into wild swans.
When Elisa turned fifteen she went in search of her brothers. She reached the ocean and here she saw eleven swans wearing gold crowns. Just then the sun set, the feathers fell away, and before her stood her brothers! They told her that during the day they were swans, but at night they turned back into princes. They lived far across the ocean and only once a year, when the days were the longest, did they dare to cross the ocean to visit their home country.
The swans carried Elisa across the ocean in a net, stopping for the night on a tiny rock island. When they reached the shore Elisa prayed to God for help and she dreamt that she could save her brothers by making each a shirt that was knit from nettles. However, once she started knitting she must not speak a word until the task was completed, otherwise the first word spoken would kill her brothers. Elisa immediately started on her task, her hands and arms burning and blistering from the nettles.
The country’s king saw Elisa and fell in love with her. He took her back to his castle, away from her nettles and shirts. Elisa could not speak and so could not explain her task, but when the king saw how unhappy she was, he gave her a room in the castle where he placed her nettles and shirts. Here Elisa continued to knit.
When Elisa started the seventh shirt she ran out of nettles. She therefore went at night to collect more nettles from the graveyard, for only nettles from a graveyard could be used. The archbishop urged the king to follow Elisa night after night as she went to the graveyard and when the king saw the wicked witches at the graveyard, he thought Elisa one of these.
The people decreed that Elisa should be burned. But Elisa continued to knit, even in her prison cell and as she was carried on a cart to the pyre. Just as the executioner grabbed her, the eleven wild swans swooped down. Elisa quickly threw the shirts over them and there stood eleven beautiful princes! The youngest still had a swan wing instead of one of his arms for the shirt was not completed.
The people saw that Elisa was innocent and the king placed a white rose over her heart. The church bells rang on their own and there was a wedding procession back to the castle, such as no king had seen before.
It won't let me link to Wikipedia, which is where this comes from.
EDIT: Darn! I must be wrong because you mention sisters. In the Russian version, the girl has brothers. In the original story that this is drawn from, the girl doesn't have enough time or nettles (whichever) to finish one shirt, so one person doesn't make a full transformation. It's been a long time since I saw The Wild Swans. I remember The Snow Queen in more detail.
Actually, I think that I might order this DVD!
2007-09-19 20:15:24 · answer #1 · answered by MystMoonstruck 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's from the Sevenwaters Trilogy, a series of books. Try looking it up on imdb.com. Maybe under The Six Swans, which was also a fairy tale.
2007-09-14 18:30:42 · answer #2 · answered by mustlovedogs 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like a Strawberry Shortcake or Rainbow Friends film, likely put out around 1979-1981.
Anyway, if you're 29, your avatar photo has you looking MUCH younger.
2007-09-14 18:32:33 · answer #3 · answered by Mr. Wizard 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The story was The Six Swans by the Bros. Grimm. Check this link to see if this is what you recall.
http://www.amazon.com/Fairy-Tales-Brothers-Devils-Golden/dp/B000BI5MD6
2007-09-14 18:31:07 · answer #4 · answered by claudiacake 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sound more like Vampire Hunter D
2016-05-19 23:53:42 · answer #5 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋