The dark origins of Disney fairy tales - Claudia Schwabe
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An evil stepmother demands a maiden’s lungs and liver; a girl is ripped from a wolf’s stomach; and sisters mutilate their feet to squeeze into a gold slipper. During the early 1800s, brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm gathered these unflinchingly gory details from stories circulating around what’s now Germany. Claudia Schwabe explores how these now-infamous tales evolved as they spread worldwide.
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Meet The Creators
- Educator
- Claudia Schwabe
- Director
- Skirmanta Jakaitė
- Narrator
- Jack Cutmore-Scott
- Composer
- Cem Misirlioglu, Brooks Ball
- Sound Designer
- Cem Misirlioglu, Brooks Ball
