The lives of the Grimm brothers Wilhelm and Jacob, who were famous for their literary works in the nineteenth century, are dramatized. Wilhelm fights to write something entertaining among the sea of dry, non-fiction books they produce, and he begins collecting oral-tradition fairy tales to publish. Their life story is juxtaposed with reenactments of three of their stories: "The Dancing Princess," "The Cobbler and the Elves," and "The Singing Bone."
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The lives of the Grimm brothers Wilhelm and Jacob, who were famous for their literary works in the nineteenth century, are dramatized. Wilhelm fights to write something entertaining among the sea of dry, non-fiction books they produce, and he begins collecting oral-tradition fairy tales to publish. Their life story is juxtaposed with reenactments of three of their stories: "The Dancing Princess," "The Cobbler and the Elves," and "The Singing Bone."
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