The Tinder Box
Seen it?1959 | 80 min | Fantasy, Family
Monday Morning Maybeearly ratingWhy it’s a Monday Morning Maybe
With almost no lasting buzz and soft box office, this one could be a tough watch. Keep your phone handy.
Based on critics, audiences, awards, box office and buzz. Details below.Is it for you?
- Who'll love it
- One for anyone who likes a world with its own rules and parents and kids watching together. Best enjoyed if you're happy to go along with its world. Shelve it next to The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
- The mood
- Feel-good.
- The pace
- Paced for all ages, at 1 hr 20 min. Short enough for a weeknight.
- What might put you off
- No age rating on record, so check it first for young kids.
- It's in German, so expect subtitles (or a dub).
- Made in 1959: an older pace and style.
- Skip it if you like your stories firmly grounded in the real world.
A young soldier discovers three chests of copper, silver and gold and an old tinder-box in the hollow of an old oak tree. He is now rich. But he squanders the money until it is all gone. All he has left is the old tinder-box. He uses it to light a small pipe and three large dogs come to his rescue. Based on the fairy-tale by Hans Christian Anderson.
How it earned its rating
- CriticsNot counted
Not enough reviews on record yet
- AudiencesNot counted
Not measured yet: not enough ratings
- AwardsNot counted
No major awards or nominations
- Reach & staying powerBelow par
Streaming release that reached a small audience so far; still draws a steady audience long after release
- Buzz & cultural impactWeak
About 2K people sought it out in the past year
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Cast & crew
Directed by Siegfried Hartmann
- Rolf LudwigDer Soldat
- Heinz SchubertDer Geizige
- Rolf DefrankDer Eitle
- Hannes FischerDer Dicke
- Hans FiebrandtDer König
- Maria BesendahlDie Königin
- Senta BonackerDie Kammerfrau
- Bella WaldritterDie Hexe
- Fritz SchlegelDer Wirt
- Barbara MehlanPrinzessin