The Snow Queen (2005) on Netflix
Gerda befriends Kay, a poor boy her mother takes in. A splinter of glass chills his heart, and he rides away on the Snow Queen's sleigh. Gerda goes after him.
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Plot summary
On a winter night Gerda notices a poor boy shivering in the cold and offers him a penny and a blanket. Her mother takes him in, feeds and clothes him, and the boy, whose name is Kay, becomes her friend. One night Gerda's mother tells the two of them about the Snow Queen, who rules the winter. Kay has seen her and has fallen in love with her, and when she returns he opens the window. Something falls into his eye, his heart turns cold, and he is cruel toward Gerda, who cannot understand the change and keeps trying to mend their friendship. One day in the woods Kay hitches Gerda's sled to the Snow Queen's sleigh and rides off with her.
Cast
- Colleen Williamsas Mrs. Neilson
- Brian Akinsas Pieter
- Benjamin Headas Stefan
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Snow Queen (2005)
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- The film exists because of a concert. Paul K. Joyce wrote a set of operatic songs narrating Andersen's tale for a 2003 performance at the Barbican, with Sydney Rae White as girl soprano, Juliet Stevenson narrating and the London Symphony Orchestra playing; its success led to a film built around those songs, with White and Stevenson returning as actresses.
- Because Joyce's songs carry the narration, spoken dialogue is unusually sparse and the Snow Queen herself has no lines at all. The Raven, voiced by Patrick Stewart, was given far more prominence than in the fairytale so that he accompanies Gerda for her whole journey.
- Every live-action scene was shot against bluescreen in Toronto with backgrounds rendered entirely in CGI for a storybook look, which left Sydney Rae White and Juliet Stevenson acting out freezing Arctic cold in layers of clothing inside a hot studio.
