“In a small town not far from here lived a farmer with three
sons. The oldest was named Didldei, the middle, Didldob, and
the youngest, Hondidldo.
The farmer also had a magnifi cent apple tree, and one day he
noticed that a large number of apples were missing. In order
to discover who the thief was, he ordered his oldest son, Didldei,
to stand guard that night…”
Talespin’s adaptation of this upper Austrian folk legend features
stolen apples, the strange pale men who steal them,
and a simple boy who sets out to get them back armed with
nothing but a violin.
The music, by American film scorer Ben Newhouse uses elements
of traditional Austrian folk melodies, yodeling and dance
music while the whimsical illustrations by Austrian illustrator Barbara Huppmann give the work a charmingly traditional, decidedly
Austrian flair. |
