Fans' Activities

Since the film is 30 years old and therefore there will hardly be any new stuff about it, several fans do their fun themselves. First to mention the musicians who thoughout the far too many years before the release of the OST did not want to wait for a good CD or a nice videoclip.

Many femal fans appareantly dream of a Cinderella-style wedding. Others perform the fairytale with a whole riding school. A Norwegian fan has even founded an internet-community on LiveJournal.com. Not too many, yet, but still fans from across Germany visit the Cinderella-Party, taking place each winter. And for those hardened ones there are mobile-phone-pics and 3nfc-ringtones.

The most brilliant fans' activity until now has been the tremendous wave of e-mails persuading Supraphon to release another, this time real OST of our film. Great!!! Now we are trying to get a better DVD...

We are trying to convince Icestorm to try and get hold of the necessary rights to release a new DVD with all dubbings ever done and some bonus material. You could help us by

signing The Petition now!

Please use your full, real name, not a nickname to produce the needed respectability!

Cinderella Weddings

With giant strides the first generation of 3nfc-fans approach marriageable age - if they have not married long ago and today watch their beloved film together with their children.

But nowadays many people marry no earlier than in their 30ies and not few of them - admittedly mostly women - just once in their life want to resemble their childhood's idol and dressed in a wonderful robe dream of answering their fairytale-prince's question: "...and mine, too - if you like to!?"

Not rarely a tailor-made dress is needed, as from one of the below mentioned workshops, a fairytale location, like Sababurg Castle or even Moritzburg Castle and - of course - the music! As we know, this can not be bought in a sufficient quality, so that some take a harp-duo or just play the slow version of Thomas in the church. As Lothar did, who reports: "It has been so moving, that tears tinkled down the bridegroom's (not the bride's!) cheeks."

Because more and more couples are planning their fariytale-wedding or recently had it I'd like to take this into account with this new heading. I hope many more romantic examples will gather here!

As e.g. Crischanti's: "My sister is about to marry in sumer of 2004 and that in a medieval style or like Cinderella. I'm looking forward to it, because finally I can wear a robe :-)"

Also I am waiting for cologne couple's report. Moritzburg Castle's manager told me, the bride in her beautiful dress strode up the ramp leading to the Castle while the bridegroom was waiting for her and finally handed over to her three hazelnuts.
Sigh! Beeing a confirmed bacheloresse, I have to think it over again, I believe...

1995

Stephanie:

"3nfc played a role on my wedding, too: I had to wear a coronet. In the back you can see Philipsruh Castle near Hanau.

Now I am divorced, and after reading your fanpage, I persuaded my boyfriend to watch 3nfc with me. First he thought I was childish, but now we found another fan. Long live romanticism!"

Summer 2001

Being a real 3nfc-fan, you would not marry this way or another...

but like Silke from Stuttgart:

"I have got three brohters ans all of them say for more than twenty years, that I am really "crazy"... ;-)

My wedding of course had to take place on a castle. (Unfortunately this was called SLEEPING BEAUTY CASTLE SABABURG). I had looked for Castle Moritzburg, but this was a little complicated... I had looked for the original music by your homepage, but it was not out yet :-(

So I engaged a harp duo ... This was nice, too. Another great dream was the coach. Soooo beautiful, I am still totally happy, for the rest of my life, I hope :-)) And then the dress... I let myself inspire by Cinderella and got tailored a pink white wedding dress by a really great medieval dressmaker... It still stands on a dummy in our bedroom. Sigh!

Hope, you like it, was not quite the same as Cinderella's, but I love this dress!!! I like "Nehelenia Design" to tailor a pink cape for me, because I get married again with my beloved in Ghana :-))

"La la la lala la lala la la..."
1000 greetings,
Silke"

Summer 2005

We love 3gfc, but do we have to marry in a Renaissance-dress or while riding a horse? Maybe even in winter?

It is enough to wear Cinderella's ball- and wedding-hairdress. While in the movie you can recognize the false curls fairly well these brides managed to get quite a good impression of it by using only their natural hair!

Thank you, Kerstin and Sonja!

Of course marriage is not necessary. You can get this wonderful style just without any lifetime-decision: On the right Katja from Wales - dear user of this fanpage (greetings to the island!)

Filmcostumes

Because pieces are handmade unicates the fun has a price. But it is worth it, as you can see on the picture of Silke's wedding!

Silke from Stuttgart (s.a.) married in a wedding dress by

I have been told of this tailor by other fans, too. Of course not only 3nfc-costumes are made there, but also costumes of many other films.

As well as in Sabine Pothmann's workshop. This (German) website's author has been intweviewed for TV and the German news magazines "Spiegel" and "Focus". Here her apt foreword concerning the 3nfc-costumes (translated by Kathrin Richter):

""Foreword...

I hope, we all have the same opinion: This is mere fantasy dressing. Because of many different characteristics (e.g. queen's dress: elisabethian stand-up collar, slender waistline, tight skirt, medieval "outer ears", parted skirt in the front) it fits into all and no times. Fabrics partly are that glittering, it looks like carnival (or worse). Almost every cloth contains paisleys; if you look at the film closely, you will recognize, that the same fabric often appears on different costumes (what makes me come to the conclusion: Here paisley-fabric has been bought in bales). I can not guarantee to find "exactly" the same cloth, but will try to find a fabric which really resembles the original."

Those of you gernerally interested in costumes should not miss a visit on the following site:

This site is all about period costume, from the Middle Ages up to the early 20th century. Access over 3700 costume pictures through a database, read one of hundreds of articles, or download some authentic period patterns.

Please come in!

Romantic Locations

obviously in the first place: Moritzburg

You can marry inside the baroque chapel and after that celebrate the event, supplied by the caterer resident in the castle, inside the so called "hall of monstrosities". Supposedly not cheap, but very nice!

There is a (German) website about this:

www.heiraten-in-moritzburg.de

sadly offering only very few information. Having had the idea of marrying in Moritzburg Castle, you don't need to visit this site.

Better call Standesamt Moritzburg:
Frau Hübner is competent: tel. 035207-85316 (Data of website of Moritzburg municipality www.moritzburg-regional.de)


"Cinderella lives with her bad stepmother and has to do inferior work the whole day long, and her wicked stepsister hardens her days."		"Dora, the stepsister and the stepmother hope to become acquainted with the young prince."

"But when the court arrives the disappointment is huge, because the prince and his companions are not with them."		"But before the court goes on king and queen invite the stepmother and Dora to the ball..."

"The pince robbed of his shot chases Cinderella and takes her to task. But Cinderella is not at a loss for an answer and can escape."		The prince is kept by his teacher (played by Andreas Gerbet, director of the riding school) from following Cinderella.

Cinderella has to sweep while Dora is trying her ball-dress.		The stepmother has gone shopping with Dora and sprinkled peas on the floor for Cinderella. Fortunately the pigeons help her.

"From it she conjures up a hunting dress and a saddle for her horse, so Cinderella can attend the royal horseplay."	"Meanwhile on the court preparations are made for the ball."		"After work Cinderella finds comfort with Rosalie, who helps her again: From a magic nut comes a beautiful ball-dress."

"The ball starts." horses' ballet		"When the prince on royal demand is to begin the dance, he finds it hard to chose a dancer, because none of them seems to fit to him."

"Fascinated by her charm and beauty he asks for the dance and her hand."		"She rides in and asks the prince again about the riddle. and this time he can solve it."

Sigh!! Unfortunately I could take no pictures of the cahrming and escpecially romantic Pas de Deux Ann-Katrin Rogowski (Cinderella) and Jörg Versteegen (Prince) performed after her fourtunate meeting with their horses Churchill and Dressman. The lots of children kept silent for the moment and some adults secretly wiped their eyes.

A thunderous applause had to wait until the two horses had left the hall. Then the freezing audience let the actors know, how the play had pleased them.