The movie is an adaptation of an Adalbert Stifter novel, written in the year 1845. And that says everything about the story. It's just old.
There are two villages in the Alps, one rich and one poor. Some shoemaker falls in love with a girl, who is living in the rich village. They marry, are living in the poor village, everyone hates them. They get 2 children and their marriage seems to brake up. So the wife is going back to the rich village, the kids stay with the father, but are visiting every day their mother - which is a march about 3 hours. The kids hear the story about a rock crystal that can reunite two lovers. At Christmas Eve the kids are marching from one village to another - again, but there is a blizzard. They get lost. And they search the crystal. You may envision the rest...
It's a total family film. Not only that the director is the husband of the main actress and the father of the little girl, but also because it's just a boring Christmas movie for the little ones.
Frequent continuity errors (Good weather and blue sky - cut - 1 sec later - dark clouds and snowfall; or the one I loved the most: autumn -the kids are at a stone, the trees are bald, not one leaf - cut - kids are still at the rock, all the trees got buds....yes, it's spring!), extremely bad actors, different dialects (german dialects! - Stifter was Austrian and the story takes place in Austria - but this only bothers an Austrian guy) and an absolute boring and predictable story make this movie to the X-Mas-flop of the year.
Save the money! Save your time! You won't miss anything.
There are two villages in the Alps, one rich and one poor. Some shoemaker falls in love with a girl, who is living in the rich village. They marry, are living in the poor village, everyone hates them. They get 2 children and their marriage seems to brake up. So the wife is going back to the rich village, the kids stay with the father, but are visiting every day their mother - which is a march about 3 hours. The kids hear the story about a rock crystal that can reunite two lovers. At Christmas Eve the kids are marching from one village to another - again, but there is a blizzard. They get lost. And they search the crystal. You may envision the rest...
It's a total family film. Not only that the director is the husband of the main actress and the father of the little girl, but also because it's just a boring Christmas movie for the little ones.
Frequent continuity errors (Good weather and blue sky - cut - 1 sec later - dark clouds and snowfall; or the one I loved the most: autumn -the kids are at a stone, the trees are bald, not one leaf - cut - kids are still at the rock, all the trees got buds....yes, it's spring!), extremely bad actors, different dialects (german dialects! - Stifter was Austrian and the story takes place in Austria - but this only bothers an Austrian guy) and an absolute boring and predictable story make this movie to the X-Mas-flop of the year.
Save the money! Save your time! You won't miss anything.