Vom König Midas

On an open‐air stage, a small town’s Pioneers enact King Midas’s tale: granted by Bacchus the power to turn everything he touches to gold, Midas’s greed backfires when even food becomes gold. Desperate, he begs the god to reverse the gift, only to be left with donkey’s ears as a lifelong reminder.

Country:

Germany,

East Germany

Genre:

Drama

Duration:

52 minutes

Year:

1963

Director:

Günter Stahnke

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Company:

DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme

Cast:
Dietrich Heilmann

Midas

Günter Pudak

Manfred Hennecke

Crew:
Günter Stahnke

Director

Günter Stahnke

Writer

Günter Kunert

Writer

Lothar Gerber

Cinematography

Helga Emmrich

Editor