Unlike Andersen's tale, which ends with the burning of the tree, the film shows a cone from the tree surviving the fire and being thrown into the forest, perhaps to grow into another fir tree. The story follows the tree from cone through seedling, until it is cut down by a boy and his father to be used as a Christmas tree.
In 2011, the story was again adapted as a short, Danish-language film directed by Lars Henrik Ostenfeld and presented in a modern setting. It was adapted as the sixteenth episode of The Fairytaler. This was the first film produced by Kevin Sullivan who went on to write, direct and produce the Anne of Green Gables movies. Jeff Kahnert provided the voice of the Fir-Tree. The tale was adapted to a 28-minute video format in 1979 by Huntingwood Films produced by Kevin Sullivan, directed by Martin Hunter and filmed at Black Creek Pioneer Village, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. One scholar (Andersen biographer Jackie Wullschlager) indicates that "The Fir-Tree" was the first of Andersen's fairy tales to express a deep pessimism. Second Collection, in Copenhagen, Denmark, by C.A. The tale was first published 21 December 1844 with " The Snow Queen", in New Fairy Tales. The tale is about a fir tree so anxious to grow up, so anxious for greater things, that he cannot appreciate living in the moment.
" The Fir-Tree" ( Danish: Grantræet) is a literary fairy tale by the Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875).
The Snow Queen: A Fairy Tale in Seven Stories Short story by Hans Christian Andersen "The Fir-Tree"
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