The Snow Queen (DVD)

The dark and complex tale of Hans Christian Andersen's The Snow Queen is brought to life in this stunning and magical mix of music and song, animation and 'live' drama. The tale of how innocence and love, in the shape of the heroine Gerda, can overcome the evil power of their nemesis, The Snow Queen, takes us on a journey through the Enchanted Flower Garden, on a flight through the Northern Lights and into the palace of the Snow Queen herself - a figure powerful enough to 'tie all the winds of the world together'. We meet talking flowers, the helpful raven and reindeer, the Finland woman and the Lapland woman, a band of robbers and a whole royal family. And finally Gerda's tears bring the hero, Kay, back to warmth and life and Spring returns to the countryside. And all the while we are reminded that splinters of an ancient, broken, enchanted looking glass are in the air around us waiting to fly into an unsuspecting eye, like Kay's, and turn a good heart to a lump of ice - and a good person into a gift for the Snow Queen.