The Fir-Tree

<h2 id="adaptations">Adaptations</h2>
<p>The tale was adapted to a 28-minute video format in 1979 by Huntingwood Films produced by <a href="/facts/Kevin_Sullivan_(producer)/UvwXfNQ1">Kevin Sullivan</a>, directed by Martin Hunter and filmed at <a href="/facts/Black_Creek_Pioneer_Village/tthR9tYA">Black Creek Pioneer Village</a>, <a href="/facts/Toronto/cnXH7881">Toronto, Ontario</a>, Canada. Jeff Kahnert provided the voice of the Fir-Tree. This was the first film produced by <a href="/facts/Kevin_Sullivan_(producer)/UvwXfNQ1">Kevin Sullivan</a> who went on to write, direct and produce the Anne of Green Gables movies.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a>
</p><p>It was adapted as the sixteenth episode of <a href="/facts/The_Fairytaler/uLhWngfE">The Fairytaler</a>.
</p><p>In 2011, the story was again adapted as a short, <a href="/facts/Danish_language/sTcGXTMJ">Danish-language</a> film directed by Lars Henrik Ostenfeld and presented in a modern setting. The story follows the tree from <a href="/facts/Conifer_cone/rqHh3fVu">cone</a> through <a href="/facts/Seedling/4v0rv1CT">seedling</a>, until it is cut down by a boy and his father to be used as a <a href="/facts/Christmas_tree/855tbXu6">Christmas tree</a>. 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.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a>
</p><p>In 2014, Janani Sreenivasan adapted her script "Pine", originally performed at the University of Iowa's No Shame Theatre in December 2006, into the short film "The Fir Tree", which she co-directed with Lee Jutton. In this version, we hear the tree's first-person account (in Danish) of being chopped down and attending its first Christmas party, which ends badly for all involved.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a>
</p><p><a href="/facts/Charles_M._Schulz/IxGA8Jko">Charles M. Schulz</a>, author and artist of the world-renowned <i><a href="/facts/Peanuts/vVtGkzuE">Peanuts</a></i> comic strip, incorporated elements of "The Fir Tree" into his first television movie, <i><a href="/facts/A_Charlie_Brown_Christmas/VyYXKHVv">A Charlie Brown Christmas</a></i> (December 9, 1965 on CBS).
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<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2>
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<li>Literature portal</li></ul>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/List_of_works_by_Hans_Christian_Andersen/WhF3tfjM">List of works by Hans Christian Andersen</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/List_of_Christmas-themed_literature/m7Llex1p">List of Christmas-themed literature</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li> Works related to The Fir Tree at Wikisource</li>
<li> Danish <a href="/facts/Wikisource/TrMdylNf">Wikisource</a> has original text related to this article: Grantræet</li>
<li> Media related to The Fir-Tree at Wikimedia Commons</li>
<li><a href="http://www.andersen.sdu.dk/vaerk/hersholt/TheFirTree_e.html">"The Fir Tree"</a> English translation by <a href="/facts/Jean_Hersholt/KcG2Br6e">Jean Hersholt</a></li>
<li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20051024013143/http://www.adl.dk/adl_pub/vaerker/cv/e_vaerk/e_vaerk.xsql?ff_id=22&id=2478&hist=fmG&nnoc=adl_pub"><i>Grantræet</i></a> Original Danish text</li>
<li><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0289949/"><i>The Fir-Tree</i></a> at <a href="/facts/IMDb_(identifier)/uWrqVYVy">IMDb</a> </li>
<li><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2081254/"><i>Grantræet</i></a> at <a href="/facts/IMDb_(identifier)/uWrqVYVy">IMDb</a> </li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>Wullschlager, Jackie (15 June 2002). Hans Christian Andersen: The Life of a Storyteller. University of Chicago Press. pp. 256–258, 272, 379. ISBN 0-226-91747-9. <a href="0-226-91747-9" target="_blank">0-226-91747-9</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>"The Fir Tree". Internet Movie Database. 1979. <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0289949/" target="_blank">https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0289949/</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>"Grantræet". Internet Movie Database. 2011. <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2081254/" target="_blank">https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2081254/</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:4"><p>"The Fir Tree", Internet Movie Database, 2000, retrieved January 19, 2017 <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4104470/?ref_=fn_al_tt_3" target="_blank">https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4104470/?ref_=fn_al_tt_3</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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