East German adaptation of Grimm‘s fairy tale "Rumpelstiltskin". A boastful miller pretends that his daughter Marie can spin straw into gold, and so she is locked into a room full of straw and ordered to spin it into gold by the next morning. A little man appears and offers his help in exchange for Marie's necklace. The greedy treasurer makes Marie spin twice more until the only thing she has left to give the little man is the promise of her first-born child…
Siegfried Seibt
as Rumpelstilzchen
Karin Lesch
as Müllerstochter Marie
Karl-Heinz Rothin
as Müller Kunz
Reinhard Michalke
as Müllerbursche Hans
Nikolaus Paryla
as König
Peter Dommisch
as Der einfältige Nachbar
Bodo Mette
as Schatzmeister
Hans-Hartmut Krüger
as Bote des Königs
Franz Bonnet
as Torwächter
Werner Pfeifer
as Schreiber
Hans Flössel
as Erster Bauer
Hans Feldner
as Zweiter Bauer
