Patriarch and entrepreneur August Manzl is terminally ill. As his four grown-up children are all spoiled and sluggish, he comes up with a rather cynical idea to determine the future leader of the families empire: whoever of his children shows the courage and willpower to end his suffering within the next week will become the sole heir - and simultaneously proof the skills necessary to succeed in a modern business world. Between the children a murderous competition evolves.
A king is married to a woman with golden hair. The queen falls ill, and realising she’s going to die she asks her husband that, if he’d ever remarry, it would be only to a woman as beautiful as her with the same golden hair. Unfortunately, the only one to fit the description is his own daughter, Princess Lotte. He decides to marry her. All she can do is flee. She dirties her face and hands with soot and escapes.
По мотивам сказки братьев Гримм. Как-то раз в далёкой-далёкой стране отец в сердцах проклял шестерых своих детей, и те обернулись лебедями. Спустя 18 лет их младшей сестре Констанце предстоит спасти братьев и сестёр, но для этого ей придётся пройти сложный путь...
Фильм даст совершенно неожиданный ответ на извечный вопрос: а кем же «был или не был» Шекспир, и кто на самом деле скрывается за этим всемирно известным именем великого человека?
