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Der Struwwelpeter
1955 · Film · 79 min
Directed by Fritz Genschow
An adaptation of the classic German children's book, with each of the book's stories depicting bad behavior corrected in over-the-top, occasionally violent ways. But, can a miracle help these misbehaving kids with a second chance?
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I cannot talk about China, but in Germany the classic children's book "Der Struwwelpeter" is to my knowledge still quite popular and often read to children:
German original: > http://sternchenland.com/downloads/unsortiertes/Der%20Struwwelpeter%20-%20Heinrich%20Hofmann.pdf
English translation > https://archive.org/details/englishstruwwelp00hoffrich
(note that you should prefer to read this in German if you can, since lots of subtleties are lost in the English adaption).
Here is a movie adaption of this book (in German) - note that they added an epilogue at the end where all stories still come to a happy end:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpcPz-GvHYI
In particular consider the third ("Die gar traurige Geschichte mit dem Feuerzeug"/"The dreadful story about Harriet and the matches"; 16:54 in the video) and the sixth ("Die Geschichte vom Daumenlutscher"/"The story of little thumb-a-suck"; 13:38 in the video) story to see why this might be somewhat different from what I consider as a typical US-American children's book from my non-US perspective. :-)