Film country Germany has not yet produced much in the way of large-scale fantasy entertainment. After The Neverending Story, Krabat might come to mind, and then what? This fantasy drought was what they wanted in the 2010s Film adaptation of a German bestseller series change something and the result of Rubinrot and Co. is now available to stream for free on Amazon Freevee *.
Stream German Fantasy for free on Amazon: ruby red, sapphire blue and emerald green
Ruby Red (2013), Sapphire Blue (2014) and Emerald Green (2016) filmed the so-called Gem Trilogy * by the German fantasy author Kerstin Gier, which is also a series under the title Love goes through all times is known. The three films have been available to watch in Amazon’s ad-based free stream Freevee since October 7, 2023.
What is the Gem Trilogy about? Gwen (Maria Ehrich) belongs to an English noble family who… Time travel gene passed on from generation to generation to selected descendants. This magical ability is kept hidden from the world by a secret lodge. Gwen’s cousin Charlotte was groomed from an early age to inherit her supernatural inheritance. Gwen is amazed when she unexpectedly begins to jump through time instead.
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Ruby Red: Gideon and Gwen
In order to catch up as quickly as possible with everything the fantasy heroine has never learned (dancing, wardrobe, behavior in the past), Gwen is asked to help Gwen, who is also a time traveler, Gideon de Villiers (Jannis Niewöhner). At first she can’t stand him, but at some point things start to spark romantically. School and teenage problems meet first love and magical leaps in time. And then there’s the mystery that Gwen can apparently see ghosts.
The fantasy films in the Edelstein trilogy grossed over 10 million euros in Germany
Sometimes described in the past as Twilight with time travel, the fantasy series brings through her England setting at the same time some Harry Potter vibes. The novels were enormously popular and the hoped-for turnout in Germany, which was rather cinema-shy, was correspondingly high.
According to the German industry website Blickpunkt Film, the first part played Ruby Red in this country 3.4 million Euro one, part 2 (sapphire blue) 3.8 million Euro and the finish emerald green even 4 million Euro. In total, the German fantasy trilogy comes to over 11 million euros. The international site Boxoffice even reports global box office earnings of more than $5 million per film for parts 1 and 2.
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Ruby red: Kostja Ullmann as a ghost
This cannot be compared with major global fantasy films such as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (1 billion dollars in box office revenue) or the first Twilight film (408 million dollars), but it is not bad by German standards. For comparison: Among all German cinema releases of national and international films in 2016, Smaragdgrün landed in 54th place according to audience figures (via Inside Kino).
The next big German fantasy project is supposed to be the film adaptation of the Woodwalkers series with three films announced.
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