Engelebert Humperdinck’s (the German composer, unsurprisingly, not the British-Indian pop-singer-turned Eurovision entrant) take on the classic fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm. Having lost their mother at an early age, young Hansel and Gretel now live a less than carefree existence at the mercy of their father’s bullying new wife. When their homeland is hit with a devastating famine, their abusive step-mother leads the pair into the woods to starve – but things take a supernatural twist when the plucky siblings stumble upon a house made of delicious gingerbread. Naturally, the starving children can’t believe their luck, and begin eating the miraculous dwelling. Unfortunately for them, it happens to be the home of a witch with a taste for human flesh, and before long poor Hansel and Gretel have been captured, fattened up, and made ready for a long roasting in the sorceress’s oven. But quick-thinking Gretel outsmarts the witch, feigning curiosity to lure her dangerously close to the oven’s open door before shoving inside. Just then, the pair’s distraught father bursts in, having learned of their plight, and the reunited family sit down to a dinner of roasted witch.