History Literature / TheThreeRobbers

The story was [[AnimatedAdaptation adapted]] into an American [[https://youtu.be/dcbaDAtjCN0 animated short]] by Creator/GeneDeitch in 1972, then into a [[WesternAnimation/TheThreeRobbers German feature animated film]] in 2007. A chamber opera adaptation by Gilles Rico was made in 2024.

The story was [[AnimatedAdaptation adapted]] into an American [[https://youtu.be/dcbaDAtjCN0 animated short]] by Creator/GeneDeitch in 1972, then into a [[WesternAnimation/TheThreeRobbers German feature animated film]] in 2007. A chamber opera adaptation was made in 2024.

The story was [[AnimatedAdaptation adapted]] into an American [[https://youtu.be/dcbaDAtjCN0 animated short]] by Creator/GeneDeitch in 1972, then into a [[WesternAnimation/TheThreeRobbers German feature animated film]] in 2007.

The story was [[AnimatedAdaptation adapted]] into an American [[https://youtu.be/dcbaDAtjCN0 animated short]] by Creator/GeneDeitch in 1972, then into a German feature animated film in 2007, directed by Hayo Freitag.

!!The book provides examples of:

!!Tropes specific to the 2007 animated film:

* AdaptationExpansion: The film considerably expands the story, for the book is quite short (every panel is recreated in the 1972 animated short, for that matter).
* CanonForeigner: The film adds many new characters like a policeman, a frog-like coachman, and a evil witch who runs an OrphanageOfFear that the robbers later buy with their gold.
* InexplicablyIdenticalIndividuals: The film adverts this by having them show their faces and each of them having a different personality.
* NamedByTheAdaptation: The film gives names to the three robbers -- Felix (the one with the pepper blower), Maximus (the one with the double sided axe) and Dominik (the one with the blunderbuss).
* ShoutOut: Like with all the animated movies the Weinstein Company produced or imported, the American dub of the film adds multiple pop culture references.
* SinisterSchnoz: The film gives a pointy nose to all three of the robbers.

The story was [[AnimatedAdaptation adapted]] into an American [[https://youtu.be/dcbaDAtjCN0 animated short]] by Creator/GeneDeitch in 1972, then into a German feature animated film in 2007, directed by Hayo Freitag. The 2007 film was released in America by The Weinstein Company under the title of the ''Trick or Treaters'', with the original material shortened and reworked into a Halloween story.

The story was [[AnimatedAdaptation adapted]] into an American [[https://youtu.be/dcbaDAtjCN0 animated short]] by Creator/GeneDeitch in 1972, then into a German feature animated film in 2007, directed by Hayo Freitag. The film was released in America by The Weinstein Company under the title of the ''Trick or Treaters'', with the original material shortened and reworked into a Halloween story.

!!This book provides examples of:

* AdaptationExpansion: The 2007 film considerably expands the story, for the book is quite short (every panel is recreated in the 1972 animated short, for that matter).

* CanonForeigner: The 2007 film adds many new characters like a policeman, a frog-like coachman, and a evil witch who runs an OrphanageOfFear that the robbers later buy with their gold.

* InexplicablyIdenticalIndividuals: The three robbers all look identical, and there's no mention of them being triplets, let alone brothers. The 2007 film adverts this by having them show their faces and each of them having a different personality.

* NoNameGiven: The robbers are not named in the book. The 2007 animated film [[NamedByTheAdaptation gives them names]] however -- Felix (the one with the pepper blower), Maximus (the one with the double sided axe) and Dominik (the one with the blunderbuss).

* ShoutOut: Like with all of The Weinstein Company's animated movies, the Weinstein dub of the 2007 film adds multiple pop culture references.
* SinisterSchnoz: At least one of the robbers has a pointy nose in the book. The 2007 animated film gives one to all three of them.

* InexplicablyIdenticalIndividuals: The three robbers all look identical, and there's no mention of them being triplets, let alone brothers.

The story was [[AnimatedAdaptation adapted]] into an American [[https://youtu.be/dcbaDAtjCN0 animated short]] by Creator/GeneDeitch in 1972, then into a German feature animated film in 2007, directed by Hayo Freitag.

* NoNameGiven: The robbers are not named in the book. The 2007 animated film [[NamedByTheAdaptation gives them names]] however -- Felix (the one with the pepper blower), Maximus (the one with the red axe) and Dominik (the one with the blunderbuss).

* WeaponBasedCharacterization: Each one of the robbers has a distinctive weapon: one has a bellows to blow pepper into the eyes of the coaches' horses, another has a big red double bladed axe to demolish the coaches' wheels, and the third has a [[{{BFG}} blunderbuss]] to threaten the travellers in order to rob them.