The Three Sisters who Fell into the Mountain

**The Three Sisters who Fell into the Mountain** is an animated short that is adapted from a folkloric tale from Norway. It is part of the anthology series "*Animated Tales of the World*."

## Summary

Set in the shadows of a mountain in Norway, there lives a poor family consisting of a mother and her three sisters named Kari, Mari, and Mai. At night, the sisters rest for the night. This is because during the sunset, many things are not what they seem; the trees and the mountains shift their shapes and nocturnal trolls living under the mountain go about their strange and magic ways. Meanwhile, the sisters' mother who is ill, decides to just have an egg in order to replenish her strength. The hen suddenly wakes up upon seeing chicken food being given by a mysterious figure. The hen follows the trail of food leading far away from the sisters' home. The hen is then suddenly captured that night.

The next day, Mai is worried that the only hen the the family has is missing, thinking that the hen is captured and eaten by foxes. The three sisters decide to find the hen that was missing from last night. Kari, one of the sisters, goes up a mountain path in search of the hen by finding one of her feathers. It becomes night again where everything strange happens. She then falls into a mysterious lair in the mountain. Back at their home, the two of the sisters are worried that Kari is missing thinking that she fell into the mountain as they decide to look for Kari and the hen. Meanwhile, Kari is revealed to have survived her fall into the lair and inside the lair is a troll who asks her to be his sweetheart. She however refuses to be his sweetheart and as a result, Kari is petrified into a statue.

Meanwhile, Mari and Mai arrive in the mountaintop where both of them end up in the troll's lair. Mai, the youngest of all the three sisters, hears Mari refusing to be the troll's sweetheart. The troll then petrifies her for not being his sweetheart in anger. The troll then arrives to Mai in which she agrees to be his sweetheart. Meanwhile, the sisters' mother is worried that all of her sisters are gone. Back then, the hen is revealed to be petrified by the troll, along with with Mari and Kari. Mai is then happy with the troll for restoring the hen back to her normal form with magic dust. Mai then starts tricking the troll into making a big breakfast by getting lots of wood as she prepares to help restore her sisters to their while the troll is away. Mai then retrieves the jar of magic dust as she tells the hen to alert her if the troll is back in his lair. Mai then drops the jar of magic dust which restores her sisters back to their normal forms.

Upon restoring her sisters back to their normal forms, the three sisters decide to escape before the troll arrives back to his lair. Meanwhile, thunder appears and the hen alerts the sisters knowing that the troll is coming back to his lair. The troll then arrives back to his lair, worried that there is thunder outside his lair as Mai tells her sisters to hide into the sack. Mai then tells the troll to help her sick mother who doesn't have anything to eat. Kari and Mari then escape the mountains by hiding into a sack as Mai tells the troll that the sack is filled with food. Mai then decides to wear her normal dress again as she plans to escape. After this, Mai then creates a sculpture of herself to trick the troll again into helping make breakfast. The troll travels through the night to drop the sack off at the home of the sisters' mother. This is because that if the troll travels during the sunlight, the troll is petrified into stone.

Mai and the hen prepare to escape as the troll finds some wood for his big stove. Mai is then worried to know if she could escape the troll's lair. She suddenly sees a spider hanging down as Mai sees the spider's web on the branch. Mai and the hen decide to reach the branch by using the rope in order to escape the troll's lair. Upon escaping, Mai and the hen see the troll bringing in wood for the stove. The troll arrives back to his lair and found out that Mai tricked him with the sculpture she created. The troll is enraged that Mai has escaped the troll's lair and decides to go after her. Mai decides to go to the family house as the troll tries to bring her back to his lair to continue preparing breakfast. Suddenly, the troll is petrified into stone by the rays of the sun. The sisters and their mother see the troll who is petrified into stone. The narrator then explains that there is a mountain in Norway shaped like a troll in the present

## Voice Cast

* Alexei Sayle - The Troll

* Wayne Foskett - The Narrator

* Stella Gonet - The Mother

* Eva Arnold - Kari

* Sophy Ridge - Mari

* Ciara Janson - Mai