Original: Many of these characters are among those collected by the Grimm brothers. A movie based roughly on the Grimm brothers and their tales was made in 2005, called The Brothers Grimm, starring Heath Ledger as Jacob Grimm and Matt Damon as Wilhelm Grimm.
Simplified: The Brothers Grimm (German: Die BrÃ 1\/4 der Grimm, also GebrÃ 1\/4 der Grimm) were the brothers Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm.