Jan Klaassen’s mother takes him to a house painter so that he can start an apprenticeship with him. The mother explains that Jan is difficult and “too honest”. The painter replies that if he causes trouble, he will spank him. Before working, Jan really wants to eat and drink, but the painter gives him a spanking . Because his back takes on all kinds of colours after this beating, Jan believes that he can learn something from this painter.

Glove-puppet

Not specified

Uilenspiegel Tijl

Netherlands

Printed

Learning

Farcical

Dutch

Jan Klaassen

Painter

Mother

House painter

Misunderstanding

Blow-with-a-stick

Jan Klaassen wordt Verwer

Jan Klaassen becomes a house painter

A wealthy baker chef asks his cousin the apothecary to help him poison Pierrot, who is constantly robbing and assaulting him. When this plan fails, he sends his dog after the thief, but Pierrot kills the dog. Knowing that Pierrot has always wanted to learn pastry-making, the baker pretends to take him on as an apprentice to get revenge. But Pierrot plays many tricks. The gendarme, who has come to arrest him, is swindled, then hanged in the villain's place. Pierrot kills the baker and the apothecary, as a worthy disciple of Polichinelle.

All audiences

France

Paris

Duranty Louis Émile Edmond

Pastry

Theft

Money

Wickedness

Poison

Revenge

Criminal

Perseverance in Evil

Cruelty

Cruelty to an animal

Comical

French

Pierrot

Pastry chef

Apothecary

Constable

Headbutt

Fight with an animal

Lazzi

Back Stroke

Hanging scene

Pierrot et le pâtissier

Pierrot and the baker

Bouffefeu (Eatfire), the director of the theatre, announces that he is going to tell a rewritten version of Pinocchio’s adventures. Just as he is about to start carving a piece of wood, Père (Father) sees it morph into a puppet. He adopts it as his own child and, even though he is poor, gives it all he can. Instead of going to school, Pinocchio, accompanied by Grillon (Cricket), sells everything he owns to enter the funfair. Bouffefeu, the owner of the funfair theatre, takes pity on Pinocchio’s poverty and gives him five coins. They decide to head home and meet Chat (Cat) and Renard (Fox) on the way. Pinocchio shows them his money. Then, Chat and Renard dress up try to steal his money but Pinocchio and Grillon manage to escape and hide from them. On the advice of Fée Bleue (Blue Fairy), the allegory of Pinocchio’s mother, they hit the road. They encounter Chat and Renard again, who make Pinocchio believe that if he if he sows his money, a tree will grow out of it and will produce new coins. Pinocchio is gullible; he believes them and complies.
At another funfair, the Bonimenteur (Barker) changes him into a donkey, but he manages to escape. In the stomach of a sea monster, Pinocchio and Grillon find Père again. The three of them manage to get back onto dry land. Back to the Field of Miracles where Pinocchio buried his money, Pinocchio discovers trees laden with gold coins. He meets the Fée Bleue who lets him decide between becoming a real little boy or remaining a puppet. He chooses to remain a puppet so that he can always be a child in his father’s eyes.