Character Relationship Map: Dwarf Nose

Characters

• Jakob als Kind (played by Matthias Glugla) — protagonist

  Jakob is a twelve-year-old boy who helps his mother sell vegetables at the market and carries customers’ purchases home. After he mocks an old woman’s appearance, she lures him to her house and feeds...

• Jakob als Zwerg (played by Carmen-Maja Antoni) — protagonist

  After eating the old woman’s enchanted soup, Jakob becomes a dwarf with a long nose. He spends what he believes is seven years dreaming in her house and learning to cook, then wakes and discovers that...

• Jakob als junger Mann (played by Peter Jahoda) — supporting

  Jakob continues his story after leaving the old woman’s house and being rejected by his parents, who no longer recognize him. He decides to work as a cook for the duke and later meets Mimi, a talking...

• Fee Kräuterweiß / Hexe (played by Doris Abeßer) — supporting

  The old woman who enchants Jakob is the story’s antagonist. After he insults her appearance at the market, she threatens to make him like her, takes him to her house, and gives him magical soup that t...

• Herzog (played by Peter Bause) — supporting

  The duke is the ruler for whom Jakob decides to seek employment as a cook after his parents fail to recognize him and send him away. The synopsis identifies him as Jakob’s prospective employer but giv...

Canonical Relationships

Family, romantic, and professional connections based on plot evidence.

• Jakob als junger Mann → Jakob als Kind (Temporal Aged Self)
• Jakob als Kind → Jakob als Zwerg (Temporal Cursed Transformation)
• Jakob als junger Mann → Herzog (Professional Job Seeker)
• Jakob als Zwerg → Jakob als junger Mann (Temporal Transformed Self)
• Jakob als Zwerg → Fee Kräuterweiß / Hexe (Professional Apprentice)

Story Dynamics

Alliances, conflicts, and narrative interactions that evolve throughout the story.

• Jakob als junger Mann → Fee Kräuterweiß / Hexe (Social Former Host)
• Jakob als Kind → Fee Kräuterweiß / Hexe (Conflict Cursed Victim)

Story Analysis

A boy endures enchantment, displacement, and lost time before finding a path back to human form.

Plot Progression

1. Marketday and the Curse — Jakob helps sell vegetables at the market and insults an old woman. She threatens him, takes him home with six cabbages, and gives him magical soup.
2. Seven Years Enchanted — The soup transforms Jakob into a long-nosed dwarf. He spends seven years in the house, believing that he is dreaming while learning how to cook.
3. A Stranger at Home — An herb makes Jakob sneeze and awakens him to reality. He returns home, but his parents do not recognize him and drive him away.
4. The Cook's Second Chance — Jakob seeks work in the duke's household and becomes a cook. There he meets a talking goose who was also bewitched by the old woman.
5. The Enchantment Ends — Jakob and the talking goose search for the magical herb. Jakob smells the restoring flower and becomes human again in the film's resolution.