The Little Match Girl by H.C. Andersen (Short film)

The Little Match Girl (originally named "Den Lille Pige med Svovlstikkerne") is a short story by H.C. Andersen written in 1846.

Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me.

... Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to Me.

© Copyright Stiftelsen Skjulte Skatters Forlag, 2010

[pastelguts]

When I was little I heard this story. I remember crying, but the story stays with me to this day.

[thomassmith]

The worst part? Back in these days, the parents wouldn't even care or notice. She died alone, and forgotten.

[Antimanele]

Hans Christian Andersen is well known for writing sad stories(The Ugly Duckling, The Little Mermaid to name a few)... but The Little Match Girl is by far and wide the saddest one, maybe even one of the saddest stories ever written.
And the reason it is so sad it's because it's extremely realistic; the story could very well be a relatation of a dying child in our days.

[EarlEdenEverlyEmillia]

I read this story when I was a teenager I'm 30 now.. this story stayed with me all those years,

[lorijoyner]

My grandmother read this to me, my brother and sister every Christmas. I tried to read it to my granddaughter and couldn’t get through it for remembering my grandmother. I will keep trying...maybe one day I will be able to get through it without crying.

[X-Prime]

This story will always haunt my soul. I read it to myself as a kid and sobbed, then I got depressed for days. It's the only story that makes me instantly cry 30+ years later.

[alexandrugugulea]

I cried when I was a kid reading this .... I cried now .

[kerahmitchell]

It's really sad she was basically tortured at home, really abused, and they were so poor they could barely afford shoes for her. Her grandma the only one who cared for her died.
She tried fighting off hypothermia with a few measly matches but in the end she hallucinated for something she wish she had. She had caught hypothermia and god knows what other diseases she could've caught back then.
When she saw that falling star it was her. Her last dying words were to a hallucination, and everyone just passed it off as one little girl who couldn't keep warm. It's really sad.

[thajiklanto]

I finally found this story after it has haunted me all my life. My wonderful grandma used to read it from an ancient book to my sister and I when we’d stay with her. It was such a vivid memory. Then she’d comfort us and tell us about how the girl was with god. My grandma grew up incredibly poor with many siblings and a drunkard father who left. She could really rely this story because she lived it in so many ways. I miss you Nan. ❤️

[niftyniff]

to me it's not about religion or compassion to the poor. it's about life being unbearable when you're alone and all the loved ones are dead, the ending is so ambiguous and so relatable, unfortunatelly

[rossalbertdelacruz]

Hans Christian's stories are so messed up yet, it so good at the same time.

[aha]

This story explains about the hallucination most people would have during their near death moment. The little girl had never tasted those mundane delights she saw in her matches' light. While in the midst of cruel cold night, freezing, she met every wish she ever yearns during her lifetime. Finally she earned her turn to be the happiest person on earth, although it should be done in her very last breath.

[giorgikavleli]

I will buy all your matches little girl😭😭

[louisamontagu]

I cried 29 years ago at this at school. And again today when my son told me he watched in in class 😔

[islandmama]

When I was a child, this story would always be shown on tv during Christmas time. I always looked forward to this and even though I cried everytime I still looked forward to it. I Guess even as a child I understood compassion.

[boonhowteo]

When a star falls, a soul goes up to God, she died there and then.

[flurryisland]

when we went to Denmark we whent to H.C.'s house and we decided to read some of his stories and my dad read this one and by the end of it we were all crying including my dad whom i had never seen cry before

[friskasmaniacalabomination]

The fact that I can still watch this with full engagement when I am an adult shows how well written and tragic this story is

[braylenjames]

If hc anderson made it you know its sad as hell

[jaimeeasunmanzo]

had this book as a kid, and never forgot about it, even made an illustrated story of it when i was in 8th grade. unfortunately i lost both the illustration and the book itself. idk why i suddenly thought about this story tho :((( still makes me sad, and wonder why it stuck to me after all these years.