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Bookmark this pageThe NeverEnding Story (1984)
Director: Wolfgang Petersen
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From Time Out Film Guide
A fairytale of the very best kind, with luscious effects which include a flying dragon, a rock monster, a fairy princess (mercifully grave and untwee), and a threat in whose vanquishing lies hope. Made at Munich's Bavaria Studios, the film concerns a withdrawn schoolboy, ignored by his businessman father and bullied at school, who steals a book and finds himself in thrall to the point where he is called upon to enter its world and save the magic land of Fantasia. Adapted from the novel by Michael Ende, the film is a mix of German Romanticism (complete with Wagnerian sets and a score in part by Giorgio Moroder) and Syberberg by way of Disney, or perhaps vice versa. There are even moments of moralising which give the twin heroes' quest someting of the steely tone of a Pilgrim's Progress.Author: VG
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Cast & crew
Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Producer: Bernd Eichinger, Dieter Geissler
Cast: Barret Oliver, Noah Hathaway, Moses Gunn, Tami Stronach, Patricia Hayes, Sydney Bromley full cast
Genre(s): Children's
Duration: 94 mins
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