Cult movie: The NeverEnding Story (Die unendliche Geschichte)
German title: Die unendliche Geschichte Francaise title: L’histoire sans fin Spain title: La historia interminable Greek title: Ιστορία δίχως τέλος Russian title: Бесконечная история Original title: Die unendliche Geschichte
Alternative titles: A História Sem Fim | História Interminável | La historia interminable | La historia sin fin | Niekonczaca sie opowiesc | Den Oändliga historien | Päättymätön tarina | Ha-Sippur Sh’Eino Nigmar | La Storia infinita | Végtelen történet | Istoria dihos telos | Приказка без край
Fantasy adventure – FRG, USA Production year: 1983 Movie length: 103 minutes
Director: Wolfgang Petersen Writer: Wolfgang Petersen, Herman Weigel, Michael Ende, Robert Easton Cinematograph: Jost Vacano Music: Klaus Doldinger
Movie description:
Pursued by bullies, dreamy Bastian, nine years old, flees into a used book store where a strange leather-bound volume attracts him. The owner warns him away from it, explaining that it is dangerous: once entering its world, the reader cannot escape. Bastian borrows the now irresistable book and hides in the school attic. He reads of a beautiful, doomed land named Fantasia, and a brave boy desperately anointed by the princess to stop its mysterious ongoing destruction. Drawn into young Atreyu’s quest as with no other book, Bastian discovers astonished that the Fantasians hear Bastian scream and see Bastian in mirrors. Where is Fantasia, and where is he? Can Atreyu save Fantasia, or is the princess really summoning Bastian himself?
It’s set on Earth and in Fantasia, the land made from human imagination. When Bastian sees the book – »The Neverending Story« – he just has to have it. So he runs away with it and starts reading. Bit by bit he starts being drawn physically into the story until it emerges that he and only he can save the land from destruction. But is he strong enough?