The NeverEnding Story
1984 · Movie · 94 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
The German Wolfgang Petersen (Das Boot, In the Line of Fire) made his first English-language film with this 1984 fantasy about a boy (Barret Oliver) visualizing the stories of a book he's reading. The imagined tale involves another boy, a warrior (Noah Hathaway), and his efforts to save the empire of Fantasia from a nemesis called the Nothing. Whether or not the scenario sticks in the memory, what does linger are the unique effects, which are not quite like anything else. Plenty of good fairy-tale characters and memorable scenes, and the film even encourages kids to read the best-seller from Michael Ende.
Direction Wolfgang Petersen
Cast Barret Oliver · Noah Hathaway · Moses Gunn · Tami Stronach · Patricia Hayes · Sydney Bromley · Thomas Hill · Deep Roy
Soundtrack Giorgio Moroder · Klaus Doldinger
Screenplay Wolfgang Petersen · Herman Weigel · Michael Ende
Cinematography Jost Vacano
Original title Die unendliche Geschichte (The Neverending Story)
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