The Tale of the Fox (1930)

Original title

Le Roman de Renard

Directed by

Ladislas Starevich

Genre

fairy tale, satire, cinematic fairy tale

Country

France

Runtime

1h 05m

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 62 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This stop-motion animated film tells the story of Renard, a clever fox who uses trickery in a series of adventures. It is based on medieval European fables about the fox.

whimsicalsatiricalplayfulclassicstorybook-likelivelyhistoricallighthearted

What happens

The Tale of the Fox (French: Le Roman de Renard; Dutch: Van den vos Reynaerde; German: Reineke Fuchs) was stop-motion animation pioneer Ladislas Starevich's first fully animated feature film. The film is based on the tales of Renard the Fox. Although the animation was finished in Paris after an 18-month period (1929–1930), there were major problems with adding a soundtrack to the film. Finally, funding was given for a German soundtrack by the UFA—Goethe had written a classic version of the Renard legend—and this version had its premiere in Berlin in April 1937. Released eight months before Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, it is the world's eighth-ever animated feature film (and the third surviving animated film, as well as the second to use puppet animation, following The New Gulliver from the USSR). The film was released in France with a French language soundtrack in 1941; this is the version which is currently available on DVD. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

More like this

• Renart the Fox (2005)
• Little Red Riding Hood (1930)
• The King and the Mockingbird (1980)
• Fox Hunt (1936)
• Blue Beard (1936)
• Sleeping Beauty (1935)
• The Fox and the Wolf (1936)
• Fétiche (1933)