The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962)

Directed by

George Pal, Henry Levin

Genre

fantasy film, biographical film, musical film, children's film

Country

United States

Runtime

2h 18m

Rated

G

Rating

5.9 of 10 from 35 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The movie tells the story of the Brothers Grimm and mixes their real lives with some of their fairy tales. It shows them struggling to write stories while also imagining the magical adventures that would become their famous works.

whimsicalnostalgiclightheartedgentlemagicalold-fashionedplayfulfamily-friendly

What happens

The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm is a 1962 American biographical fantasy film directed by Henry Levin and George Pal. The latter was the producer and also in charge of the stop motion animation. The film was one of the highest-grossing films of 1962. It won one Oscar and was nominated for three additional Academy Awards. The cast included several prominent actors—including Laurence Harvey, Karl Boehm, Jim Backus, Barbara Eden and Buddy Hackett. It was filmed in the Cinerama process, which was photographed in an arc with three lenses, on a camera that produced three strips of film. Three projectors, in the back and sides of the theatre, produced a panoramic image on a screen that curved 146 degrees around the front of the audience. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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