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The NeverEnding Story (1984)

The NeverEnding Story poster
Original title
Die unendliche Geschichte
Directed by
Wolfgang Petersen
Genre
drama film, fantasy film, children's film, sword and sorcery film
Country
Germany
Runtime
1h 34m
Rated
PG
Rating
7.2 of 10 from 4,418 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A lonely boy named Bastian discovers a mysterious book that pulls him into the fantasy world of Fantasia. He follows the quest of a young warrior trying to save that world from a dark force called the Nothing.

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What happens

The NeverEnding Story (German: Die unendliche Geschichte) is a 1984 fantasy film, co-written and directed by Wolfgang Petersen (in his first English-language film), based on the first half of the 1979 novel The Neverending Story by Michael Ende. It was produced by Bernd Eichinger and Dieter Geissler, and stars Noah Hathaway, Barret Oliver, Tami Stronach, Patricia Hayes, Sydney Bromley, Gerald McRaney and Moses Gunn, with Alan Oppenheimer providing the voices of Falkor, Gmork, and others. It follows Bastian Balthazar Bux, a boy who finds a magical book that tells of a young warrior who is given the task of stopping the Nothing, a dark force, from engulfing the wonderland world of Fantasia. It is the first in The NeverEnding Story film series. The second half of the book was adapted as a rough basis for the second film, The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter (1990). The third film, The NeverEnding Story III (1994), has an original plot not based on the book. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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