Tales of the Night (1992)

Original title

Les Contes de la nuit

Directed by

Michel Ocelot

Genre

animation, tv movie

Country

France

Runtime

26 min

Rating

5.6 of 10 from 5 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is a French silhouette animation special that tells three fairy tales. Each story uses the same artistic style of shadow puppetry and follows characters in magical adventures.

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What happens

Tales of the Night (French: Les Contes de la nuit) is a 1992 French silhouette animation television special written and directed by Michel Ocelot. It aired on Canal+ in France, ZDF in Germany and Channel 4 in the United Kingdom. It is a trilogy of three further fairy tales in much the same format as Ciné si. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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