Hungarian Folk Tales (1980)

Original title

Magyar népmesék

Directed by

Lajos Nagy, Marcell Jankovics, Mária Horváth

Genre

family, animation

Country

Hungary

Length

9 seasons, 100 episodes

Rated

TV-Y

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 12 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This animated series adapts Hungarian folk tales. Each episode draws on the folk motifs of a different region of Hungary.

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What happens

Hungarian Folk Tales (Hungarian: Magyar népmesék, pronounced [ˈmɒɟɒr ˈneːpmɛʃeːk]) is a Hungarian animated series and one of the first and biggest successes of Pannonia Film Studio, based on studio head Ferenc Mikulás' original idea and directed by Marcell Jankovics. It originally played on television between 1980 and 2012. Episodes are based on Hungarian folk tales, and each one features the specific folk motives of a region of Hungary. The theme song and the score are composed by Kaláka, one of the best known Hungarian folk bands. A few episodes were dubbed into English and shown in the United States as part of Season 1 of the TV series Long Ago and Far Away in 1989. In 2017, all episodes were dubbed and published on YouTube, receiving over 19 million views by March 2021. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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