The NeverEnding Story (movie)
The NeverEnding Story (German: Die Unendliche Geschichte) is a 1984 English-language West German fantasy movie co-written and directed by Wolfgang Petersen. It is based on the 1979 novel The Neverending Story by Michael Ende.
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| Directed by | Wolfgang Petersen |
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| Based on | The Neverending Story by |
| Produced by | Bernd Eichinger Dieter Geissler |
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| Cinematography | Jost Vacano |
| Edited by | Jane Seitz |
| Music by | Klaus Doldinger Giorgio Moroder |
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| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
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Running time | 94 minutes[1] |
| Countries | West Germany United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | DM 60 million (~US$25–27 million) |
| Box office | US$100 million |
It stars Noah Hathaway, Barret Oliver, Tami Stronach, Patricia Hayes, Sydney Bromley, Gerald McRaney and Moses Gunn, with Alan Oppenheimer. It is about a boy finds a magical book about a young warrior who is given the job of stopping the Nothing, a dark force, from destroying the wonderland world of Fantasia.
When the movie came out, it was the most expensive movie produced outside the United States or the Soviet Union. The movie was the first in The NeverEnding Story movie series.[2] Two more movies were made, The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter (1990) and The NeverEnding Story III: Escape from Fantasia (1994).
The NeverEnding Story theme song was recorded by Limahl.[3]
