A young shepherdess and a chimneysweep plan to get married and escape the clutches of a tyrannical king in love with her, assisted by the guile of a cheeky mockingbird, the king's archenemy.
Writing
Wry narrator who openly despises the villain.
Production
Took 30 years to finish. Worth every frame.
Director
Paul Grimault
Jean Martin
L’oiseau (voice)
Renaud Marx
Le ramoneur (voice)
Pascal Mazzotti
Le roi (voice)
Albert Médina
Le belluaire / Le haut hurleur (voice)
Raymond Bussières
Le chef de la police (voice)
Roger Blin
L’aveugle (voice)
Claude Piéplu
Le maire du palais (voice)
Hubert Deschamps
Le sentencieux (voice)
Jacques Colombat
(Voice)
Lionel Charpy
(Voice)
Robert Lombard
(Voice)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Hayao Miyazaki cited this as a direct influence on Castle in the Sky—Grimault's robot scene is basically proto-Ghibli.
Grimault started in 1948, the studio shut it down, he stole the negatives back, and finished it illegally in 1980. Absolute legend behavior.
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