The Tale of the Fox (1941)
April 10, 1941Release Date
The Tale of the Fox (1941)
April 10, 1941Release Date
Plot.
Where to Watch.
This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Romain Bouquet
Fox
Sylvain Itkine
Wolf
Sylvia Bataille
Rabbit
Jaime Plama
Cat (singing)
Claude Dauphin
Monkey
Léon Larive
Bear
Nicolas Amato
Cat
Eddy Debray
Badger
Suzy Domac
Fox Cub
Robert Seller
Cock
Marcel Raine
Sire Noble
Suzy Dornac
Fox Cub
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Original Story
Vincent Scotto
Original Music Composer
Wladyslaw Starewicz
Director / Animation / Cinematography
Irene Starewicz
Screenplay / Director / Animation
Roger Richebé
Producer
Raymond Legrand
Music / Conductor
Antoinette Nordmann
Dialogue
Jean Nohain
Dialogue
Louis Nalpas
Producer
Media.
Details.
Release DateApril 10, 1941
Original NameLe Roman de Renard
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 5m
Box Office$2,094
Genres
Wiki.
The Tale of the Fox (French: Le Roman de Renard, Dutch: Van den vos Reynaerde, German: Reinecke Fuchs) was stop-motion animation pioneer Ladislas Starevich's first fully animated feature film. The film is based on the tales of Renard the Fox. Although the animation was finished in Paris after an 18-month period (1929–1930), there were major problems with adding a soundtrack to the film. Finally, funding was given for a German soundtrack by the UFA—Goethe had written a classic version of the Renard legend—and this version had its premiere in Berlin in April 1937.
Released eight months before Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, it is the world's sixth-ever animated feature film (and the third surviving animated film, as well as the second to use puppet animation, following The New Gulliver from the USSR). The film was released in France with a French language soundtrack in 1941; this is the version which is currently available on DVD.